رَبَابٌ
Root: رب
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رَبَابٌ
Clouds: or white clouds: or clouds that one sees beneath other clouds, or clouds suspended beneath other clouds, sometimes white and sometimes black: this latter is said by IB to be the signification commonly known: or clouds consisting of an accumulation of parts: n. un. with ة. Hence الرَّبَابُ as a proper name of a woman.
def.2 Also A certain instrument of diversion, [meaning, of music,] having strings, with which one plays [lit. beats]. [The رباب in common use among the Arabs in the present day is a kind of viol. A specimen of it is figured and described in my work on the Modern Egyptians. Being an instrument of remarkable simplicity, it is probably similar to the ancient رباب.] Memdood Ibn-'Abd-Allah El-Wásitee Er-Rabábee became proverbial for his musical skill with the رباب.
def.3 See also رُبَّانٌ.
def.2 Also A certain instrument of diversion, [meaning, of music,] having strings, with which one plays [lit. beats]. [The رباب in common use among the Arabs in the present day is a kind of viol. A specimen of it is figured and described in my work on the Modern Egyptians. Being an instrument of remarkable simplicity, it is probably similar to the ancient رباب.] Memdood Ibn-'Abd-Allah El-Wásitee Er-Rabábee became proverbial for his musical skill with the رباب.
def.3 See also رُبَّانٌ.
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