| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix II
Semitic Roots |
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| ENTRY: | rb. |
| DEFINITION: | West Semitic, to strike, hit. drub, perhaps from dialectal Arabic rab, to hit, from araba, to hit. |
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