and the word rubba (رُبَّ), meaning 'many'; thus the phrase wāw rubba means 'the wāw of many, the wāw equivalent in meaning to rubba'. This name arises...

Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו‎, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و‎...

boasting or self-praise, often opening with the excalamation known as wāw rubba. In fakhr passages, a poet may praise his tribe or other group, or the...

each statement begins with the exclamatory syllable known in Arabic as wāw rubba.: 19  The poem includes no solutions to these riddles, and different manuscripts...