Rhine

See also: rhine

English

Etymology

From Middle English Rine, Ryne, from Old English Rīn (“the Rhine”), from Middle High German and Old High German Rīn, from Proto-West Germanic *Rīn, from Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz, from Gaulish Rēnos, from a Pre-Celtic or Proto-Celtic *reinos; one of a class of river names built from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to move, flow, run”).

Cognate with Old High German Rīn ("the Rhine"; > German Rhein), Old Norse Rín (“the Rhine”), Dutch Rijn (“the Rhine”). Related also to Latin rivus ("river"), in Celtic with an -n- suffix as in Old Irish rīan (“run”) (more at run).

The spelling with Rh- is due to the influence of Ancient Greek Ῥῆνος (Rhênos) (via French Rhin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Proper noun

the Rhine

1. A river in western Europe, that flows through Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and the Netherlands, before emptying into the North Sea.

Derived terms

• cross the Rhine
• swim the Rhine

 

Translations

river that flows through Europe

• Afrikaans: Ryn
• Albanian: Rhein
• Alsatian: Rhy (Mulhouse), Rhin (North)
• Arabic: نَهْر اَلرَّايْن m (nahr ar-rayn)
• Armenian: Հռենոս (Hṙenos)
• Azerbaijani: Reyn (az)
• Basque: Rhin
• Bavarian: Rhein
• Belarusian: Рэйн m (Rejn)
• Bulgarian: Рейн m (Rejn)
• Catalan: Rin (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萊茵河／莱茵河 (zh) (Láiyīn hé)

• Czech: Rýn (cs) m
• Danish: Rhinen (da)
• Dutch: Rijn (nl) m
• Esperanto: Rejno
• Estonian: Rein
• Faroese: Rín f
• Finnish: Rein (fi)
• French: Rhin (fr) m

  Old French: Rin m

• Galician: Rin m
• Georgian: რაინი (raini)
• German: Rhein (de) m

  Central Franconian: Rhing m

  Rhine Franconian: Rhoi (Palatine)

• Greek: Ρήνος (el) m (Rínos)

  Ancient: Ῥῆνος m (Rhênos)

• Hebrew: ריין
• Hindi: राइन (rāin)
• Hungarian: Rajna (hu)
• Icelandic: Rín (is) f
• Indonesian: Rhein
• Irish: Réin f
• Italian: Reno (it) m
• Japanese: ライン川 (Rain-gawa)
• Kazakh: Рейн (Rein)
• Korean: 라인 강 (Rain gang)
• Kyrgyz: Рейн (Reyn)
• Lao: ໄຣນ໌ (rain), ແມ່ນ້ຳໄຣນ໌ (mǣ nam rain)
• Latin: Rhēnus (la)
• Latvian: Reina f
• Limburgish: Rien (li)
• Lithuanian: Reinas m
• Luxembourgish: Rhäin (lb) m
• Macedonian: Ра́јна f (Rájna)
• Malay: Rhine
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Rhinen

  Nynorsk: Rhinen

• Occitan: Ren m
• Old English: Rīn m or f
• Old Norse: Rín f
• Persian: راین (fa) (râyn)
• Polish: Ren (pl) m
• Portuguese: Reno m
• Romanian: Rin (ro) m
• Romansch: Rain m, Rein m
• Russian: Рейн (ru) m (Rejn)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Рајна f

  Latin: Rajna (sh) f

• Slovak: Rýn
• Slovene: Ren (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Ryn m

  Upper Sorbian: Ryn m

• Spanish: Rin m
• Swabian: Rei
• Swedish: Rhen (sv)
• Tajik: Рейн (Reyn)
• Thai: ไรน์ (rái), แม่น้ำไรน์
• Turkish: Ren (tr)
• Turkmen: Reýn
• Ukrainian: Рейн m (Rejn)
• Uzbek: Reyn
• Welsh: Rhein
• Yiddish: ריין m (reyn)

Anagrams

• Hiner, Hiren, rhein