Rabi I

• Rabi‘ al-awwal, Rabi-al-awwal
• First Rabi

From Arabic رَبِيعُ الْأَوَّل (rabīʕu l-ʔawwal)

Rabi I

1. The third month of the Islamic calendar and birthmonth of Muhammad.
   • 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 128:

     [H]e wrote the chit for a date after the eleventh Friday, in the month of Rabi-al-awwal, honed his black cane as sharp as a buckwheat seed, and left for home, taking with him all the merchandise he wanted.