rubi

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See also: rubí and rubī

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

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

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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rubi, from Catalan robí (ruby), from Medieval Latin rubīnus, from Latin rubeus (red).

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: ru‧bi

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)

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rubí (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜒ)

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

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

Inflection of rubi (inflection type 3/kivi)
nominative sing. rubi
genitive sing. ruben
partitive sing. rubed
partitive plur. rubid
singular plural
nominative rubi rubed
accusative ruben rubed
genitive ruben rubiden
partitive rubed rubid
essive-instructive ruben rubin
translative rubeks rubikš
inessive rubes rubiš
elative rubespäi rubišpäi
illative rubehe rubihe
adessive rubel rubil
ablative rubelpäi rubilpäi
allative rubele rubile
abessive rubeta rubita
comitative rubenke rubidenke
prolative rubedme rubidme
approximative I rubenno rubidenno
approximative II rubennoks rubidennoks
egressive rubennopäi rubidennopäi
terminative I rubehesai rubihesai
terminative II rubelesai rubilesai
terminative III rubessai
additive I rubehepäi rubihepäi
additive II rubelepäi rubilepäi

References