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rav|rɒv| Also rov. [Yiddish.] A rabbi; freq. prefixed to personal names.
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. i. xiv. 314 ‘Ah, you will become a Rav!’.. ‘What's that about a Rav?.. Does he want me to become a Rabbi?’ 1893― Ghetto Tragedies 4 The great Rav Rotchinsky from Brody was to deliver a sermon. 1962‘E. McBain’ Empty Hours iii. 115 ‘I know who killed the rov.’.. ‘She says she knows who killed the rabbi.’ 1967C. Potok Chosen xiv. 238 From one to three we would have the actual Talmud session itself, the shiur, with Rav Gershenson. 1973Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 34/2 The daughters and family of the late Mrs B―. C―...wish to thank the Rav, rabbonim..and friends for their visits..and numerous letters of sympathy.
Sense in Dict. becomes 2. Delete existing variant list and etym., and add: Judaism. Also (in sense 1) rab, (in sense 2) rov. [ad. Heb. and Aramaic raḇ great (one), master (cf. rabbi n.1); in sense 2 partly through Yiddish.] 1. Hist. A title given to some of the Babylonian rabbis of the second to the fifth centuries.
1706I. Abendana Discourses Eccl. & Civil Polity of Jews v. 167 Rab Chasda was Rector of the School of Sora after the Decease of Rab Huna. 1819L. Alexander Hebrew Ritual iii. 288 Rab is the same person that is called Rav Abo..that is, our Holy Doctor. 1876H. Polano tr. Selections from Talmud 28 Death of Rab Ashi. 1930M. Waxman Hist. Jewish Lit. I. v. 126 Abba Areka..or, as he was later known, Rab, i.e. the master,..himself a Babylonian. 1971Encycl. Judaica II. 866 Rav Ashi: head of the Academy of Sura. |