Rabatz

German

Etymology

Deverbal from rabatzen, now obsolete in favour of Rabatz machen, from Polish rąbać, alternatively or concurrently dialectal rabanzen, rabastern etc. from old ranzen, ratzen going back to Middle High German and ultimately related to onomatopoeic formations such as well-known ratschen and rasseln.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaˈbat͡s/

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Noun

Rabatz m (strong, genitive Rabatzes, plural Rabatze)

1. (colloquial) brouhaha, ruckus

   Near-synonyms: Aufruhr, Tumult, Donnerwetter

Declension

Declension of Rabatz [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Rabatz	die	Rabatze
genitive	eines	des	Rabatzes	der	Rabatze
dative	einem	dem	Rabatz, Rabatze1	den	Rabatzen
accusative	einen	den	Rabatz	die	Rabatze

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

• “Rabatz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rabatz” in Duden online
• “Rabatz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon