different between zebec vs rebec

English

Noun

zebec (plural zebecs)

1. Alternative spelling of xebec.

English

Etymology

From Middle French rebec, alteration of rubebe, from Arabic ??????? (rab?b).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?b?k/, /???b?k/

Noun

rebec (plural rebecs)

1. (music) An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     The villages also must have their visitors to enquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebbeck reads ev'n to the ballatry, and the gammuth of every municipal fidler, for these are the Countrymans Arcadia's and his Monte Mayors.

Derived terms

• rebecist

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• BEREC

Catalan

Adjective

rebec (feminine rebeca, masculine plural rebecs, feminine plural rebeques)

1. rebellious, unruly, disobedient

Derived terms

• rebequeria

Further reading

• “rebec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rebec” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “rebec” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rebec” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Noun

rebec

1. (music) rebec

Declension

French

Etymology

From Middle French rebec, ultimately from from Arabic ??????? (rab?b). Compare Italian ribeca.

Noun

rebec m (plural rebecs)

1. rebec

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rubebe, ultimately from Arabic ??????? (rab?b).

Noun

rebec m (plural rebecs)

1. rebec

Romanian

Etymology

From French rebec.

Noun

rebec n (plural rebecuri)

1. rebec

Declension