راهب

Perhaps derived from the active participle of رَهِبَ (rahiba, “to dread”), from the root ر ه ب (r-h-b), with the intermediate meanings "dreader", "God-fearer", "God-worshiper", "venerator"; compare رَهَب (rahab, “veneration, respect”) and رَهْبَة (rahba, “terror; dread; awe”).

• IPA^(key): /raː.hib/
• Rhymes: -ib

رَاهِب • (rāhib) m (plural رُهْبَان (ruhbān), feminine رَاهِبَة (rāhiba))

1. (Christianity) monk
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:82:

     ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ مِنْهُمْ قِسِّيسِينَ وَرُهْبَانًا وَأَنَّهُمْ لَا يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ

     ḏālika biʔanna minhum qissīsīna waruhbānan waʔannahum lā yastakbirūna

     For there are among them priests and monks and they are not haughty.

• Maltese: raheb
• → Malay: rahib
  • Indonesian: rahib
• → Persian: راهب (râheb)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਰਾਹਬ (rāhab)

    Shahmukhi script: راهب (rāhab)

  • → Urdu: راہب (rāhib)
• → Ottoman Turkish: راهب (rahib)
  • Turkish: rahip

راهب (plural راهب-راهب or راهب۲, informal 1st possessive راهبکو, 2nd possessive راهبمو, 3rd possessive راهبڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of rahib

Borrowed from Arabic رَاهِب (rāhib, “monk”).

راهب • (rahib) (plural رهبان (ruhban))

1. (Christianity) monk, a male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service

   Synonyms: ابیل (ebil), كشیش (keşiş)

• راهبلك (rahiblik, “monkhood”)

• Turkish: rahip

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rahip”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3932
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “râhib”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1047
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “راهب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 614
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Monachus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1073
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “راهب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2267
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “rahip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راهب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 960

Borrowed from Arabic رَاهِب (rāhib).

راهب • (râheb)

1. monk

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਰਾਹਬ (rāhab)

  Shahmukhi script: راهب (rāhab)

• → Urdu: راہب (rāhib)