engl▪ RBʕ_1 ‘four’ ↗ ʔarbaʕ(aẗ); here belong also (ḥummà al-) ↗ribʕ ‘quartan (fever)’, ↗rubʕ ‘fourth part, quarter’ etc., ↗ʔarbaʕūnᵃ ‘forty; Ascension Day’, (yawm) al-ʔarbiʕāʔ or al- ↗ʔarbaʕāʔᵘ ‘Wednesday’, as well as items like tarbīʕ ‘lunar quarter; quadrangle; square, plaza’, tarbīʕaẗ ‘tile, floor tile’, murābiʕ ‘partner in an agricultural enterprise (sharing one quarter of the gains or losses)’
▪ RBʕ_2 ‘to gallop (horse), jump high (jerboa)’ ↗ rabaʕa, ‘jerboa’ (a hopping desert rodent) ↗yarbūʕ
▪ RBʕ_3 ‘to sit, stay, live; living zone, inhabited area, territory; large group of people, clan’ ↗ rabʕ
▪ RBʕ_4 ‘of medium height, medium-sized, well-built (of people)’ ↗rabʕaẗ (also marbūʕ [al-qāmaẗ]); here belongs also the rabbāʕ ‘athlete (boxer, wrestler, weight lifter, etc.)’
▪ RBʕ_5 ‘spring, vernal season; Rabia I and II (name of the third and fourth months of the Muslim year’ ↗ rabīʕ ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘four, fourth, to happen each fourth day, foursome; square, quarter; living quarters, neighbourhood; a well-built, medium-height person; spring, to become fertile, spring rains, to be in one’s prime, lushness’