Urdu: spring crop, from Arabic rabī` spring
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He campaigned alongside the RSP president, combative television host Rabi Lamichhane, 51, a former deputy prime minister and interior minister and now a fellow lawmaker who retains a pivotal role in power.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
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
Hajiya Rabi Isah, based in Kano state, told the BBC that if it were not for this type of rice her children would go hungry as she cannot afford the normal kind.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
For his photographic series entitled “Good Luck,” Rabi centered his black cat, Sea Beast, gazing at broken mirrors in his live-work studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Rabi, a Nobel laureate and veteran of the MIT Rad Lab and the Manhattan Project.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
This last has comprised cooked potatoes, raw artichokes, mangolds, kohl rabi, swedes, cabbages, etc., during the winter months, and grass, lucerne, clover, vetches, cole seed, etc., during the summer months.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Spencer, Sanders
The kohl rabi, or turnip-rooted cabbage, is another nutritious vegetable which has inexplicably never been received into public favour.
From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.
He used, to some extent, cabbages, kohl rabi, mangolds, shorts, and other substances, rich in the constituents of cheese and butter.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Jennings, Robert
When this is eaten up, green food is given, consisting of cabbages, from October to December, kohl rabi till February, and mangold till grass time, with a view to nicety of flavor.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Jennings, Robert
Kohl rabi, from caulo-rapum, cabbage turnip, is a name given to the Brassica oleracea.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
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