rebec

From Middle French rebec, alteration of rubebe (see English ribibe), from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbɛk/, /ˈɹɛbɛk/
• Rhymes: -iːbɛk

rebec (plural rebecs)

1. (music) An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:

     The villages also must have their visitors to enquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebbeck reads ev'n to the ballatry, and the gammuth of every municipal fidler, for these are the Countrymans Arcadia's and his Monte Mayors.

• rebecist

• rebab
• ribibe
• ribible

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

• BEREC

Uncertain.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rəˈβɛk]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rəˈbɛk]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [reˈbɛk]

rebec (feminine rebeca, masculine plural rebecs, feminine plural rebeques)

1. rebellious, unruly, disobedient

• rebequeria

• “rebec”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “rebec”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “rebec” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rebec” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French rebec.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrebek/, [ˈre̞be̞k]
• Rhymes: -ebek

rebec

1. (music) rebec

Inherited from Middle French rebec, ultimately from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb). Compare Italian ribeca.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.bɛk/

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rebec m (plural rebecs)

1. rebec

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

From Old French rubebe, ultimately from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb).

rebec m (plural rebecs)

Borrowed from French rebec.

rebec n (plural rebecuri)

1. rebec