rebec
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French rebec, alteration of rubebe (see English ribibe), from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb).
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Noun edit
rebec (plural rebecs)
- (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, Areopagitica:
- 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.
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Translations edit
stringed instrument
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain.
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Adjective edit
rebec (feminine rebeca, masculine plural rebecs, feminine plural rebeques)
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Further reading edit
- “rebec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rebec”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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 edit
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rebec
Declension edit
Inflection of rebec (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | rebec | rebecit | ||
genitive | rebecin | rebecien | ||
partitive | rebeciä | rebecejä | ||
illative | rebeciin | rebeceihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | rebec | rebecit | ||
accusative | nom. | rebec | rebecit | |
gen. | rebecin | |||
genitive | rebecin | rebecien | ||
partitive | rebeciä | rebecejä | ||
inessive | rebecissä | rebeceissä | ||
elative | rebecistä | rebeceistä | ||
illative | rebeciin | rebeceihin | ||
adessive | rebecillä | rebeceillä | ||
ablative | rebeciltä | rebeceiltä | ||
allative | rebecille | rebeceille | ||
essive | rebecinä | rebeceinä | ||
translative | rebeciksi | rebeceiksi | ||
abessive | rebecittä | rebeceittä | ||
instructive | — | rebecein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French rebec, ultimately from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb). Compare Italian ribeca.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rebec m (plural rebecs)
Further reading edit
- “rebec”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French rubebe, ultimately from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb).
Noun edit
rebec m (plural rebecs)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
rebec n (plural rebecuri)
Declension edit
Declension of rebec
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) rebec | rebecul | (niște) rebecuri | rebecurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) rebec | rebecului | (unor) rebecuri | rebecurilor |
vocative | rebecule | rebecurilor |