# rabat
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹəˈbæt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æt

### Etymology 1

From French rabat.

#### Noun

rabat (countable and uncountable, plural rabats)
* A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
* (countable) A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.
* (countable) The clerical linen collar itself.

### Etymology 2

Apparently from French rabattre (“to lower”), which often denotes a folding or swinging motion downwards.

#### Verb

rabat (third-person singular simple present rabats, present participle rabatting, simple past and past participle rabatted)
* To rotate a plane of projection.
** 1996, James Elkins, The Poetics of Perspective, →ISBN, page 112:For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d.
** 2009, John Harvard Biles, The Design and Construction of Ships, →ISBN:Generally the true form of the diagonal is drawn on the half-breadth plan, being obtained by rabatting the plane containing the diagonal about the line through m into the horizontal plane.
** 2015, Edmund George Warland, Modern Practical Masonry, →ISBN, page 169:The following rule should be noted: In solving the problem of the oblique plane, convert the oblique plane into an inclined plane, and rabat it about its H.T.

### Anagrams

* Barta, Batra, Tabar, abart, artab, at bar

## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from German Rabatt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrabat]

### Noun

rabat m inan
* discount
* rebate

#### Declension
## Danish
### Etymology 1

From German Rabatt (“discount”). See there for more.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁaˈpæt/

#### Noun

rabat c (singular definite rabatten, plural indefinite rabatter)
* discount
    Synonyms: prisreduktion, discount

##### Derived terms

* kasserabat
* kontantrabat
* mængderabat
* omsætningsrabat
* rabathæfte
* rabatkort
* rabatkupon
* rabatmærke
* studenterrabat
* sæsonrabat

### Etymology 2

Ultimately from French rabat (“bands (neckwear); collar, cuff”). The sense metaphorical extension, possibly influenced by Dutch rabat (“seedbed”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁaˈpæt/

#### Noun

rabat c (singular definite rabatten, plural indefinite rabatter)
* a collar, band; bands (neckwear) (of clothing; rare)
* (by extension; mostly in compounds) a piece of land bordering or enclosing another area
* the strip of land between the road and the gutter; a road verge or median strip
* (architecture; rare) a kind of moulding

##### Derived terms

* blomsterrabat
* græsrabat
* jordrabat
* materialrabat
* midterrabat
* rabatbredde
* vejrabat

### References

* “rabat,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “rabat,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “rabat,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
* “rabat,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Ultimately from Old French rabat. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Via what route, and is the sense from forestry of the same origin? How does it relate semantically, then? There are also other senses of "rabat" not yet included here, for which compare the disambiguation page on Dutch Wikipedia.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rabat n (plural rabatten, diminutive rabatje n)
* discount
    Synonym: korting
* (forestry) heightened strip of land between ditches on which trees are planted

#### Derived terms

* rabattenbos

### Further reading

* rabat (bosbouw) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁa.ba/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rabat m (plural rabats)
* flap (of bag, pocket etc.)

#### Descendants

* → English: rabat

### Verb

rabat
* third-person singular present indicative of rabattre

### Further reading

* “rabat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch rabat (“discount”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrabat̚]
* Hyphenation: ra‧bat
* Rhymes: -bat, -at, -t

### Noun

rabat (plural rabat-rabat)
* (colloquial) discount
    Synonyms: diskon, korting, potongan harga

### Further reading

* “rabat” 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.

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.bat/
* Rhymes: -abat

### Etymology 1

From Arabic رَبَطَ (rabaṭa).

#### Verb

rabat (imperfect jorbot, past participle marbut, verbal noun rbit)
* to tie; to bind
** 1975, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Kappella tal-Paċi”, in L-Għanja tas-Sittin:Ejja ‘l hawn, la tibżax minni, bil-katina ma norbtokx; norbtok biss bl-għeruq ta’ qalbi, f’ħajti kollha ma nħollokx.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (transitive) to join in marriage
* to connect, link up

##### Conjugation
#### See also

* għaqad

### Etymology 2

From Arabic رَبَض (rabaḍ).

#### Noun

rabat m
* (obsolete) suburb

##### Derived terms

* Ir-Rabat

## Norman
### Etymology

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

### Noun

rabat m (plural rabats)
* (Guernsey) downdraft

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈrapah(t)/

### Verb

rabat
* second-person singular present indicative of rahpat

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Rabatt, from Italian rabatto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.bat/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -abat
* Syllabification: ra‧bat

### Noun

rabat m inan (diminutive rabacik)
* discount, rebate (reduction in price)
    Synonyms: zniżka, obniżka, opust, bonifikata

#### Derived terms

* rabatowy
* rabatować

### Further reading

* rabat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* rabat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Rabatt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [raˈbat]

### Noun

rabat n (plural rabaturi)
* discount, rebate