ريباس

Arabic

ريباس – Rheum ribes

ريباس – Ribes rubrum

Alternative forms

• رِيبَاج (rībāj)

Etymology

From Persian ریواس (rivâs), ریباس (ribâs), ریواج (rivâj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riː.baːs/

Noun

رِيبَاس • (rībās) m

1. Syrian rhubarb (Rheum ribes)
2. currant (Ribes gen. et spp.)

   Synonym: كِشْمِش (kišmiš)

   Hyponyms: عِنَب الذِئْب (ʕinab aḏ-ḏiʔb), عِنَب الثَعْلَب (ʕinab aṯ-ṯaʕlab), كِشْمِش أَسْوَد (kišmiš ʔaswad)

Declension

Declension of noun رِيبَاس (rībās)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	رِيبَاس rībās	الرِّيبَاس ar-rībās	رِيبَاس rībās
Nominative	رِيبَاسٌ rībāsun	الرِّيبَاسُ ar-rībāsu	رِيبَاسُ rībāsu
Accusative	رِيبَاسًا rībāsan	الرِّيبَاسَ ar-rībāsa	رِيبَاسَ rībāsa
Genitive	رِيبَاسٍ rībāsin	الرِّيبَاسِ ar-rībāsi	رِيبَاسِ rībāsi

Descendants

• → Old Catalan: arrivez
• → Medieval Latin: ribes, ribesium
  • → Danish: ribs
    • → Icelandic: rifs
  • → German: Ribisel (see there for further descendants)
  • → Italian: ribes
    • → Mòcheno: ribes
  • → Norwegian: rips
  • → Translingual: Ribes

References

• كشمش on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• ريباس on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 357–358
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ريباس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 513