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English

Etymology

From Urdu ????? (rab?)/Hindi ??? (rab?), from Persian ????? (rabi'), from Arabic ??????? (rab??, “spring”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??abi/

Noun

rabi (plural rabis)

1. (South Asia) Spring. [from 18th c.]
2. (South Asia) The spring harvest. [from 19th c.]
   • 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 2013, p. 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.

References

• “rabi”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “rabi”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “rabi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.

See also

• kharif

Anagrams

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

Emilian

Noun

rabi f

1. plural of ràbia

Esperanto

Etymology

From German rauben, Polish rabowa?.

Pronunciation

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

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

Estonian

Noun

rabi (genitive rabi, partitive rabi)

1. rabbi (Jewish teacher or leader of a congregation)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• rabi in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rabi]
• Hyphenation: ra?bi

Etymology 1

From Arabic ??????? (rabb?, “my God”).

Noun

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

1. my God.

Etymology 2

From (post-Tanakh) Hebrew ??????? (rabbi, “my master”), from ???? (rav, “master [of]”) +? ??? (-i, “me”).

Noun

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.

Further reading

• “rabi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Noun

rabi

1. (dialectal) wife

Middle English

Noun

rabi

1. Alternative form of raby

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

rabi (Cyrillic spelling ????)

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

Welsh

Etymology

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

Noun

rabi m (plural rabiniaid or rabïaid, not mutable)

1. (Judaism) rabbi

English

Etymology 1

Yapese [Term?]

Noun

rai (countable and uncountable, plural rai)

1. stone money

Etymology 2

Noun

rai (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of raï (“musical style”)

Anagrams

• 'air, ARI, Ari, IAR, IRA, Ira, RIA, air, ria

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raj/

Noun

rai (Bengali script ???? or ???)

1. reed

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Old French rai, from Latin radius.

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?raj/

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. raft

Interjection

rai

1. that's of no importance
2. tu rai!, don't worry!
3. això rai!, no problem!

Usage notes

• It is a particle that it is always put after another word (noun, pronoun, infinitive, etc) to make a complete proposition without verb in form of exclamation indicating that a thing does not matter, is the evidence out of the case treated or that it is presupposed.

Fijian

Noun

rai

1. sight

Verb

rai

1. to see

French

Etymology

From Old French rai, inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of radius, a borrowing. Unrelated to raie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray, beam (of light etc.)

   Synonym: rayon

2. spoke (of wheel)

Derived terms

• rayon

Related terms

• radiation
• radieux
• irradier

Further reading

• “rai” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• air, ira

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin radius.

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray, beam
2. spoke
3. radius

Hausa

Noun

râi m (plural r?yuk??, possessed form râin)

1. life
2. spirit, mind
3. hope, salvation
4. prosperity

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan rai. Doublet of raggio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rai?/, [r?äi?]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Hyphenation: rài

Noun

rai m pl (plural only)

1. (literary) rays
2. (literary, figuratively) looks
3. (literary, figuratively) eyes

Anagrams

• ari, ira, rià

References

• rai in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) , “rai”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

Japanese

Romanization

rai

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ???

Noun

rai (krama-ngoko rai, krama inggil pasuryan)

1. face

   Synonyms: dhapur, muka, rupa, wajah

References

• "rai" in Tim Balai Bahasa Yogyakarta, Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa). Kanisius, Yogyakarta

Kavalan

Noun

rai

1. mussel

Malay

Noun

rai

1. rye

Maori

Noun

rai

1. rye

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rai, from Latin radius (“spoke”).

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. (Jersey, cycling, etc.) spoke

Old French

Etymology

From Latin r?dius.

Noun

rai m (oblique plural rais, nominative singular rais, nominative plural rai)

1. beam; ray (of light)

Descendants

• Bourguignon: rai
• ? English: ray
• French: rai
• Norman: rai

Romanian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic ??? (raj), from Proto-Slavic *raj?, borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-European *reh?ís (“wealth, goods”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raj/

Noun

rai n (plural raiuri)

1. eden
2. paradise

Declension

See also

• paradis, cer

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) retg
• (Surmiran) rètg
• (Puter) raig

Etymology

From Latin r?x, r?gem, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r??s (“ruler, king”).

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. (Vallader) king

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English ride.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rai/, [?rai?]

Noun

rai m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador) ride

   dar rai

   Synonyms: aventón, (Spain) vuelta en coche

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (ra?y).

Pronunciation

Noun

rai (n class, plural rai)

1. opinion, view

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ??? (raj).

Noun

rai

1. paradise, heaven

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rai?/

Determiner

rai

1. Soft mutation of rhai.

Mutation