The Hebrew word that is transliterated in Greek and typically in English as «rabbi» is translated in Indonesian and Malay as guru — «teacher» — or bapak guru — «father teacher» in recent translations. (The only exception that is the Alkitab Versi Borneo of 2015 that transliterates as rabi.) (Source: Daud Soesilo in The Bible Translator 1996, p. 335ff. )

In Toposa it is translated as «one who causes to think.» (source: Schröder 2026, p. 101)

See also teacher.