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• Rabi
  Rabi

  noun

  Isidor Isaac, 1898–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1944.
• rabi
  rabi

  noun

  (in Pakistan, India, etc) a crop that is harvested at the end of winter Compare kharif

Rabi

American  

[rah-bee] / ˈrɑ bi /

noun

1. Isidor Isaac, 1898–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1944.

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Rabi ¹ British  

/ ˈrɑːbɪ /

noun

1. Isidor Isaac . 1898–1988, US physicist, born in Austria, who devised the atomic and molecular beam resonance method of observing atomic spectra. Nobel prize for physics 1944

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rabi ² British  

/ ˈrʌbɪ /

noun

1. (in Pakistan, India, etc) a crop that is harvested at the end of winter Compare kharif

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Etymology

Origin of rabi

Urdu: spring crop, from Arabic rabī` spring

Example Sentences

The national anthem played as RSP's president Rabi Lamichhane and soon-to-be prime minister Shah stood next to each other, before the parliamentarians were sworn in.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Rabi at the 1954 hearing convened to consider stripping J. Robert Oppenheimer of his security clearance because of his opposition to developing the hydrogen bomb.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Mr Tamang, who joined the Russian army in January, had earlier told The Indian Express newspaper through his local corporator, Rabi Pradhan, that 13 out of 15 non-Russian members of his unit had died.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

In the 1930s, physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, who would go on to the Nobel Prize in Physics, did pioneering work on microwaves that led to the development of airborne radar systems.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Livermore seemed to be an auxiliary outpost caught between two larger labs, Los Alamos and Berkeley, and it was hardly unreasonable to wonder, with Rabi, if it would ever amount to more.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik