raba

• IPA^(key): /ˈraba/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ba

rába m 

1. death

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Cognate to Finnish rapa (“dirt”). Most likely from Proto-Norse *draƀa-. Compare Swedish drav.

raba (genitive raba, partitive raba)

1. moor (region with poor, marshy soil, peat, and heath)

From Proto-Finnic *rapa, from Proto-Norse *draƀa-. Compare Swedish drav.

raba (genitive raba, partitive raba)

1. sediment left over after the creation of beer or kvass

From rabo (“turnip”).

• IPA^(key):

raba m (plural rabas)

1. turnip greens
2. a bait made with roe

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “raba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “raba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “raba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈraba/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ba
• Rhymes: -ba, -a

From Malay raba.

raba

1. to touch (make physical contact with)

   Synonym: jamah

   • 1949, Chairil Anwar, Mirat Muda, Chairil Muda:

     Mirat raba urut Chairil, raba dada
     Dan tahulah dia kini

     The mirror massages Chairil, touches his chest
     And now he knows

From Minangkabau raba.

raba

1. (dialect) angry

   Synonym: marah

• “raba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• rabba
• raiba, reba (uncommon)

From Arabic رَحْب (raḥb, “marketplace of grain”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ba/
• Rhymes: -aba
• Hyphenation: rà‧ba

raba f (plural rabe)

1. (historical) denoting:
2. (Sicily) a grain warehouse
3. (Genoa) a warehouse with a marketplace in front of it (the only allowed location for grain sale)
4. (Pisa) the fee paid by merchants in order to deposit their goods in public trading posts

• raba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• bara

raba

1. Rōmaji transcription of らば
2. Rōmaji transcription of ラバ

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈrapa/

raba

1. inflection of rahpat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

·raba

1. first-person singular perfect prototonic of at·tá

• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: ra‧ba
• Homophone: Raba

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

raba f

1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) Synonym of maciora (“sow”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

raba m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of rab

• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “raba”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 307

Variation of rabo.

raba f (plural rabas)

1. (informal, vulgar) ass, butt (the buttocks)

• IPA^(key): /ràːba/

rába f

1. use (act of using)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• IPA^(key):

raba

1. (transitive) to seize, confiscate

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Finnic *rapa.

raba

1. sediment
2. coffee grounds

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “гуща”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika