ribbon

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• IPA: /ˈɹɪbən/
• Rhymes: -ɪbən

Etymology

From Old French riban (French: ruban).

Noun

ribbon (plural ribbons)

1. A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
2. An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
3. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
4. (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.

Translations

long, narrow strip of material

• Afrikaans: lint (af)
• Albanian: rrip (sq), fjongo (sq)
• Azeri: lent (az)
• Belarusian: стужка (be) (stužka) f, лента (be) (lienta) f
• Bengali: পটি (bn) (paṭi)
• Bulgarian: лента (bg) (lenta) f
• Catalan: cinta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絲帶 (cmn), 丝带 (cmn) (sīdài), 緞帶 (cmn), 缎带 (cmn) (duàndài)

• Czech: stuha (cs) f
• Danish: bånd (da) n
• Dutch: lint (nl) n
• Finnish: nauha (fi)
• French: ruban (fr) m
• German: Band (de) n
• Greek: κορδέλλα (el) (kordélla) f, ταινία (el) (tainía) f
• Haitian Creole: tep, riban
• Hebrew: סרט (he) (séret) m
• Hungarian: szalag (hu)
• Indonesian: pita (id)

• Irish: ribíneach (ga) m, ribín (ga) m
• Italian: nastro (it) m, fettuccia (it) f
• Japanese: リボン (ja) (ribon)
• Korean: 리본 (ko) (ribon)
• Lao: ໂບ (lo) (ob)
• Latin: clipeum (la) f, taenia (la) f, taeniola (la) f
• Malay: pita (ms)
• Norwegian: båndet (no) n
• Polish: wstążka (pl) f, taśma (pl)
• Portuguese: fita (pt) f
• Romanian: fundă (ro) f
• Russian: лента (ru) (lénta) f, бант (ru) (bant) m, тесьма (ru) (tesʹmá) f
• Serbo-Croatian: vrpca (sh) f, traka (sh) f
• Spanish: cinta (es) f, moño (es) m, lazo (es) m, galón (es) m
• Tagalog: ribon (tl)
• Turkish: kurdele (tr)
• Ukrainian: стрічка (uk) (strichka) f
• Uzbek: lenta (uz)
• Vietnamese: dai đất (vi), mảnh (vi)
• Welsh: rhuban (cy), rudan (cy) f

inked ribbon

• Albanian: fjongo (sq), rrip (sq)
• Czech: páska (cs) f
• Dutch: lint (nl) n
• Finnish: värinauha (fi)
• French: ruban (fr) m
• Greek: ταινία (el) (tainía) f
• Indonesian: pita (id), ban (id)
• Italian: nastro (it) m, fettuccia (it) f
• Japanese: リボン (ja) (ribon)

• Korean: 리본 (ko) (ribon)
• Malay: pita (ms)
• Polish: wstążka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fita (pt) f
• Russian: лента (ru) (lénta) f
• Serbo-Croatian: pantljika (sh) f
• Spanish: cinta (es) f
• Turkish: şerit (tr)

toolbar

• Hungarian: menüszalag (hu)

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• Romanian: 2. ribon (ro) n

See also

• riband

Verb

ribbon (third-person singular simple present ribbons, present participle ribboning, simple past and past participle ribboned)

1. To decorate with ribbon.

Synonyms

• beribbon

Anagrams

• robbin