ruby

See also Ruby

English

Wikipedia

A ruby (gem).

Pronunciation

• IPA: ['ɹuːbi]
• Rhymes: -uːbi

Etymology 1

From Latin rubeus (red).

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

1. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
   • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128: 

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

2. A deep red colour.

   ruby colour:

3. (typography, UK) Type having a height of 5.5 points.
4. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
5. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.

Synonyms

• (typesetting): agate (US)

Translations

type of gem

• Albanian: rubin (sq) m
• Arabic: ياقوت (ar) (yāqūt) m
• Armenian: սուտակ (hy) (sutak)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: robí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅寶石 (cmn), 红宝石 (cmn) (hóngbǎoshí)

• Czech: rubín (cs) m
• Danish: rubin (da) c
• Dutch: robijn (nl) m and n
• Esperanto: rubeno (eo)
• Estonian: rubiin (et)
• Faroese: rubinur (fo) m
• Finnish: rubiini (fi)
• French: rubis (fr) m
• Galician: rubí (gl) m
• Georgian: ლალი (ka) (lali), ბადახში (ka) (badaxši)
• German: Rubin (de) m
• Greek: ρουμπίνι (el) (roumpíni) n
• Hebrew: אֹדֶם (he)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: rubin (hu)
• Icelandic: rúbín (is) m

• Irish: rúibín (ga) m
• Italian: rubino (it) m
• Japanese: ルビー (ja) (rubī)
• Jèrriais: rubis m
• Khmer: ត្បូងទទឹម (km) (tboong tɔtɨm)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: delima (ms)
• Persian: یاقوت (fa)
• Polish: rubin (pl) m
• Portuguese: rubi (pt) m
• Romanian: rubin (ro)
• Russian: рубин (ru) (rubín) m
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: рубин (sh) (rubin) m
• Slovak: rubín (sk)
• Spanish: rubí (es) m
• Swedish: rubin (sv) c
• Telugu: కెంపు (te)
• Turkish: yakut (tr)
• Urdu: ياقوت (ur)
• Vietnamese: hồng ngọc (vi)
• Volapük: rubain (vo)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

colour

• Dutch: robijnrood (nl)
• Georgian: წითელი ფერი (ka) (cit'eli p'eri)
• Hungarian: rubinvörös

• Icelandic: rúbínrauður (is) m (adjective)
• Russian: рубиновый (ru) (rubínovyj)
• Volapük: rubainaköl (vo)

size of typeface

hummingbird

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• carbuncle
• corundum
• spinel
• Ruby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

ruby (comparative more ruby, superlative most ruby)

1. Of a deep red colour (having any of numerous bright colours reminiscent of the colour of blood or cherries or tomatoes).

Translations

colour

• Icelandic: rúbínrauður (is)
• Polish: rubinowy (pl)

• Volapük: rubainakölik (vo)

Derived terms

• balas ruby
• Colorado ruby
• rubasse
• rubicund
• rubious

• rubric
• ruby port
• ruby spinel
• ruby wedding
• ruby-throated hummingbird
• star ruby

Verb

ruby (third-person singular simple present rubies, present participle rubying, simple past and past participle rubied)

1. (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)

Related terms

• corundum

Etymology 2

From the British 5.5-point font Ruby, used for annotations in printed documents.

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

1. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.

The Japanese ruby characters (furigana) for Tokyo ("東京")

hiragana	katakana	romaji
とう きょう 東 京	トウ キョウ 東 京	tō kyō 東 京

Translations

pronunciation guide

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旁註標記 (cmn), 旁注标记 (cmn) (pángzhù biāojì), 註音標示 (cmn), 注音标示 (cmn) (zhùyīn biāoshì), 加註音 (cmn), 加注音 (cmn) (jiāzhùyīn), ruby (cmn)

• Japanese: 振り仮名 (ja) (ふりがな, furigana), ルビ (ja) (rubi)
• Russian: агат (ru) (agát) m, (indeclinable) руби (ru) (rúbi) m

Synonyms

• rubi

See also

• furigana
• yomigana
• pinyin
• zhuyin
• Ruby characters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Ruby characters

Anagrams

• bury