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'''Rabb''' is an [[Arabic]] word meaning ''Lord'', ''Sustainer'', ''Cherisher'', ''Master'', which in [[Islamic]] context refers to [[Allah]]. In the Qur'an, rabb is one of the usual names of God.
Pre-Islamic Arabia probably applied this term to its gods or to some of them. In this sense the word corresponds to the terms like [[Ba'al]], [[Adonis]], etc. in the Northwestern Semitic languages, where rabb means "much, great"
<ref> A. Jeffery, ''The foreign vocabulary of the [[Qur'an]]'', Baroda 1938, 136-7 </ref>.
In an older [[Meccan sura|surah]], Allah is called the "Lord of this House" (106:3). Similarly, [[Allāt|al-Lat]] bore the epithet al-Rabba.
==See also==
*[[Rabbi]] - Hebrew term that sounds much like "Rabb" and may have a similar etymology.
==References==
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[[Category:Islamic terms]]
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