rabi

Borrowed from Hindustani ربیع (rabī) / रबी (rabī), from Persian ربیع (rabi'), from Arabic رَبِيع (rabīʕ, “spring”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹabi/

rabi (plural rabis)

1. (South Asia) Spring.
2. (South Asia) The spring harvest.
   • c. 1885, A.L.O.E, The Wondrous Sickle:

     ...I made out that he would be here before the rabi harvest is ripe; the corn is green enough yet, but I thought that after work I would come over here to meet him.

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 120:

     The monsoon had failed at the beginning but picked up very well later, so the rabi crop would be just fine and the wars they mentioned had taken place a year and a half ago.

• kharif

• “rabi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “rabi”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “rabi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

• Abir, Bair, Bari, Bria, RAIB, RIBA, abir, abri, bari, riba

rabi f

1. plural of ràbia

From German rauben, Polish rabować. Compare English rob. Doublet of robo.

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• Rhymes: -abi
• Hyphenation: ra‧bi

rabi (present rabas, past rabis, future rabos, conditional rabus, volitive rabu)

1. (transitive) to take from someone by force or threat, to rob

Conjugation of rabi

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		rabas		rabis		rabos
active participle		rabanta	rabantaj	rabinta	rabintaj	rabonta	rabontaj
	acc.	rabantan	rabantajn	rabintan	rabintajn	rabontan	rabontajn
passive participle		rabata	rabataj	rabita	rabitaj	rabota	rabotaj
	acc.	rabatan	rabatajn	rabitan	rabitajn	rabotan	rabotajn
nominal active participle		rabanto	rabantoj	rabinto	rabintoj	rabonto	rabontoj
	acc.	rabanton	rabantojn	rabinton	rabintojn	rabonton	rabontojn
nominal passive participle		rabato	rabatoj	rabito	rabitoj	raboto	rabotoj
	acc.	rabaton	rabatojn	rabiton	rabitojn	raboton	rabotojn
adverbial active participle		rabante		rabinte		rabonte
adverbial passive participle		rabate		rabite		rabote

infinitive		rabi						imperative		rabu						conditional		rabus

• rabaĵo (“something acquired by robbery”)
• rabinto (“robber (one who has committed a robbery)”)
• rabisto (“robber (one who makes a living by robbery)”)
• rabo (“a robbery”)

• ŝteli (“to steal”)

From German Rabbi, ultimately from Hebrew רבי (rabī, “my master”).

rabi (genitive rabi, partitive rabi)

1. rabbi

• rabi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• “rabi”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

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• Hyphenation: ra‧bi

From Arabic رَبِّي (rabbī, “my God”), رَبّ (rabb, “God, Lord”, literally “master, lord, king, sovereign”), from Proto-Semitic *rabb-.

rabi (first-person possessive rabiku, second-person possessive rabimu, third-person possessive rabinya)

1. my God.

From (post-Tanakh) Hebrew רַבִּי (rabbi, “my master”), from רַב (rav, “master ”) +‎ ־י (-i, “me”), from Proto-Semitic *rabb-.

rabi (plural rabi-rabi, first-person possessive rabiku, second-person possessive rabimu, third-person possessive rabinya)

1. rabbi, a Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions, who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.

• “rabi” 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.

rabi

1. (dialectal) wife

rabi

1. Alternative form of raby

rabi (Cyrillic spelling раби)

1. inflection of rabiti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

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rabi

1. nominative plural of rab

Borrowed from Spanish rabí.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾaˈbi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ra‧bi

rabí (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜊᜒ)

1. rabbi

   Synonym: rabino

• bira, abri

• rabbi

Borrowed from Latin rabbi, from Ancient Greek ῥαββί (rhabbí), from Hebrew רַבִּי (rabbî).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrabi/

rabi m (plural rabiniaid or rabïaid, not mutable)

1. (Judaism) rabbi