רבי
Aramaic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
רִבִּי • (ribbī) m (plural רבנא)
Descendants edit
- → Ancient Greek: ῥαββί (rhabbí) (see there for further descendants)
Hebrew edit
Etymology edit
רַב (ráv, “master”) + ־י (-i, “my”)
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
רַבִּי • (rabí) m
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: رَابِي (rābī)
- Tunisian Arabic: ربّي (rǝbbi)
- → Armenian: րաբբի (rabbi)
- → Chinese: 拉比 (lābǐ)
- → English: rabbi
- → Hindi: रबी (rabī)
- → Japanese: ラビ (rabi)
- → Korean: 랍비 (rapbi)
- → Persian: ربی (rabi)
- → Punjabi: ਰੱਬੀ (rabbī)
- → Urdu: ربی (rabī)
- → Yiddish: רבי (rebe)
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Yiddish edit
Etymology edit
From Hebrew and Aramaic רבי (“rabbi, spiritual teacher”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
רבי • (rebe) m, plural רביס (rebes) or רביים (rabeyem), accusative and dative רבין (rebn)
- (historical or Hasidic) rabbi
- איינער האָט ליב דעם רבין און דער אַנדערער די רביצין.
- eyner hot lib dem rebn un der anderer di rebetsin.
- One man loves the rabbi and the other one loves the rebbetzin.
Usage notes edit
- This is one of the few Yiddish nouns that decline. The accusative and dative are both רבין (rebn).