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 (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 (comparative lebih raba, superlative paling 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.

Unknown.

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

raba f (plural rabas)

1. (Argentina, Basque Country, Cantabria, chiefly in the plural) deep-fried calamari

• “raba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , December 10 2024

Borrowed from English rubber.

raba class IX (plural raba class X)

1. running shoe, sneaker (shoe with rubber soles)
2. rubber, eraser

   Synonym: kifutio

3. (slang) condom

   Synonyms: kondomu, soksi

• 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 ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika