rabat/ɹəˈbɑːt/EtymologyFrom Maltese rabat (“suburb”), from Arabic رَبَض (rabaḍ, “outskirts, suburb”).nameThe capital city of Morocco, and capital city of the region of Rabat-Sale-Kenitra, Morocco.A town in the Western Region, MaltaFormer name of Victoria: a town and local council, the capital of the Gozo Region, MaltanounA polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.The clerical linen collar itself.verbTo rotate a plane of projection.“For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d.”