rabba

rab +‎ -ba

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: rab‧ba

rabba

1. illative singular of rab

• IPA^(key): /ˈrapːa/
• Rhymes: -apːa

rabba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rabbaði, supine rabbað)

1. (intransitive) to chat, to make small talk

   Synonym: masa

• rabb (“chit-chat, small talk”)

From Arabic رَبَّى (rabbā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrab.ba/
• Homophone: rabba’ (except archaically)

rabba (imperfect jrabbi, past participle mrobbi, verbal noun trobbija)

1. to bring up, rear, raise, educate (a child)

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rabba (singular past indicative rabbaði, plural past indicative rabbaðu, past participle rabbaðr)

1. to mumble

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• “rabba”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Likely an alteration of the second element of kålrabbi, from German Kohlrabi, from Italian cavolo rapa, doublet of rova.

• IPA^(key): /²raba/

rabba c

1. (Scania) rutabaga, swede

• kålrot (standard Swedish)

• rabbemos

• Rotabagge, rabba och stönja. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 1 November 2017.
• rabba in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)