raba

Afar

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rába m 

1. death

References

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

Estonian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

raba (genitive raba, partitive raba)

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

Declension

Etymology 2

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

Noun

raba (genitive raba, partitive raba)

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

Declension

Galician

Etymology

From rabo (“turnip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

raba m (plural rabas)

1. turnip greens
2. a bait made with roe

References

• “raba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “raba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “raba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Malay raba.

Verb

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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Minangkabau raba.

Adjective

raba

1. (dialect) angry

   Synonym: marah

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Italian

Alternative forms

• rabba
• raiba, reba (uncommon)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bara

Japanese

Romanization

raba

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

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈrapa/

Verb

raba

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

Old Irish

Verb

·raba

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ba/
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: ra‧ba

Noun

raba m

1. genitive/accusative singular of rab

Portuguese

Etymology

Variation of rabo.

Noun

raba f (plural rabas)

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

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ràːba/

Noun

rába f

1. use (act of using)

Inflection

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.

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

raba

1. (transitive) to seize, confiscate

Conjugation

References

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

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rapa.

Noun

raba

1. sediment
2. coffee grounds

Inflection

References

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