רבי

• IPA^(key): /ribi/

רִבִּי • (ribbī) m (plural רבנא‎)

1. rabbi, spiritual teacher
2. master

• → Ancient Greek: ῥαββί (rhabbí) (see there for further descendants)

רַב‎ (ráv, “master”) +‎ ־י‎ (-i, “my”)

רַבִּי • (rabí) m

1. rabbi, spiritual teacher

• → Arabic: رَابِي‎‎‎ (rābī)

  Tunisian Arabic: ربّي‎‎‎ (rǝbbi)

• → Armenian: րաբբի (rabbi)
• → Chinese: 拉比 (lābǐ)
• → Hindi: रबी (rabī)
• → Japanese: ラビ (rabi)
• → Korean: 랍비 (rapbi)
• → Persian: ربی‎‎‎ (rabi)
• → Urdu: ربی‎‎ (rabī)
• → Yiddish: רבי‎ (rbi)
  • → English: rebbe
  • → Russian: ребе (rebe)
  • → Ukrainian: ребе (rebe)

• ר׳‎
• רב‎

• ריב‎

From Hebrew and Aramaic רבי‎ (“rabbi, spiritual teacher”).

רבי • (rebe) m, plural רביס‎ (rebes) or רביים‎ (rabeyem) , accusative and dative רבין‎ (rebn)

1. (historical or Hasidic) rabbi

   ‏איינער האָט ליב דעם רבין און דער אַנדערער די רביצין.‎‎

   eyner hot lib dem rebn un der anderer di rebetsin.

   One man loves the rabbi and the other one loves the rebbetzin.

• This is one of the few Yiddish nouns that declines. The accusative and dative are both רבין‎ (rebn).

• רביצין‎ (rebetsin)
• רביניו‎ (rebenyu)

• → English: rebbe
• → Russian: ребе (rebe)
• → Ukrainian: ребе (rebe)

• רב‎ (reb), ר׳‎ (r')
• הרבֿ‎ (horav)
• ראַבינער‎ (rabiner)
• רבֿ‎ (rov)