Rabb

Rabb ( رب, Rabbinic DMG ) is an Arabic word in the meaning of Lords, supporters, high Respected Master, which refers to Allah in the Islamic context. In the holy book of Muslims, the Koran, Rabb is one of the names used for Allah. Some language scholars of the Arabic language, according to the word comes from the verb " Rabba ", something " raise ", " educate ", " get ", or "ensure ". In addition to the resulting meanings accordingly called " Rabb " the one to whom you worship and worship ( ʿ Ibada (Arabic عبادة ) ) belongs in another and also concrete sense, but also " peacemaker ". This word is an adjective related exclusively to God in the absolute use and without additive. However, it is also used in the relative use and with the addition of a man such as " rabb ad - Dar " ( " the master of the house, to name a father or master of the house, etc.)., The term" Rabb " is in Although the Quran uses such as in the formulation ( رب العالمين, DMG rabbi l - alamin ʿ ), literally the " Rabb of the Worlds". playback in German as "Lord" for " Rabb " is not wrong, but not sufficient to identify the word in its meaning, as in " Rabb " in the Arabic language "mercy" and " welfare " are thought along, while "Lord" in addition to the notion of " domination ", " power" and " violence " is nothing comparable has.

In pre-Islamic Arabia, this term was probably used for some or all of there worshiped at this time gods. In this sense corresponds ' Rabb ' by expressions such as Baal, Adonis, etc. in the northwestern Semitic languages ​​in which Rabb " more, more " means.

In an early Meccan sura ( 106:3 ) Allah is called " lord of the house". The pre-Islamic deity al -Lat had nicknamed as the feminine form of Rabb: ar - Rabbah.