rabo

rabo

1. white paint

Inherited from Spanish rabo (“tail”), from Old Spanish rabo, from Latin rāpum (“turnip”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrabo/, [ˈra.bo]
• Hyphenation: ra‧bo

rabo

1. tail

• IPA^(key): /ˈrabo/
• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: ra‧bo

rabo (accusative singular rabon, plural raboj, accusative plural rabojn)

1. an act of robbery

• rabi (“to rob”)

• “rabo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN

From Old Galician-Portuguese rabo, probably from Latin rāpum (“turnip”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrabo/ [ˈra.β̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Hyphenation: ra‧bo

rabo m (plural rabos)

1. tail

   Synonym: cola

2. shaft; handle

   Synonym: mango

3. (botany) peduncle

• rabo de carneiro
• rabuxa

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “rabo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “rabo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rabo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rabo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rabo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From French rabot.

• IPA^(key): /ɣabo/

rabo

1. plane (tool)

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 160

• rrabo

Inherited from Latin rāpum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrabo/
• Rhymes: -abo
• Hyphenation: ra‧bo

rabo m (plural rabos)

1. tail (caudal appendage of an animal)

   Synonym: cola

• Fala: rabu
• Galician: rabo
• Portuguese: rabo

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “rabo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “rabo”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “rabo”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “rabo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Proto-West Germanic *hrabō, from Proto-Germanic *hrabô.

rabo m

1. a raven

• Middle High German: rabe
  • Alemannic German: Rapp
  • German: Rabe
  • Hunsrik: Raab
  • Luxembourgish: Ramm
  • Rhine Franconian: Rab, Ramm, Rapp

• rrabo

Inherited from Latin rāpum.

rabo m (plural rabos)

1. tail (caudal appendage of an animal)

   Synonym: cola

• Spanish: rabo
  • Chavacano: rabo

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “rabo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 424
• “rabos”, in Vocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish), Murcia: University of Murcia, 2013–2024

From Old Galician-Portuguese rabo, from Latin rāpum, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈɦa.bu]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -abu
• Hyphenation: ra‧bo

rabo m (plural rabos)

1. (of an animal) tail

   Synonym: cauda

2. (colloquial, of a person) butt, buttocks

   Synonyms: nádega, (vulgar) cu

• → Saramaccan: lábu

• “rabo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “rabo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish rabo, from Latin rāpum (“turnip”), from Proto-Indo-European *rap-. Cognate with English rape as in rapeseed the plant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrabo/ [ˈra.β̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: ra‧bo

rabo m (plural rabos)

1. tail

   Synonym: cola

2. (botany) peduncle

   Synonyms: pedúnculo, rabillo

3. (slang, Spain) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

4. (slang, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela) buttocks

• Chavacano: rabo

• “rabo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• abro
• obra
• roba