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rabab

English

Alternative forms

  • rebab

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (rab?b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???bæb/

Noun

rabab (plural rababs)

  1. An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 846:
      The hired musicians—rabab, hand drums, and ghärawnay, or Chinese flute—had learned “Kalinka” and “Ochi Chorniya”

Anagrams

  • Babar

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rebab

English

Alternative forms

  • rabab

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Ultimately from Arabic.”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???bæb/

Noun

rebab (plural rebabs)

  1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, related to the lute, used especially in Islamic countries
    • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 62:
      A last cricket scratched mournfully at its rebab.

Related terms

  • rebec

Translations

Anagrams

  • Baber, Ebarb, bebar

Romanian

Etymology

From French rébab.

Noun

rebab n (plural rebaburi)

  1. rebab

Declension

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