Crossword-Solution: RABAB 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Then at evening when she came home, she would stand outside the door, and sing to her twin kids this little song: Hearken now Sunaisil, Come Rabab my dear: Open to your mother, Never, never fear.

How I did long to transport the whole scene before your eyes—Ramadan warbling intense lovesongs, and beating on a tiny tambourine, while Zeyneb danced before him and gave the pantomime to his song; and the sailors, and girls, and respectable merchants sat _pêle-mêle_ all round on the deck, and the player on the rabab drew from it a wail like that of Isis for dead Osiris.

The fallen Angels were also fallen Stars; and the first allusion to a feud among the spiritual powers in early Hebrew Mythology, where Rabab and his confederates are defeated, like the Titans in a battle against the Gods, seems to identify the rebellious Spirits as part of the visible Heavens, where the "high ones on high" are punished or chained, as a signal proof of God's power and justice.

The _Rabab_ is a larger wooden instrument of a somewhat elongated shape, and its lower portion is also covered by a tight sheepskin--the remainder of the uncovered wood being prettily inlaid with silver and bone.

When sitting over his bottle, he can sing a good song, and play upon the _rabab_, a sort of Afghan fiddle, with very considerable skill.