different between father vs rabbi

English

Etymology

From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fä'th?(r), IPA^(key): /?f??ð?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: fä'th?r, IPA^(key): /?f?ð?/
• (General Australian) enPR: fä'th?, IPA^(key): /?fa?ð?/
• (obsolete) enPR: f?'th?r, IPA^(key): /?fæð??/
• Homophone: farther (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??ð?(r)
• Hyphenation: fa?ther

Noun

father (plural fathers)

1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
6. The founder of a discipline or science.

7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
   • 1991, The Nairobi Law Monthly:

     Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]

   • 2002, Financial Management:

     "If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment."

   • 2012, Zubairu Wai, Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone, Palgrave Macmillan: (?ISBN), page 93:

     “The Father of All Battles”

     On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]

8. Something inanimate that begets.

Synonyms

• (parent): see Thesaurus:father
• (most significant thing): see mother and granddaddy

Antonyms

• (with regards to gender) mother
• (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child

Hypernyms

• (a male parent): parent

Derived terms

Related terms

• Father
• Jupiter
• paternal

Translations

Verb

father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)

1. To be a father to; to sire.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI v 4

     Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.

2. (figuratively) To give rise to.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ii 2

     Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.

3. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline iv 2

     Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.

4. To provide with a father.
5. To adopt as one's own.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.

     Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.

Translations

See also

• beget
• grandpa
• pater
• paternal
• sire

Anagrams

• afther, fareth, hafter, trefah

Middle English

Noun

father

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of fader

English

Alternative forms

• rabbin (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English raby, from Ecclesiastical Latin rabbi, and its source Koine Greek ????? (rhabbí), from (post-Tanakh) Hebrew ??????? (rabbi, “my master”), from ???? (rav, “master [of]”) +? ??? (-i, “me”). Compare late Old English rabbi.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??æ.ba?/

Noun

rabbi (plural rabbis)

1. A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.
2. A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.
3. (law enforcement, slang) A senior officer who acts as a mentor.

Related terms

• rav, rabbeinu, rebbe, reb, rebbetzin

Translations

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (rabb?, literally “my lord”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?i/

Noun

rábbi m 

1. god
2. God

   Synonym: yálla

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin rabbi, from Koine Greek ????? (rhabbí), from Hebrew ??????? (rabbi, “my master”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ra.bi/

Noun

rabbi anim

1. (Judaism) rabbi

   Synonym: errabino

Declension

Further reading

• “rabbi” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “rabbi” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Dutch

Etymology

From Late Latin rabbi, and its source Koine Greek ????? (rhabbí), from (post-biblical) Hebrew ???? (rabbi, “my master”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.bi/
• Hyphenation: rab?bi

Noun

rabbi m (plural rabbi's, diminutive rabbietje n)

1. (Judaism) rabbi

Synonyms

• rabbijn

Finnish

Noun

rabbi

1. rabbi

Declension

Synonyms

• rabbiini

Anagrams

• barbi

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin rabbi, from Ancient Greek ????? (rhabbí), from Hebrew ??????? (rabí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?b?i]
• Hyphenation: rab?bi
• Rhymes: -bi

Noun

rabbi (plural rabbik)

1. (Judaism) rabbi

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• rabbi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Noun

rabbi

1. indefinite dative singular of rabb

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin rabb?, from Ancient Greek ????? (rhabbí, literally “O my Master”), from Hebrew ???? (rabb?, “rabbi”, “spiritual teacher”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rab.bi/
• Rhymes: -abbi
• Hyphenation: ràb?bi

Noun

rabbi m

1. rabbi

Related terms

• rabbino

Latin

Alternative forms

• R. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????? (rhabbí, literally “O my Master”), from Hebrew ???? (rab?, “rabbi”, “spiritual teacher”), from ??? (ra?, “master”) +? ??? (-?, “of mine”, “my”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?rab.bi?/, [?räb?i?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?rab.bi/, [?r?b?i]

Noun

rabb? m (indeclinable)

1. (Late Latin, chiefly used as an honorific) Master, Doctor, and especially Rabbi

Related terms

• rabinus

Descendants

• ? Catalan: rabí
• ? Dutch: rabbi
• ? Finnish: rabbi
• ? German: Rabbi
• ? Hungarian: rabbi
• ? Irish: raibí
• ? Maltese: rabbi
• ? Middle English: raby, rabi, rabby
  • English: rabbi
  • Scots: rabbi
• ? Welsh: rabbi
• ? Late Latin: rabbinus, rabinus
  • ? Albanian: rabin
  • ? Asturian: rabín
  • ? Belarusian: ????? (rabin)
  • ? Czech: rabín
  • ? Danish: rabbiner
  • ? Dutch: rabbijn
  • ? English: rabbin
  • ? Finnish: rabbiini
  • ? French: rabbin
  • ? Galician: rabino
  • ? Georgian: ?????? (rabini)
  • ? German: Rabbiner
  • ? Italian: rabbino
    • ? Bulgarian: ????? (ravin)
    • ? Greek: ???????? (ravvínos)
    • ? Russian: ?????? (ravvin)
      • ? Azerbaijani: ravvin
      • ? Crimean Tatar: ravvin
      • ? Kazakh: ?????? (ravvïn)
      • ? Kyrgyz: ?????? (ravvin)
      • ? Uzbek: ravvin
  • ? Latvian: rab?ns
  • ? Lithuanian: rabinas
  • ? Macedonian: ????? (rabin)
  • ? Norwegian: rabbiner
  • ? Polish: rabin
  • ? Romanian: rabin
  • ? Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ?????

    Latin: rabin

  • ? Slovak: rabín
  • ? Slovene: rabin
  • ? Spanish: rabino
    • ? Tagalog: rabino
  • ? Swedish: rabbin
  • ? Vilamovian: raobin

References

• rabbi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,309/1

Welsh

Etymology

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

Noun

rabbi m (plural rabiniaid or rabïaid, not mutable)

1. Alternative spelling of rabi