Rabi II

English

Alternative forms

• Rabi al-Akhir
• Rabi‘ al-Thani
• Second Rabi

Etymology

From Arabic رَبِيعُ الثَّانِي (rabīʕu ṯ-ṯānī), رَبِيعُ الْآخِر (rabīʕu l-ʔāḵir).

Proper noun

Rabi II

1. The fourth month of the Islamic calendar.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 41:

     I witnessed at the time of the Great Plague at Damascus in the latter part of the month of Second Rabi of the year 749 a remarkable instance of the veneration of the people of Damascus for this mosque.

   • 2002, David S. Powers, Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500, page 61:

     The first and primary issue that he addressed was the status of the single, revocable repudiation that al-Haskuri had issued on 12 Rabī‘ II 714/26 July 1314.

   • 2011, Mansoor Jassem Alshamsi, Islam and Political Reform in Saudi Arabia, page 119:

     On 3 Rabi‘ al-Thani 1414H (20 September 1993AD), Ibn Baz responded to Naif's official letter.

Translations

fourth month of the Islamic calendar

• Arabic: رَبِيع الآخِر m (rabīʕ al-ʔāḵir), رَبِيع الثَّانِي m (rabīʕ aṯ-ṯānī)
• Japanese: ラビーア・アッ＝サーニー (Rabīa as-Sānī), ラビーア・アル＝アーヒル (Rabīa aru-Āhiru)
• Kazakh: рабиғул ахир (rabiğul axir)
• Persian: ربیع‌الثانی (rabi'-os-sâni)

See also

(Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja ^{(Category: en:Islamic months)}