Rabat
proper noun
- capital of Morocco
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈbɑːt/ / /ɹəˈbæt/ / /ɹɑːˈbɑːt/
name
Etymology: From Maltese rabat (“suburb”), from Arabic رَبَض (rabaḍ, “outskirts, suburb”).
- A town in the Western Region, Malta
- Former name of Victoria: a town and local council, the capital of the Gozo Region, Malta
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree French rabatbor. English rabat Borrowed from French rabat.
- A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
- A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.
- The clerical linen collar itself.
verb
Etymology: Apparently from French rabattre (“to lower”), which often denotes a folding or swinging motion downwards.
- To rotate a plane of projection.
“For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d.”
“Generally the true form of the diagonal is drawn on the half-breadth plan, being obtained by rabatting the plane containing the diagonal about the line through m into the horizontal plane.”