Etymology

Back-formation from broccoli rabeCategory:English back-formations#RABE.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑːb/Category:English 1-syllable words#RABECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#RABE, enPR: räb

Noun

rabe (countable and uncountable, plural rabes)Category:English lemmas#RABECategory:English nouns#RABECategory:English uncountable nouns#RABECategory:English countable nouns#RABECategory:English countable nouns#RABECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RABECategory:Pages with entries#RABECategory:Pages with 5 entries#RABE

1. The budding shoot of a brassica that has bolted.
   • 2014, Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane, page 254:

     Coal-roasted kale rabe, garlic and chili with pickled ginger, and caramelized ham broth. . . What more can I say?

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   • 2017, Joshua McFadden, Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, page 313:

     Brassicas will bolt in early fall, too, […] While these skinny shoots topped with tiny clusters of florets—and eventually blooming flowers—might look rangy, […] I eat them raw in salad or I give them a quick sauté. While the flavor of a rabe echoes the plant, any spiciness or bitterness is generally softer.

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   • 2019, Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall, David Chase, The Sopranos Sessions:

     The Last of the Arugula Rabe

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   • 2021, Peter Hoffman, What's Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients:

     Microgreens are examples of this desire for new life in our diet also and explain why so many chefs adorn their dishes with them. Sadly though, they are little more than eye candy. Coming from greenhouses, often hydroponically grown, they lack the true taste of life from out of doors soil. But Kenny's rabe stems are the stars on the plate, sweet and tender. I make an entire meal out of a bunch of rabe sautéed in flavorful olive oil with a lot of garlic and a liberal sprinkling of chile pepper flakes.

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2. Broccoli rabe.
   • 2009, Matthew Kenney, Entertaining in the Raw, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 70:

     Wrapapers
     4 young Thai coconuts
     Filling and Rabe
     2 cups shiitake mushrooms, quartered
     […] 2 cups broccoli rabe, cut into 2-inch lengths

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   • 2010, Anthony Di Renzo, Bitter Greens, page 96:

     Profiled by Sarah Di Gregorio in The Village Voice, Fratelli's is famous for its broccoli rabe specialties. A rabe hero glistens with a sheen of olive oil and comes on a soft roll, studded with golden-brown garlic cloves. A rabe-stuffed calzone steams and bursts. Penne and braised rabe somersault in a frying pan. A white pizza, topped with rabe florets, is placed on a wooden peel and shoved into a crowded oven.

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   • 2011, Brooke Parkhurst, James Briscione, Just Married and Cooking: 200 Recipes for Living, Eating, and Entertaining Together, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 54:

     For good measure, give your plate of ricotta and rabe a final drizzle of fruity, super-high-quality extra virgin olive oil.
     serves 4 to 6
     1 bunch broccoli rabe

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   • 2013, Rachael Ray, Week in a Day, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 303:

     Pork & Broccoli Rabe Ciabatta Subs with Gremolata
     There are two different make-ahead strategies possible with this […] Option 2: You can cook the pork and rabe ahead and reheat on the night of (you'll need some chicken stock […]

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   • 2020, Charlotte Druckman, Kitchen Remix: 75 Recipes for Making the Most of Your Ingredients: A Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 78:

     Use your hands (or paper towel) to squeeze out excess water, then roughly chop. Add the rabe to the orecchiette. Add the pine nuts and stir to combine with the orecchiette and rabe.

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Anagrams

• Aber, Bare, Baré, Bear, Brea, Reba, bare, bear, brae

Etymology

Cognate with Saho rabe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈbe/ [ɾʌˈbɛ]Category:Afar terms with IPA pronunciation#RABE
• Hyphenation: ra‧be

Verb

rabéCategory:Afar lemmas#RABECategory:Afar verbs#RABECategory:Afar entries with incorrect language header#RABECategory:Pages with entries#RABECategory:Pages with 5 entries#RABE

1. (intransitiveCategory:Afar intransitive verbs#RABE) die
   • 2006, “Ruut 1:4-5 [Ruth 1:4-5]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎:

     Tabna sanatak lakal Maclon kee Kilyon kaadu rabteh.

     After ten years, Mahlon and Kilion also died.

     Category:Afar terms with quotations#RABE

References

• Mario Capomazza (1907), “rabeh”, in La lingua degli Afar: Vocabulario Italiano-Dankalo e Dankalo-Italiano [The language of the Afar: Italian-Dankal and Dankal-Italian dictionary], Macerata: Unione Tipografica, page 166
• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “rabe”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 179
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 399

Alternative forms

• rab

Etymology

Clipping of rabiotCategory:French clippings#RABE.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁab/Category:French 1-syllable words#RABECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#RABE

Noun

rabe m (plural rabes)Category:French lemmas#RABECategory:French nouns#RABECategory:French countable nouns#RABECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#RABECategory:French masculine nouns#RABECategory:Pages with entries#RABECategory:Pages with 5 entries#RABE

1. (informalCategory:French informal terms#RABE) rest, leftovers

   Synonym: reste

   Y’a du rabe, qui en veut ? ― There's more left over, who wants some?Category:French terms with usage examples#RABE

Further reading

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

Etymology

Inherited from Old High GermanCategory:Middle High German terms inherited from Old High German#RABECategory:Middle High German terms derived from Old High German#RABE rabo, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#RABE *hrabō, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#RABE *hrabô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈrabə/Category:Middle High German terms with IPA pronunciation#RABE

Noun

rabe mCategory:Middle High German lemmas#RABECategory:Middle High German nouns#RABECategory:Middle High German entries with incorrect language header#RABECategory:Middle High German masculine nouns#RABECategory:Pages with entries#RABECategory:Pages with 5 entries#RABE

1. a raven

Verb

rabe (Cyrillic spelling рабе)Category:Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms#RABECategory:Serbo-Croatian verb forms#RABECategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian verb form entries#RABECategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#RABECategory:Pages with entries#RABECategory:Pages with 5 entries#RABE

1. third-person plural present of rabiti