rabe

See also: Rabe and råbe

English

Etymology

Back-formation from broccoli rabe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɑːb/, enPR: räb

Noun

rabe (countable and uncountable, plural rabes)

  1. The budding shoot of a brassica that has bolted.
    • 2014, Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane, page 254:
      Coal-roasted kale rabe, garlic and chili with pickled ginger, and caramelized ham broth. . . What more can I say?
    • 2017, Joshua McFadden, Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, page 313:
      Brassicas will bolt in early fall, too, [] While these skinny shoots topped with tiny clusters of florets—and eventually blooming flowers—might look rangy, [] I eat them raw in salad or I give them a quick sauté. While the flavor of a rabe echoes the plant, any spiciness or bitterness is generally softer.
    • 2019, Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall, David Chase, The Sopranos Sessions:
      The Last of the Arugula Rabe
    • 2021, Peter Hoffman, What's Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients:
      Microgreens are examples of this desire for new life in our diet also and explain why so many chefs adorn their dishes with them. Sadly though, they are little more than eye candy. Coming from greenhouses, often hydroponically grown, they lack the true taste of life from out of doors soil. But Kenny's rabe stems are the stars on the plate, sweet and tender. I make an entire meal out of a bunch of rabe sautéed in flavorful olive oil with a lot of garlic and a liberal sprinkling of chile pepper flakes.
  2. Broccoli rabe.
    • 2009, Matthew Kenney, Entertaining in the Raw, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 70:
      Wrapapers
      4 young Thai coconuts
      Filling and Rabe
      2 cups shiitake mushrooms, quartered
      [] 2 cups broccoli rabe, cut into 2-inch lengths
    • 2010, Anthony Di Renzo, Bitter Greens, page 96:
      Profiled by Sarah Di Gregorio in The Village Voice, Fratelli's is famous for its broccoli rabe specialties. A rabe hero glistens with a sheen of olive oil and comes on a soft roll, studded with golden-brown garlic cloves. A rabe-stuffed calzone steams and bursts. Penne and braised rabe somersault in a frying pan. A white pizza, topped with rabe florets, is placed on a wooden peel and shoved into a crowded oven.
    • 2011, Brooke Parkhurst, James Briscione, Just Married and Cooking: 200 Recipes for Living, Eating, and Entertaining Together, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 54:
      For good measure, give your plate of ricotta and rabe a final drizzle of fruity, super-high-quality extra virgin olive oil.
      serves 4 to 6
      1 bunch broccoli rabe
    • 2013, Rachael Ray, Week in a Day, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 303:
      Pork & Broccoli Rabe Ciabatta Subs with Gremolata
      There are two different make-ahead strategies possible with this [] Option 2: You can cook the pork and rabe ahead and reheat on the night of (you'll need some chicken stock []
    • 2020, Charlotte Druckman, Kitchen Remix: 75 Recipes for Making the Most of Your Ingredients: A Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 78:
      Use your hands (or paper towel) to squeeze out excess water, then roughly chop. Add the rabe to the orecchiette. Add the pine nuts and stir to combine with the orecchiette and rabe.

Alternative forms

Anagrams

Afar

Etymology

Cognate with Saho rabe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raˈbe/ [ɾʌˈbɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ra‧be

Verb

rabé

  1. (intransitive) die
    • 2006, “Ruut 1:4-5 [Ruth 1:4-5]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎[1]:
      Tabna sanatak lakal Maclon kee Kilyon kaadu rabteh.
      After ten years, Mahlon and Kilion also died.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of rabe (type II verb)
1st singular 2nd singular 3rd singular 1st plural 2nd plural 3rd plural
m f
perfective V-affirmative rabéh rabtéh rabéh rabtéh rabnéh rabteeníh rabeeníh
N-affirmative rabé rabté rabé rabté rabné rabtén rabén
negative márabinniyo márabinnito márabinna márabinna márabinnino márabinniton márabinnon
imperfective V-affirmative rabáh rabtáh rabáh rabtáh rabnáh rabtaanáh rabaanáh
N-affirmative rabá rabtá rabá rabtá rabná rabtán rabán
negative máraba márabta máraba márabta márabna márabtan máraban
prospective V-affirmative rabéliyoh
rabéyyoh
rabélitoh
rabéttoh
rabéleh rabéleh rabélinoh
rabénnoh
rabélitoonuh
rabéttoonuh
rabéloonuh
N-affirmative rabéliyo
rabéyyo
rabélito
rabétto
rabéle rabéle rabélino
rabénno
rabéliton
rabétton
rabélon
conjunctive I V-affirmative rábuh rábtuh rábuh rábtuh rábuh rabtóonuh rabóonuh
N-affirmative rábu rábtu rábu rábtu rábu rabtón rabón
negative rabé wáyuh rabé wáytuh rabé wáyuh rabé wáytuh rabé wáynuh rabé waytóonuh rabé wóonuh
conjunctive II V-affirmative rabánkeh rabtánkeh rabánkeh rabtánkeh rabnánkeh rabtaanánkeh rabaanánkeh
N-affirmative rabánke rabtánke rabánke rabtánke rabnánke rabtaanánke rabaanánke
negative rabé wáankeh rabé waytánkeh rabé wáankeh rabé waytánkeh rabé waynánkeh rabé waytaanánkeh rabé wáankeh
jussive affirmative rábay rábtay rábay rábtay rábnay rabtóonay rabóonay
negative rabé wáay rabé wáytay rabé wáay rabé wáytay rabé wáynay rabé waytóonay rabé wóonay
past
conditional
affirmative rabinniyóy rabinnitóy rabinnáy rabinnáy rabinninóy rabinnitoonúy rabinnoonúy
negative rabé wanniyóy rabé wannitóy rabé wannáy rabé wannáy rabé wanninóy rabé wannitoonúy rabé wanninoonúy
present
conditional I
affirmative rabék rabték rabék rabték rabnék rabteeník rabeeník
negative rabé wéek rabé wayték rabé wéek rabé wayték rabé waynék rabé wayteeník rabé weeník
singular plural singular plural
consultative affirmative rabóo rabnóo imperative affirmative ráb rába
negative marabóo marabnóo negative márabin márabina
-h converb -i form -k converb -in(n)uh converb -innuk converb infinitive indefinite participle
V-focus N-focus
rábah rábi rábak rabínnuh rabínnuk rabíyya rabináanih rabináan
Compound tenses
dependent verb sequential perfective + -m
simultaneous imperfective + -m
past perfect affirmative perfective + perfective of én or sugé
present perfect affirmative perfective + imperfective of én
future perfect affirmative perfective + prospective of sugé
past progressive -k converb + imperfective of én or sugé
present progressive affirmative imperfect + imperfective of én
future progressive -k converb + prospective of sugé
immediate future affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of wée
imperfect potential I affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of takké
imperfect
potential II
affirmative imperfective + -m + takké
negative rabé + imperfective of wée + -m + takké
perfect
potential
affirmative perfective + -m + takké
negative rabé + perfective of wée + -m + takké
present
conditional II
affirmative imperfective + object pronoun + tekkék
negative rabé + perfective of wée + object pronoun + tekkék
perfect
conditional
affirmative perfective + imperfective of sugé + -k
negative perfective + sugé + imperfective of wée -k
irrealis rabé + perfective of xaaxé or raaré

References

  • Mario Capomazza (1907), “rabeh”, in La lingua degli Afar: Vocabulario Italiano-Dankalo e Dankalo-Italiano [The language of the Afar: Italian-Dankal and Dankal-Italian dictionary], Macerata: Unione Tipografica, page 166
  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “rabe”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 179
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 399

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of rabiot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁab/

Noun

rabe m (plural rabes)

  1. (informal) rest, leftovers
    Synonym: reste
    Y’a du rabe, qui en veut ?There's more left over, who wants some?

Further reading

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German rabo, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabō, from Proto-Germanic *hrabô.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈrabə/

Noun

rabe m

  1. a raven

Declension

Descendants

  • Alemannic German: Rapp
  • German: Rabe
  • Luxembourgish: Ramm
  • Rhine Franconian: Rab, Ramm, Rapp

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

rabe (Cyrillic spelling рабе)

  1. third-person plural present of rabiti