rabâb
French, noun/ʁa.bab/
rabâb is spelled R-A-B-Â-B (5 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written French, the 291,657th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rabâb is a French masculine noun meaning “rabab” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de rabab”.
What does rabâb mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerabab
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cordophone à cordes frottées – le plus souvent deux –, élément central de la musique arabo-andalouse, espèce de vièle composée d'une caisse de résonance recouverte d’une peau de chèvre.
noun: 1. Variante de rabab.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rabâb
- rabâbs plural
- rababs plural
- rebab
- rabâb
- rubab
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rabâb?
- /ʁa.bab/
- /ʁa.bɑb/
- \ʁa.bab\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rabâb in French?
rabâb appears about once in every 87 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).