rebbe

Borrowed from Yiddish רבי (rebe). Doublet of rabbi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛbi/, /ˈɹɛbə/
• Rhymes: -ɛbi, -ɛbə

rebbe (plural rebbes)

1. (Judaism) The spiritual leader of a Hasidic Jewish community.
   • 2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.

   • 2024 January 9, Eliza Shapiro and Katherine Rosman, “Secret Synagogue Tunnel Sets Off Altercation That Leads to 9 Arrests”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     But two men who said they spoke with some of those who broke through the synagogue wall said the motive was to hasten an expansion of 770 — a move that they say the Lubavitcher movement’s leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the rebbe, called for more than three decades ago.

• rebbe card

• rabbi
• reb
• rebbetzin

• berbe, ebber

Borrowed from Yiddish רבי (rebe).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.bə/

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• Hyphenation: reb‧be
• Rhymes: -ɛbə

rebbe m (plural rebbes)

1. an Ashkenazi rabbi, in particular a Chasidic one; rebbe

• rabbi
• rabbijn

From Middle Dutch ribbe, from Old Dutch *ribba, from Proto-Germanic *ribjō.

• Rhymes: -æːbə
• IPA^(key): /ræːbə/

rebbe m

1. rib