ربع

Compare أَرْبَعَة (ʔarbaʕa, “four”). Cognate to Hebrew רֹבַע (róva', “quarter”).

رُبُع or رُبْع • (rubuʕ or rubʕ) m (plural أَرْبَاع (ʔarbāʕ))

1. one fourth, one quarter
2. quarter (area or region)

• اَلرُّبْع اَلْخَالِي (ar-rubʕ al-ḵālī)

• Gulf Arabic: ربع (rubiʕ)
• Moroccan Arabic: ربع (rubʕ, rubuʕ)
• → Catalan: arrova
• → Middle Armenian: ռուպ (ṙup), ըռուպ (əṙup)
  • Armenian: ռուբ (ṙub)
• → Italian: rubbio
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: arrova, arroba
  • Galician: arroba
  • Portuguese: arroba
• → Old Spanish: arroua
  • Spanish: arroba
    • → English: arroba
    • → French: arobase
• → Persian: ربع (rob')
  • → Azerbaijani: rüb
  • → Ottoman Turkish: ربع (rub)
• → Swahili: robo

• نِصْف (niṣf, “a half”), ثُلْث (ṯulṯ, “a third”), خُمْس (ḵums, “a fifth”), سُدْس (suds, “a sixth”), سُبْع (subʕ, “a seventh”), ثُمْن (ṯumn, “an eighth”), تُسْع (tusʕ, “a ninth”), عُشْر (ʕušr, “a tenth”)

• (Kuwait) (quarter): IPA^(key): /rʊbɪʕ/
• (Kuwait) (friends): IPA^(key): /rəbɪʕ/

From Arabic رُبُع (rubuʕ).

رُبِع • (rubiʿ) m (dual رُبْعين (rubʿēn), plural اَرْباع (arbāʿ))

1. quarter, one fourth
2. (Kuwait) a quarter Kuwaiti Dinar, equivalent to 250 Fils

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

رَبِع • (rabiʿ) m (plural only)

1. (plural only) friends

   Synonyms: (singular) رفيج (rfīj), (singular) صاحب (ṣāḥib)

Borrowed from Arabic رُبْع (rubʕ).

ربع • (rob')

1. quarter, one-fourth

   Synonym: چهارم (čahârom)

   ربع ساعت ― rob' sâ'at ― quarter-hour

   دو و ربع ― do o rob' ― two and a quarter; quarter past two

• → Azerbaijani: rüb
• → Ottoman Turkish: ربع (rub)

• نیم (nim, “half”)
• نصف (nesf, “half”)
• ثلث (sols, “third”)

From Arabic رُبُع (rubuʕ).

• IPA^(key): /rubʕ/, [ˈrʊ.b(ʊ)ʕ]

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ربع • (rubʕ) m (plural رباع (rbāʕ))

1. quarter