rav
/ɹɑv/noun
rav is a noun meaning “a rabbi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-V, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rav is ravs.
What does rav mean?
noun
- 1
a rabbi
- 2
a teacher or spiritual guide
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rav?
- /ɹæv/
- US /ɹɑv/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-rav.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rav
- ravs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rav?
Rav appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does rav come from?
Borrowed from Yiddish רבֿ (rov).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).