رَبَّانِىٌّ
Root: رب
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رَبَّانِىٌّ
and
رِبِّىٌّ or
رِبِّىٌّ , One who devotes himself to religious services or exercises, or applies himself to acts of devotion; who possesses a knowledge of God: or a learned man: or the first signifies, or signifies also, and so the second, i. q.
حَبْرٌ [i. e. a learned man, or particularly of the Jews, &c.; or a good, or righteous, man]; and a lord, or master, of knowledge or science: or a worshipper of the Lord (الرَّبّ): or a learned man, a teacher of others, who nourishes people with the small matters of knowledge, or science, before the great: or a learned man firmly grounded in knowledge, or science, and religion: or a learned man who practices what he knows and instructs others: or one of high rank in knowledge, or science: or learned with respect to what is lawful and what is unlawful, and what is commanded and what is forbidden: رَبَّانِىٌّ is a rel. n. from رَبَّانٌ; or from الرَّبُّ meaning “ God: ” the ا and ن being added to give intensiveness to the signification; or, as Sb says, to denote a special reference to the knowledge of the
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