rabban

[ rab-uhn, ruh-bahn; Sephardic Hebrew, Ashkenazic Hebrew rah-bahn ]

noun

, Judaism.

, plural rab·ba·nim [r, uh, -, bah, -nim, rah-b, uh, -, neem, r, ah-bah-, neem, r, ah-b, uh, -, nim, r, ah-, baw, -nim].

1. master; teacher (used as a term of address and title of respect for a person ranking higher than a rabbi).

Word History and Origins

Origin of rabban¹

< Hebrew rabbān < Aramaic

Example Sentences

“The references were from scorpions, spiders and ants. Both the Baron and Rabban have this almost ant-head-like helmet.”

From Los Angeles Times

Casting Stellan Skarsgård as the Baron, Dave Bautista as his malevolent nephew Rabban, dubbed “the Beast,” and David Dastmalchian as the cunning “Mentat” advisor Piter de Vries, Villeneuve and his team set out to create a bold new vision of the Harkonnen world.

From Los Angeles Times

Dave Bautista's casting as Baron's brutish nephew Glossu Rabban amounts to even more of a preview, which speaks to Villeneuve's implied desire to save the bulk of the desert warfare for a second movie that has yet to be officially greenlit.

From Salon

But other characters — like Javier Bardem’s Freman leader, Josh Brolin’s surly weapons master, or Dave Bautista’s villainous Rabban — feel more like table setting for the sequel.

From The Verge

Rabban Hormizd Monastery, named after its founder, was built when Muslim armies were conquering the Middle East, and fortified over time.

From Reuters