α. 1700s rubby, 1700s– rubbee, 1800s robbi, 1800s rubee, 1900s– rubbie.
β. 1800s rabí, 1800s– rabi.
单词 | rabi |
释义 | rabin.α. 1700s rubby, 1700s– rubbee, 1800s robbi, 1800s rubee, 1900s– rubbie. β. 1800s rabí, 1800s– rabi. 1. In South Asia: the spring season. Cf. kharif n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring LenteneOE LentlOE warea1300 verec1325 vera1382 vere-time1382 springing timea1387 springinga1398 springa1400 prime tempsa1425 the spring of the year1481 grass1485 springtime1495 prime time1503 sap-time?1523 spring tide1530 (the) spring of the leaf1538 prime1541 prime tide1549 voar1629 vernal season1644 vernal1654 outcome1672 Lent term1691 blossom-time1713 open water1759 rabi1783 budding-timea1807 ware-time1820 growing season1845 1783 W. Palmer Let. 17 Feb. in E. Burke Articles of Charge W. Hastings (1786) ii. 278 The money is to be paid by the following instalments:..five lacks at the commencement of the next Kuriof harvest; two lacks at the following rubby. 1790 F. Gladwin Compend. Syst. Bengal Revenue Accts 23 The Hindostan Revenue Year is divided into two harvests Khereef, and Rubbee. a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIII. 785/1 [Hindustan's] harvests..are equally profitable both in Spring (rabí) and Autumn (kharíf). 1886 A. H. Church Food-grains of India 99 Where indigo is grown in the kharif, barley is its usual accompaniment in the rabi. 1906 E. W. Hilgard Soils 290 In India, there are two distinct growing seasons (‘kharif’ and ‘rabi’), corresponding to the two ‘monsoon’ seasons. 1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) xi. 266 In India..a bare fallow with frequent cultivation is started towards the end of the rainy season (kharif ) and followed by a crop of pulse or cotton grown during the dry season (rabi ) on accumulated moisture. 2. In South Asia: a crop harvested in the spring, having been sown in the autumn. Cf. kharif n. 1.When used attributively before words such as crop and harvest, it is possible to interpret the word in sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > specific grain crops berimancorn1359 millet?a1425 rye1608 turnip-oatsc1800 turnip-wheat1808 rabi1827 sod corn1835 1827 J. E. Alexander tr. Mīrzā I'tisām al-Dīn Shigurf Namah-i-Velaët xvi. 197 In Hindoostan..there are two crops annually: one the rubbee harvest, the other the khureef. 1837 H. H. Spry Mod. India I. 252 The northern, like the southern parts of India, enjoys two crops during the year—one called Khureef, sown in May and June, and reaped in October; the other sown in October, and reaped in March and April, called the Rubbee crop. 1844 E. Thornton Gazetteer Countries adjacent to India on North-West II. 212 The rubbee crops [in Sinde] in general consist of wheat, barley, oil-seeds, millet,..opium, hemp, tobacco. 1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 2 Oct. 5/3 The ‘rubbee’ consists chiefly of pulse, and grains other than rice, and is harvested about March. 1957 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 39 768 A considerable amount of casual labor was used..from August to November during which time the preparation for sowing and sowing the rabi crop..were accomplished. 1990 Indian Express (Madurai) 19 Jan. 12/5 The FCI price support operations would commence in the next rabi season in April this year and cover maize, bajra and ragi. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1783 |
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