different between rebar vs rebab

English

Etymology 1

Blend of reinforcing +? bar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?.b??(?)/

Noun

rebar (countable and uncountable, plural rebars)

1. (countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.
2. (uncountable) A grid-shaped system of such bars.

Translations

Verb

rebar (third-person singular simple present rebars, present participle rebarring, simple past and past participle rebarred)

1. (transitive) To reinforce with bars of this kind.

Etymology 2

re- +? bar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i??b??(?)/

Verb

rebar (third-person singular simple present rebars, present participle rebarring, simple past and past participle rebarred)

1. (transitive) To bar again.

   After allowing the stranger to enter, she rebarred the door.

2. (music, transitive) To redistribute the notes of a musical score across the bars, e.g. when changing time signature.

Anagrams

• Barre, Berra, Raber, aberr, arber, barer, barre, berra

Latin

Verb

r?bar

1. first-person singular imperfect active indicative of reor

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