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riba

riba noun: interest or usury, which is haram (sinful) according to sharia law.

Noun

riba (uncountable)

  1. interest or usury, which is haram (sinful) according to sharia law.

Proper noun capitalized: RIBA

RIBA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Royal Institute of British Architects.

Origin of riba

Borrowed from Arabic رِبًا (riban).

Questions about riba

What does riba mean?
Riba means interest or usury, which is haram (sinful) according to sharia law.
What part of speech is riba?
Riba can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near riba in the dictionary

  1. rib-rack
  2. rib-racks
  3. rib-tickler
  4. rib-ticklers
  5. rib-tickling
  6. riba
  7. Ribadeo
  8. Ribadesella
  9. Ribagorza
  10. Ribagorça
  11. ribald

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: riba (page history and authors); RIBA (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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