raba

• IPA^(key): /ˈraba/ [ˈɾʌbʌ]
• Hyphenation: ra‧ba

rába m 

1. death

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Cognate to Finnish rapa (“dirt”). Most likely from Proto-Norse *draƀa-. Compare Swedish drav.

raba (genitive raba, partitive raba)

1. moor (region with poor, marshy soil, peat, and heath)

Declension of raba (ÕS type 17u/sõna, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		raba	rabad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	raba
genitive			rabade
partitive		raba	rabu rabasid
illative		rappa rabasse	rabadesse rabusse
inessive		rabas	rabades rabus
elative		rabast	rabadest rabust
allative		rabale	rabadele rabule
adessive		rabal	rabadel rabul
ablative		rabalt	rabadelt rabult
translative		rabaks	rabadeks rabuks
terminative		rabani	rabadeni
essive		rabana	rabadena
abessive		rabata	rabadeta
comitative		rabaga	rabadega

From Proto-Finnic *rapa, from Proto-Norse *draƀa-. Compare Swedish drav.

raba (genitive raba, partitive raba)

1. sediment left over after the creation of beer or kvass

Declension of raba (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		raba	rabad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	raba
genitive			rabade
partitive		raba	rabasid
illative		rappa rabasse	rabadesse
inessive		rabas	rabades
elative		rabast	rabadest
allative		rabale	rabadele
adessive		rabal	rabadel
ablative		rabalt	rabadelt
translative		rabaks	rabadeks
terminative		rabani	rabadeni
essive		rabana	rabadena
abessive		rabata	rabadeta
comitative		rabaga	rabadega

From rabo (“turnip”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈraβɐ]

raba m (plural rabas)

1. turnip greens
2. a bait made with roe

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “raba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “raba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “raba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈraba/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ba
• Rhymes: -ba, -a

From Malay raba.

raba

1. to touch (make physical contact with)

   Synonym: jamah

   • 1949, Chairil Anwar, Mirat Muda, Chairil Muda:

     Mirat raba urut Chairil, raba dada
     Dan tahulah dia kini

     The mirror massages Chairil, touches his chest
     And now he knows

From Minangkabau raba.

raba (comparative lebih raba, superlative paling raba)

1. (dialect) angry

   Synonym: marah

• “raba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• rabba
• raiba, reba (uncommon)

From Arabic رَحْب (raḥb, “marketplace of grain”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ba/
• Rhymes: -aba
• Hyphenation: rà‧ba

raba f (plural rabe)

1. (historical) denoting: [from 5th to 16th c.]
2. (Sicily) a grain warehouse
3. (Genoa) a warehouse with a marketplace in front of it (the only allowed location for grain sale)
4. (Pisa) the fee paid by merchants in order to deposit their goods in public trading posts

• raba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• bara

raba

1. Rōmaji transcription of らば
2. Rōmaji transcription of ラバ

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈrapa/

raba

1. inflection of rahpat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

·raba

1. first-person singular perfect prototonic of at·tá

• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: ra‧ba
• Homophone: Raba

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

raba f

1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) synonym of maciora (“sow”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

raba m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of rab

• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “raba”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 307

Variation of rabo.

raba f (plural rabas)

1. (informal, vulgar) ass, butt (the buttocks)

• IPA^(key): /ràːba/

rába f

1. use (act of using)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	rába
gen. sing.	rábe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	rába	rábi	rábe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	rábe	ráb	ráb
dative (dajȃlnik)	rábi	rábama	rábam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	rábo	rábi	rábe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	rábi	rábah	rábah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	rábo	rábama	rábami

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraba/ [ˈra.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: ra‧ba

raba f (plural rabas)

1. (Argentina, Basque Country, Cantabria, chiefly in the plural) deep-fried calamari

• “raba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English rubber.

raba class IX (plural raba class X)

1. running shoe, sneaker (shoe with rubber soles)
2. rubber, eraser

   Synonym: kifutio

3. (slang) condom

   Synonyms: kondomu, soksi

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾa.ba]

raba

1. (transitive) to seize, confiscate

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Finnic *rapa.

raba

1. sediment
2. coffee grounds

Inflection of raba (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	raba
genitive sing.	raban
partitive sing.	rabad
partitive plur.	—
	singular	plural
nominative	raba	—
accusative	raban	—
genitive	raban	—
partitive	rabad	—
essive-instructive	raban	—
translative	rabaks	—
inessive	rabas	—
elative	rabaspäi	—
illative	rabaha	—
adessive	rabal	—
ablative	rabalpäi	—
allative	rabale	—
abessive	rabata	—
comitative	rabanke	—
prolative	rabadme	—
approximative I	rabanno	—
approximative II	rabannoks	—
egressive	rabannopäi	—
terminative I	rabahasai	—
terminative II	rabalesai	—
terminative III	rabassai	—
additive I	rabahapäi	—
additive II	rabalepäi	—

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “гуща”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika