rebab

• rabab

Compare Arabic رَبَابَة (rabāba), Middle French rebec, Persian رباب (robâb). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈbæb/
• Rhymes: -æb

rebab (plural rebabs)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, related to the lute, used especially in Islamic countries
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 62:

     A last cricket scratched mournfully at its rebab.

• rebec
• ribibe
• ribible

• Ebarb, Barbe, Baber, Berba, breba, Bebra, bebar

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /rəˈbab/ [rəˈbap̚]
• Rhymes: -ab
• Syllabification: re‧bab

rebab (plural rebab-rebab)

1. rebab

• “rebab”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from French rébab.

rebab n (plural rebaburi)

1. rebab

• IPA^(key): /ɾeˈbab/
• Hyphenation: re‧bab

rebab (definite accusative rebabı, plural rebablar)

1. alternative spelling of rebap