rubi

English

Noun

rubi

1. Alternative form of ruby (“pronunciation guide for Chinese or Japanese characters”)
   • 2010, Alisa Freedman, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, page 170:

     "Shinjuku Sketch" demonstrates another of Ryutanji's trademark techniques, which was established in The Age of Wandering: writing English loan words as kanji Chinese character compounds cribbed with rubi to convey a visual sense of international modernism and global culture.

   • 2012, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Judy Wakabayashi, Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context, page 158:

     Bespoke combinations of kanji can also be created, because the intended phonetic and semantic readings can be supplied by the rubi glosses.

Anagrams

• URBI

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rubí.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ru‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ɾuˈbi/,

Noun

rubí

1. ruby

Galician

Verb

rubi

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of rubir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.bi/
• Rhymes: -ubi
• Hyphenation: rù‧bi

Verb

rubi

1. inflection of rubare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• urbi

Japanese

Romanization

rubi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ルビ

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rupi.

Noun

rubi (genitive ruven, partitive rubie)

1. scab
2. (pathology) pox
3. vaccination

References

• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “rupi”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

Latin

Noun

rubī

1. inflection of rubus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rupi.

Noun

rubi (genitive ruven, partitive rubii)

1. scab
2. (pathology) pox
3. vaccination

References

• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “rupi”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

Old Irish

Verb

·rubi

1. Alternative form of ·rubai

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan robí (“ruby”), from Medieval Latin rubīnus, from Latin rubeus (“red”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rubi m (plural rubis)

1. ruby (a deep red corundum gemstone)
2. ruby (a deep red colour)

Adjective

rubi (invariable)

1. ruby (deep red in colour)

Related terms

• rúbeo
• ruivo

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rubí (“ruby”), from Catalan robí, from Old French rubin, from Medieval Latin rubīnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾuˈbi/,
• Hyphenation: ru‧bi

Noun

rubí (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜒ)

1. ruby (precious stone)
2. ruby (color/colour)

Related terms

Adjective

rubí (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜒ)

1. ruby (color/colour)

Further reading

• “rubi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rupi, borrowed from Germanic. Cognates include Finnish rupi.

Noun

rubi

1. scab
2. scar
3. roughness

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “короста, шероховатость, шрам”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika