murabba

English

Alternative forms

• muraba

murabba

Etymology

From Arabic مُرَبَّى (murabbā, “jam, fruit preserves”).

Noun

murabba (plural murabbas)

1. A kind of sweet fruit preserve.

Synonyms

• varenye

Translations

kind of sweet fruit preserve

• Arabic: مُرَبًّى m (murabban)
• Armenian: մուրաբա (hy) (muraba)
• Avar: мурапа (murapa)
• Azerbaijani: mürəbbə (az)
• Belarusian: варэ́нне n (varénnje)
• Georgian: მურაბა (muraba)
• German: Warenje n
• Hindi: मुरब्बा (hi) m (murabbā)
• Japanese: ヴァレニエ (varenie)
• Kazakh: тосап (tosap)
• Kumyk: мураба (muraba)
• Pashto: مربا f (morabã)
• Persian: مربا (fa) (morrabâ)
• Russian: варе́нье (ru) n (varénʹje), мура́бба f (murábba)
• Tajik: мураббо (murabbo)
• Turkish: murabba (tr)
• Turkmen: mürepbe
• Ukrainian: варе́ння (uk) n (varénnja)
• Urdu: مربا m (murabbā)
• Uyghur: مۇراببا (murabba)
• Uzbek: murabbo (uz)

Anagrams

• Rambabu, rum baba

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish مربع (mürebbaʿ), from Arabic مُرَبَّع (murabbaʕ).

Noun

murabba (definite accusative murabbayı, plural murabbalar)

1. (archaic) consisting of four things

   Synonym: dörtlü

2. (archaic, mathematics) square
3. (archaic, literature) a poem consisting of verses of four lines

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish مربی (mürebbâ), from Arabic مُرَبَّى (murabbā).

Noun

murabba (definite accusative murabbayı, plural murabbalar)

1. jam

References

• “murabba”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu