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رِبَابٌ

Root: رب

Full Definition

رِبَابٌ : see رِبَابَةٌ, in two places.
2 Also Tithes, or tenths; syn. عُشُورٌ: from the same word signifying “ a covenant. ”
3 In the phrase يُعْطِيهَا الأَمَانَ رِبَابُهَا, ending a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, describing some asses, رِبَاب is said to signify An oath, or a promise, which the owner of the asses takes of a people to permit those asses to water: or the poet means that the person giving those asses permission to water gives to their owner an arrow, of those used in the game called المَيْسِر, [as a token,] to show that they have received permission to water, and that no one may offer them any opposition: some say that رِبَابُهَا here means their owners: [holding this last opinion,] Sh says that رِبَاب in this verse is a pl. of رَبٌّ.

def.2 It is also a pl. of رُبَّةٌ; not of رِبَّةٌ, as it is said to be by Th [and in the K].

def.3 See also 1, last sentence.

def.4 And see رُبَّانٌ.
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