English

Alternative forms

• rebab

Noun

rabab ‎(plural rababs)

1. An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 846:

     The hired musicians—rabab, hand drums, and ghärawnay, or Chinese flute—had learned “Kalinka” and “Ochi Chorniya”