ring

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See also: Ring and riñg

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English ring, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with West Frisian ring, Low German Ring, Dutch ring, German Ring, Swedish ring, also Finnish rengas. Doublet of rink.

Noun[edit]

ring (plural rings)

  1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
    1. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
      Synonyms: annulus, hoop, torus
    2. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
    3. (Britain) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
    4. (Britain) A burner on a kitchen stove.
    5. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
    6. (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
    7. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
  2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
    1. A circular group of people or objects.
      a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
    2. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
    3. (Britain) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
  3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
    onion rings
  4. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
    • 1707, Edmund Smith, Phaedra and Hippolitus
      Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
    1. The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
  6. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
    a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
    • 1877, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
      the ruling ring at Constantinople
    • 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston
      It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.
    • 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
  7. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
    a benzene ring
  8. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
  9. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
  10. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
    • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 168.
      The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties
  11. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
    • 2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)
      Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.
  12. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
  13. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from "ring" (etymology 1)
Translations[edit]
burner (e.g. of a stove) — see burner
typography: diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle — see kroužek
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Gallery[edit]

  • A boxing ring.

  • A ring on a finger.

  • The rings of a tree.

  • The circus ring.

  • A ring on a bird's leg.

  • The rings of Saturn.

Verb[edit]

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

  1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.
    The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
    They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
  3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
    We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
    • 1919, Popular Science (volume 95, number 4, page 31)
      Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
  4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
    to ring a pig’s snout
  5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
  6. (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
    • A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories
      Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be comfortable with.
    • 2019 (10 December), Ross McCarthy, Digbeth chop shop gang jailed over £2m stolen car racket (in Birmingham Live) [2]
      They used two bases in Digbeth to break down luxury motors, some of which were carjacked or stolen after keys were taken in house raids. The parts were then fitted to salvaged cars bought online. […] Jailing the quartet, a judge at Birmingham Crown Court said it was a "car ringing on a commercial and substantial scale".
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa.

Noun[edit]

ring (plural rings)

  1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
    The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
    The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
  2. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
    The name has a nice ring to it.
  3. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
    Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
  4. (colloquial) A telephone call.
    I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
  5. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
  6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
    St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
Derived terms[edit]
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Verb[edit]

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past rang or (nonstandard) rung, past participle rung)

  1. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
    The bells were ringing in the town.
  2. (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
    The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
  3. (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
    They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
    Whose mobile phone is ringing?
  5. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
    That does not ring true.
  6. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
    I will ring you when we arrive.
  7. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.
    • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
      It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."
  8. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
      Four Bells admit Twenty-four changes in Ringing
  9. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from ring (verb, etymology 2)
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Etymology 3[edit]

From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892).[1] Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

The symbol ℤ represents the ring of integers.

Noun[edit]

ring (plural rings)

  1. (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
    The set of integers, , is the prototypical ring.
  2. (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
    The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set of even integers to be a ring.
Hypernyms[edit]
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Etymology 4[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Noun[edit]

ring (plural rings)

  1. (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.[3]
Hyponyms[edit]
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References[edit]

  1. ^ 1962, Harvey Cohn, A Second Course in Number Theory, Wiley, 1980, Advanced Number Theory, Dover, Unabridged republication, page 49.
  2. ^ Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (R)
  3. ^ Gerald B. Folland (©1999) Real Analysis : Modern Techniques and Their Applications, Second edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, OCLC 803988029, §1.2, page 24

Anagrams[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch ring, from Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring (plural ringe)

  1. ring, hollow circular object

Atong (India)[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun[edit]

ring

  1. taro

References[edit]

Balinese[edit]

Preposition[edit]

ring

  1. in, at (basa alus)
    Ring Bali wénten danu patpat: Batur, Beratan, Tambilingan miwah Buyan. ― There are four lakes in Bali: Batur, Beratan, Tambilingan and Buyan.
    lianan ring ― besides
    ring ajeng ― in front of
    ring arep ― in front of
    ring dija? ― (at) where?
    Ring dija ragané magenah? ― Where do you live?
    Ring dija ragané mekarya? ― Where do you work?
    ring jero ― inside
    ring pidan? ― when? (past time reference)
    Ring pidan ipun rauh? ― When did he come?
    ring sapunapi ― sometime(s), from time to time
    Synonym: di (basa biasa)

Cimbrian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ring

  1. (of weight) light

References[edit]

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m inan

  1. ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Declension[edit]

Declension
singular plural
nominative ring ringy
genitive ringu ringů
dative ringu ringům
accusative ring ringy
vocative ringu ringy
locative ringu rinzích
instrumental ringem ringy

Further reading[edit]

  • ring in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • ring in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring c (singular definite ringen, plural indefinite ringe)

  1. ring
  2. circle
  3. halo
  4. hoop
  5. coil
Inflection[edit]
Declension of ring
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ring ringen ringe ringene
genitive rings ringens ringes ringenes
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verbal noun to ringe (“to ring”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring n (singular definite ringet, plural indefinite ring)

  1. (archaic) ring (the resonant sound of a bell, a telephone call)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of ring
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ring ringet ring ringene
genitive rings ringets rings ringenes

Etymology 3[edit]

See ringe.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. imperative of ringe

Dutch[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m (plural ringen, diminutive ringetje n)

  1. ring, hollow circular object
  2. (gymnastics) ring
  3. beltway, ring road

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: ring
  • → Indonesian: ring

See also[edit]

Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German rink. Compare German Ring. See also rõngas.

Noun[edit]

ring (genitive ringi, partitive ringi)

  1. circle

Declension[edit]

Declension of ring (type riik)
singular plural
nominative ring ringid
genitive ringi ringide
partitive ringi ringe / ringisid
illative ringi / ringisse ringidesse
inessive ringis ringides
elative ringist ringidest
allative ringile ringidele
adessive ringil ringidel
ablative ringilt ringidelt
translative ringiks ringideks
terminative ringini ringideni
essive ringina ringidena
abessive ringita ringideta
comitative ringiga ringidega

See also[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English ring (sense 1) and Dutch ring (sense 2).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m (plural rings)

  1. (sports, chiefly combat sports) ring
  2. (Belgium) ring road, beltway

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Garo[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring

  1. boat

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. singular imperative of ringen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of ringen

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (frequentative suffix).[1]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. (intransitive) to swing, to rock
    Synonyms: billeg, inog, ingadozik, himbálózik, himbálódzik
  2. (intransitive, of a ship) to sway, to roll
    Synonyms: ringatózik, ringatódzik, dülöng, dülöngél, himbálódzik, himbálózik

Conjugation[edit]

conjugation of ring
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringok ringsz ring ringunk ringtok ringnak
Def. intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
2nd-p. o. ―
Past Indef. ringtam ringtál ringott ringtunk ringtatok ringtak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Condi­tional
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringnék ringnál ringna ringnánk ringnátok ringnának
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Sub­junc­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringjak ringj or
ringjál 		ringjon ringjunk ringjatok ringjanak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Infinitive ringni ringnom ringnod ringnia ringnunk ringnotok ringniuk
Other nonfinite
verb forms 		Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
ringás ringó ringott ― ringva ringhat

or

conjugation of ring
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringok ringasz ring ringunk ringotok ringanak
Def. intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
2nd-p. o. ―
Past Indef. ringottam ringottál ringott ringottunk ringottatok ringottak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Condi­tional
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringanék ringanál ringana ringanánk ringanátok ringanának
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Sub­junc­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringjak ringj or
ringjál 		ringjon ringjunk ringjatok ringjanak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Infinitive ringani ringanom ringanod ringania ringanunk ringanotok ringaniuk
Other nonfinite
verb forms 		Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
ringás ringó ringott ― ringva ringhat
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From English ring.[2]

Noun[edit]

ring (plural ringek)

  1. (dated, boxing) ring, boxing ring (space in which a boxing match is contested)
    Synonym: szorító
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ring ringek
accusative ringet ringeket
dative ringnek ringeknek
instrumental ringgel ringekkel
causal-final ringért ringekért
translative ringgé ringekké
terminative ringig ringekig
essive-formal ringként ringekként
essive-modal — —
inessive ringben ringekben
superessive ringen ringeken
adessive ringnél ringeknél
illative ringbe ringekbe
sublative ringre ringekre
allative ringhez ringekhez
elative ringből ringekből
delative ringről ringekről
ablative ringtől ringektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		ringé ringeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		ringéi ringekéi
Possessive forms of ring
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ringem ringjeim
2nd person sing. ringed ringjeid
3rd person sing. ringje ringjei
1st person plural ringünk ringjeink
2nd person plural ringetek ringjeitek
3rd person plural ringjük ringjeik

References[edit]

  1. ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN   (See also its second, revised, expanded edition published in 2021: →ISBN)
  2. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • (to roll, sway, swing): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (boxing ring): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (in economy, cf. cartel): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian[edit]

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Etymology 1[edit]

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈrɪŋ]
  • Hyphenation: ring

Noun[edit]

ring (first-person possessive ringku, second-person possessive ringmu, third-person possessive ringnya)

  1. (onomatopoeia) sound of bell.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Dutch ring, from Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Doublet of langsir.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈrɪŋ]
  • Hyphenation: ring

Noun[edit]

ring

  1. ring,
    1. a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
      Synonyms: cincin, gelang
    2. boxing ring.
  2. (colloquial) circle
    Synonym: lingkaran

Further reading[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringer, definite plural ringene)

  1. ring; a circular piece of material
  2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from ring


Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. imperative of ringe

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringar, definite plural ringane)

  1. ring; a circular piece of material
  2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from ring


Verb[edit]

ring

  1. imperative of ringja, ringje, ringa and ringe

References[edit]

Old Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring m

  1. ring, circle

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • “rink”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring m

  1. ring (object in the shape of a circle)

Descendants[edit]

Polish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From English ring, from Middle English ring, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rynek (“market, marketplace”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m inan

  1. (boxing) boxing ring

Declension[edit]

declension of ring
singular plural
nominative ring ringi
genitive ringu ringów
dative ringowi ringom
accusative ring ringi
instrumental ringiem ringami
locative ringu ringach
vocative ringu ringi

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • ring in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ring in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m (plural rings)

  1. Alternative form of ringue

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English ring.

Noun[edit]

rȉng m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏нг)

  1. the ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Declension[edit]

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English ring. Doublet of rancho.

Noun[edit]

ring m (plural rings)

  1. (boxing) ring

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • audio (en ring)
    		(file)

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Swedish ringer, from Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring c

  1. ring; a circular piece of material
  2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
  3. (mathematics) A ring, algebraic structure
  4. (mathematics) A ring, planar geometrical figure
  5. (astronomy) A ring, collection of material orbiting some planets
  6. Each of the (usually three) years in a Swedish gymnasium (highschool)
    Ann började nyss andra ring.
    Ann recently began her second year at the gymnasium.
Declension[edit]
Declension of ring 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ring ringen ringar ringarna
Genitive rings ringens ringars ringarnas
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. imperative of ringa.

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Noun[edit]

ring c (plural ringen, diminutive rinkje)

  1. ring, circle
  2. ring (jewelry)

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • “ring”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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