rabba

See also: rabbá

Hungarian

Etymology

rab +‎ -ba

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈrɒbːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: rab‧ba

Noun

rabba

  1. illative singular of rab

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrapːa/
  • Rhymes: -apːa

Verb

rabba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rabbaði, supine rabbað)

  1. (intransitive) to chat, to make small talk
    Synonym: masa

Conjugation
rabba — active voice (germynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að rabba
supine
(sagnbót)		 rabbað
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 rabbandi
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég rabba við röbbum present
(nútíð)		 ég rabbi við röbbum
þú rabbar þið rabbið þú rabbir þið rabbið
hann, hún, það rabbar þeir, þær, þau rabba hann, hún, það rabbi þeir, þær, þau rabbi
past
(þátíð)		 ég rabbaði við röbbuðum past
(þátíð)		 ég rabbaði við röbbuðum
þú rabbaðir þið röbbuðuð þú rabbaðir þið röbbuðuð
hann, hún, það rabbaði þeir, þær, þau röbbuðu hann, hún, það rabbaði þeir, þær, þau röbbuðu
imperative
(boðháttur)		 rabba (þú) rabbið (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
rabbaðu rabbiði *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
  • rabb (“chit-chat, small talk”)

Maltese
Root
r-b-j
4 terms

Etymology

From Arabic رَبَّى (rabbā).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrab.ba/
  • Homophone: rabba’ (except archaically)

Verb

rabba (imperfect jrabbi, past participle mrobbi, verbal noun trobbija)

  1. to bring up, rear, raise, educate (a child)

Conjugation
    Conjugation of rabba
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m rabbejt rabbejt rabba rabbejna rabbejtu rabbew
f rabbiet
imperfect m nrabbi trabbi jrabbi nrabbu trabbu jrabbu
f trabbi
imperative rabbi rabbu

Old Norse

Etymology

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Verb

rabba (singular past indicative rabbaði, plural past indicative rabbaðu, past participle rabbaðr)

  1. to mumble

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References
  • “rabba”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

Likely an alteration of the second element of kålrabbi, from German Kohlrabi, from Italian cavolo rapa, doublet of rova.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /²raba/

Noun

rabba c

  1. (Scania) rutabaga, swede

Declension
Declension of rabba 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative rabba rabban rabbor rabborna
Genitive rabbas rabbans rabbors rabbornas

Synonyms

Derived terms

References
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