maraba

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

• IPA^(key): /má.ràː.bá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mə́.ràː.bə́]

mar̃ā̀ba

1. welcome!

• màr̃habìn

From rabā̀ (“divide”).

• IPA^(key): /má.ɽá.báː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mə́.ɽə́.báː]

marabā f (possessed form marabar̃)

1. difference (between two or more things)

From paraba (literally “stain, spot”).

maraba (possessable)

1. bastard (illegitimate descendant)

• → Portuguese: marabá (learned)

• Yves d’Évreux (1613–1614), chapter XXIII, in Suite de l'Histoire des Choses plus mémorables, advenuës en Maragnan és années 1613 et 1614, volume 1, part 1 (overall work in French), Paris: François Huby, published 1615, page 163: “Marap”
• Simão de Vasconcellos (1663), Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Livro primeiro (overall work in Portuguese), Lisboa: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 303, column 1: “Marabà”

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “maraba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 260, column 1

• IPA^(key): /maɾaˈba/

maraba (definite accusative marabayı, plural marabalar)

1. A sharecropper; a landless agricultural laborer who works on a landowner's field in exchange for a share of the crops.

• ırgat – laborer, field worker (more general)
• rençber – peasant, farmer

• marabalık – the condition or status of being a maraba