rabat

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈbæt/

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• Rhymes: -æt

Borrowed from French rabat.

rabat (countable and uncountable, plural rabats)

1. A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
2. (countable) A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.
3. (countable) The clerical linen collar itself.

Apparently from French rabattre (“to lower”), which often denotes a folding or swinging motion downwards.

rabat (third-person singular simple present rabats, present participle rabatting, simple past and past participle rabatted)

1. To rotate a plane of projection.
   • 1996, James Elkins, The Poetics of Perspective, →ISBN, page 112:

     For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d.

   • 2009, John Harvard Biles, The Design and Construction of Ships, →ISBN:

     Generally the true form of the diagonal is drawn on the half-breadth plan, being obtained by rabatting the plane containing the diagonal about the line through m into the horizontal plane.

   • 2015, Edmund George Warland, Modern Practical Masonry, →ISBN, page 169:

     The following rule should be noted: In solving the problem of the oblique plane, convert the oblique plane into an inclined plane, and rabat it about its H.T.

• Barta, Batra, Tabar, abart, artab, at bar

Derived from German Rabatt.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrabat]

rabat m inan

1. discount
2. rebate

From German Rabatt (“discount”). See there for more.

• IPA^(key): /ʁaˈpæt/

rabat c (singular definite rabatten, plural indefinite rabatter)

1. discount

   Synonyms: prisreduktion, discount

Ultimately from French rabat (“bands (neckwear); collar, cuff”). The sense metaphorical extension, possibly influenced by Dutch rabat (“seedbed”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁaˈpæt/

rabat c (singular definite rabatten, plural indefinite rabatter)

1. a collar, band; bands (neckwear) (of clothing; rare)
2. (by extension; mostly in compounds) a piece of land bordering or enclosing another area
3. the strip of land between the road and the gutter; a road verge or median strip
4. (architecture; rare) a kind of moulding

• “rabat,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “rabat,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “rabat,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
• “rabat,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Ultimately from Old French rabat. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Via what route, and is the sense from forestry of the same origin? How does it relate semantically, then? There are also other senses of "rabat" not yet included here, for which compare the disambiguation page on Dutch Wikipedia.

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rabat n (plural rabatten, diminutive rabatje n)

1. discount

   Synonym: korting

2. (forestry) heightened strip of land between ditches on which trees are planted

• rabat (bosbouw) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ba/

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rabat m (plural rabats)

1. band (neckwear)
   • 2018, Constance Debré, chapter 3, in Play boy, Paris: Stock, →ISBN, page 12; republished as Holly James, transl., Playboy, 2024:

     Il y a même une sorte de cravate bien phallique qu'on appelle un rabat et que je tripote pendant les audiences.

     It even comes with this phallic necktie called a band that you can fiddle with in court.

2. flap (of bag, pocket etc.)

• → English: rabat

rabat

1. third-person singular present indicative of rabattre

• “rabat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Dutch rabat (“discount”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈrabat̚]
• Hyphenation: ra‧bat
• Rhymes: -bat, -at, -t

rabat (plural rabat-rabat)

1. (colloquial) discount

   Synonyms: diskon, korting, potongan harga

• “rabat”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.bat/
• Rhymes: -abat

From Arabic رَبَطَ (rabaṭa).

rabat (imperfect jorbot, past participle marbut, verbal noun rbit)

1. to tie; to bind
   • 1975, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Kappella tal-Paċi”, in L-Għanja tas-Sittin:

     Ejja ‘l hawn, la tibżax minni,
     bil-katina ma norbtokx;
     norbtok biss bl-għeruq ta’ qalbi,
     f’ħajti kollha ma nħollokx.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (transitive) to join in marriage
3. to connect, link up

• għaqad

Inherited from Arabic رَبَض (rabaḍ).

rabat m

1. (obsolete) suburb

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rabat m (plural rabats)

1. (Guernsey) downdraft

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈrapah(t)/

rabat

1. second-person singular present indicative of rahpat

Borrowed from German Rabatt, from Italian rabatto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.bat/

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• Rhymes: -abat
• Syllabification: ra‧bat
• Homophone: Rabat

rabat m inan (diminutive rabacik)

1. discount, rebate (reduction in price)

   Synonyms: zniżka, obniżka, opust, bonifikata

• “rabat”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “rabat”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from German Rabatt.

• IPA^(key): [raˈbat]

rabat n (plural rabaturi)

1. discount, rebate