| Rabbu ʾl-ʿIzzah | Lord of Glory. |
| Rabbu ʾl-ʿĀlamīn | Lord of the Universe. |
| Rabbu ʾl-Arbāb | Lord of Lords. |
| Rabbu ʾl-ʿĪbād | Lord of (His) Servants. |
The word is also used for a master or owner, e.g.:—
| Rabbu ʾd-Dār | The Master of the house. |
| Rabbu ʾl-Arẓ | A landowner. |
| Rabbu ʾl-Māl | A possessor of property. |
| Rabbu ʾs-Salaf | A person who pays in advance for an article. |
RABBU ʾN-NAUʿ (رب النوع). The “Lord of the Species.” An angel who is said to preside over the animate and inanimate creation, viz.: nabātāt, “vegetable”; ḥaiwānāt, “animal”; jamādāt, “inanimate” (stones, earth, &c.), called al-ʿālamu ʾs-suflī, “the lower creation,” as distinguished from al-ʿālamu ʾl-ʿulwī, “the heavenly world.” (See G͟hiyās̤u ʾl-Lug͟hah.)
RABĪʿU ʾL-ĀK͟HIR (ربيع الاخر). “The last spring month.” The fourth month of the Muḥammadan year. [[MONTHS].]
RABĪʿU ʾL-AWWAL (ربيع الاول). “The first spring month.” The third month of the Muḥammadan year. [[MONTHS].]
In India, the word rabīʿ is used for spring harvest, or crop sown after the rains.
RACHEL. Arabic Rāḥīl (راحيل). Heb. רָחֵל, Rahel. The wife of Jacob and the mother of Joseph. Not mentioned in the Qurʾān, but the name occurs in commentaries.
The English form Rachel is a strange error on the part of our translators, who almost invariably represent the Hebrew ח by the letter h. The correct form, Rahel, which is the form familiar to Muslim writers, occurs once in the English Bible, [Jer. xxxi. 15].
AR-RAʿD (الرعد). “Thunder.” The title of the XIIIth Sūrah of the Qurʾān, in the 14th verse of which the word occurs. “The thunder celebrates his praise.”