rabi

noun

1. (South-Asia)Spring.
2. (South-Asia)The spring harvest.

   “...I made out that he would be here before the rabi harvest is ripe; the corn is green enough yet, but I thought that after work I would come over here to meet him.”

   “The monsoon had failed at the beginning but picked up very well later, so the rabi crop would be just fine and the wars they mentioned had taken place a year and a half ago.”

name

1. Either of two months in the Islamic calendar: Rabi I/Rabi-al-awwal (the third month) and Rabi II (the fourth).
2. A surname.