Rubik's cube

See also: Rubik's Cube

English

A puzzle of Rubik's cube.

Alternative forms

• Rubik's Cube

Etymology

Calque of Hungarian Rubik-kocka, named after the inventor Ernő Rubik.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʉwbɪkskjʉwb/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Rubik's cube (plural Rubik's cubes)

1. A mechanical puzzle in the shape of a cube, all sides able to be rotated, each side divided into 9 squares, the moving pieces allowing the cube to be rearranged. The goal is to get the colored squares aligned so that each side of the cube is the same color.

   Synonyms: 3x3x3, magic cube, puzzle cube

   Hypernym: twisty puzzle

   Hyponym: speedcube

   • 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 48:

     They can open bottles, smoke a cigarette, draw a picture, solve a Rubik's cube, all with the holiest of holies.

Derived terms

• cuber
• cubing
• more confusing than a Rubik's cube
• Rubik's cuber
• Rubik's cubist
• speedcube
• speedcuber
• speedcubing

Translations

cubical mechanical puzzle

• Arabic: مُكَعَّب رُوبِيك m (mukaʕʕab rūbīk)
• Armenian: Ռուբիկի խորանարդ (Ṙubiki xoranard), ռուբիկ-կուբիկ (ṙubik-kubik), կուբիկ-ռուբիկ (kubik-ṙubik)
• Bengali: রুবিক’স কিউব (rubik’s kiub)
• Burmese: ရုဘစ်ကုဗတုံး (ru.bhacku.ba.tum:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 扭計骰 / 扭计骰 (nau² gai^3-2 sik¹)

  Mandarin: 魔方 (zh) (mófāng)

• Czech: Rubikova kostka f
• Dutch: Rubiks kubus m
• Esperanto: kubo de Rubik
• Estonian: Rubiku kuubik
• Finnish: Rubikin kuutio (fi)
• French: Rubik's Cube (fr) m, Cube de Rubik m
• Georgian: რუბიკის კუბი (rubiḳis ḳubi)
• German: Zauberwürfel (de) m, Rubik’s Cube m
• Greek: κύβος του Ρούμπικ (el) m (kývos tou Roúmpik)
• Hebrew: קובייה הונגרית f (kubiya hungarit)
• Hindi: रुबिक घन (rubik ghan)
• Hungarian: Rubik-kocka (hu)
• Japanese: ルービックキューブ (rūbikku kyūbu)
• Khmer: រូប៊ិក ខ្យូប (ruubɨk khyoup)
• Korean: 루빅스 큐브 (rubikseu kyubeu)
• Latvian: Rubika kubs
• Lithuanian: Rubiko kubas
• Macedonian: Рубикова коцка f (Rubikova kocka)
• Mongolian: Рубикийн шоо (Rubikiin šoo)
• Persian: مکعب روبیک (moka'ab-e rubik)
• Polish: kostka Rubika (pl) f
• Portuguese: cubo mágico (pt) m, cubo de Rubik m
• Russian: ку́бик Ру́бика (ru) m (kúbik Rúbika), ку́бик-ру́бик (ru) m (kúbik-rúbik)
• Slovene: rubikova kocka m
• Spanish: cubo de Rubik (es) m, cubo mágico m
• Swedish: Rubiks kub (sv) c
• Thai: ลูกบิด (th) (lûuk-bìt)
• Turkish: Rubik Küpü
• Vietnamese: lập phương Rubik, khối Rubik, Rubik
• Yiddish: רוביקס קוב (rubiks kub)

Further reading

• Rubik's cube on Wikipedia.Wikipedia