rabi

From Urdu ربیع‎ (rabī)/Hindi रबी (rabī), from Persian ربیع‎ (rabi'), from Arabic رَبِيع‎ (rabīʿ, “spring”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹabi/

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.

• “rabi” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
• “rabi” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
• “rabi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2019.

• kharif

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

rabi f

1. plural of ràbia

From German rauben, Polish rabować.

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

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

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

rabi (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

rabi

1. (dialectal) wife