Rabāb
رباب
Say it ra-BAAB
Layered white clouds
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- r-b-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Rabab, Rubab, Rabaab
Meaning & source
White clouds layered one over another; Lisān: “the woman al-Rabāb was named by them”.
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قَالَ أَبو عُبَيْدٍ: الرَّبابةُ، بِالْفَتْحِ: السَّحابةُ الَّتِي قَدْ رَكِبَ بعضُها بَعْضاً، وَجَمْعُهَا رَبابٌ، وَبِهَا سُمِّيَتِ المَرْأَةُ الرَّبابَ؛
Who carried this name
- al-Rabāb bint al-Barāʾ ibn Maʿrūr Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11164 (vol. 8, p. 131)