# raba
## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraba/ [ˈɾʌbʌ]
* Hyphenation: ra‧ba

### Noun

rába m
* death

#### References

* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Estonian
### Etymology 1

Cognate to Finnish rapa (“dirt”). Most likely from Proto-Norse *draƀa-. Compare Swedish drav.

#### Noun

raba (genitive raba, partitive raba)
* moor (region with poor, marshy soil, peat, and heath)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *rapa, from Proto-Norse *draƀa-. Compare Swedish drav.

#### Noun

raba (genitive raba, partitive raba)
* sediment left over after the creation of beer or kvass

##### Declension
## Galician
### Etymology

From rabo (“turnip”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈraβɐ]

### Noun

raba m (plural rabas)
* turnip greens
* a bait made with roe

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “raba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “raba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “raba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraba/
* Hyphenation: ra‧ba
* Rhymes: -ba, -a

### Etymology 1

From Malay raba.

#### Verb

raba
* to touch (make physical contact with)
    Synonym: jamah
** 1949, Chairil Anwar, Mirat Muda, Chairil Muda:Mirat raba urut Chairil, raba dada Dan tahulah dia kiniThe mirror massages Chairil, touches his chest And now he knows

##### Derived terms

* meraba
* meraba-raba
* merabai
* peraba
* perabaan
* raba-rabaan
* rabaan
* teraba
* teraba-raba

### Etymology 2

From Minangkabau raba.

#### Adjective

raba
* (dialect) angry
    Synonym: marah

##### Derived terms

* meraba
* peraba

### Further reading

* “raba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* rabba
* raiba, reba (uncommon)

### Etymology

From Arabic رَحْب (raḥb, “marketplace of grain”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.ba/
* Rhymes: -aba
* Hyphenation: rà‧ba

### Noun

raba f (plural rabe)
* (historical) denoting: [from 5th to 16th c.]
* (Sicily) a grain warehouse
* (Genoa) a warehouse with a marketplace in front of it (the only allowed location for grain sale)
* (Pisa) the fee paid by merchants in order to deposit their goods in public trading posts

### Further reading

* raba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* bara

## Japanese
### Romanization

raba
* Rōmaji transcription of らば
* Rōmaji transcription of ラバ

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈrapa/

### Verb

raba
* inflection of rahpat:
** present indicative connegative
** second-person singular imperative
** imperative connegative

## Old Irish
### Verb

·raba
* first-person singular perfect prototonic of at·tá

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.ba/
* (Greater Poland):
** (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA: /ˈra.ba/
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: ra‧ba
* Homophone: Raba

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

raba f
* (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) Synonym of maciora (“sow”)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

raba m pers
* genitive/accusative singular of rab

### Further reading

* Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “raba”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 307

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Variation of rabo.

### Noun

raba f (plural rabas)
* (informal, vulgar) ass, butt (the buttocks)

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ràːba/

### Noun

rába f
* use (act of using)

#### Inflection
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unknown.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraba/ [ˈra.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: ra‧ba

### Noun

raba f (plural rabas)
* (Argentina, regional in Spain, chiefly in the plural) deep-fried calamari in batter

### Further reading

* “raba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English rubber.

### Noun

raba class IX (plural raba class X)
* running shoe, sneaker (shoe with rubber soles)
* rubber, eraser
    Synonym: kifutio
* (slang) condom
    Synonyms: kondomu, soksi

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɾa.ba]

### Verb

raba
* (transitive) to seize, confiscate

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rapa.

### Noun

raba
* sediment
* coffee grounds

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “гуща”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika