rabab
/ɹɪˈbæb/noun
rabab is a noun meaning “An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-B-A-B, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rabab is rababs.
What does rabab mean?
noun
- 1
An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rabab?
- /ɹɪˈbæb/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rabab
- rababs plural
- rebab
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rabab?
Rabab appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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 rabab come from?
Borrowed from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb), plural of رَبَابَة (rabāba).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).