rhubab

rhubab (plural rhubabs)

1. Alternative spelling of rubab.
   • 1827, Ganavya Doraiswamy, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (London)., Royal Asiatic Society, pages 142-143:

     They still live in the songs of the bard, and furnish most interesting materials to the itinerant minstrel, the Dholi, the Jongleur of India, who to the sound of his rhubab, chants the exploits of Goes, who, with fifty sons and nephews, and all his clan, fell on the banks of the Indus, opposing MAHMÚD; or those of the romantic HAMMÍR, the theme of eternal plaudits, whenever the Rájput instances the sacrifices, which the rights of sanctuary and hospitality demand.

   • 2014, Ganavya Doraiswamy, Sound of Indian Music, Lulu.com, page 40:

     The sarod is a North Indian string instrument that is said to have evolved from the Afghan string instrument, the rhubab.

   • 2016, Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya, Taylor & Francis, page 151:

     His narrative rushed headlong through the old days of Buddhist influence to the arrival first of Shiʻism and then of Ismaʻilism, brought by wandering pirs like Nasir-i-Khusraw, who converted the people with rhubab and zither (stringed instruments common throughout the region, and used as accompaniment to Ismaʻili ginans, or hymns).

rhubab (countable and uncountable, plural rhubabs)

1. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Misspelling of rhubarb.
   • 2005, Om Prakash, Cultural History of India, New Age International, page 409:

     These are silks, porcelain ware, camphor, rhubab, wax, sandalwood, cardamom, cloves and spikenard.

   • 2022, Susan E. Erikson, My Mother and Other New Englanders: A Legacy of Faith, Wipf and Stock Publishers:

     Mistah Maynard, says the tall boy at the door, Can I have your rhubab, please? Grandpa nods, and I watch, as the boy breaks off a stalk, and eats it raw!