ris

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See also: Ris, RIs, RIS, ris', riś, rís, and rîş

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Cognate with Italian riccio, making it a doublet of rínxol.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ris m (plural risos)

  1. curl, ringlet, lock
    Synonyms: rull, rínxol
  2. loop
    Synonym: bucle
  3. (nautical) reef (rolled portion of sail)

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Cornish[edit]

Noun[edit]

ris f (singulative risen)

  1. rice

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ʁiːˀs/, [ʁiˀs]

Etymology 1[edit]

From late Old Norse rís, from Middle Low German rīs, from Old French ris, from Italian riso, from Latin oryza, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza).

Noun[edit]

ris c (singular definite risen, plural indefinite ris)

  1. rice
Inflection[edit]
Declension of ris
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ris risen ris risene
genitive ris' risens ris' risenes

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse hrís.

Noun[edit]

ris n (singular definite riset, plural indefinite ris)

  1. twig
  2. brushwood
  3. negative criticism
Inflection[edit]
Declension of ris
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ris riset ris risene
genitive ris' risets ris' risenes

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle French, from Old French ris (“reef”) for earlier *rifs (nom. sg. and acc. pl.), probably borrowed from Old Norse rif (“reef”). See English reef for more.

Noun[edit]

ris m (plural ris)

  1. (nautical) reef (portion of a sail)

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle French ris, of unknown origin.[1] Gilles Ménage considered it a likely corruption of ridez m pl, modern ridés (“wrinkled”).[2]

Noun[edit]

ris m (plural ris)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) sweetbread (of a lamb or calf)

Etymology 3[edit]

From Latin rīsus (“laughter”).

Noun[edit]

ris m (plural ris)

  1. (archaic) laughter, laugh
    Synonym: rire
  2. (literary, in the plural) pleasures

Etymology 4[edit]

See the lemma.

Verb[edit]

ris

  1. inflection of rire:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. first/second-person singular past historic

References[edit]

  1. ^ “ris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  2. ^ Gilles Ménage (1694) Dictionnaire etymologique ou origine de la langue françoise‎[1], page 627

Further reading[edit]

Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *risą, a zero-grade formation from *rīsaną (“to rise”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ris n (genitive singular riss, nominative plural ris)

  1. rising (the process of something rising)
  2. attic, part of a house directly under the (slanting) roof
    Synonyms: háaloft, loft, þakhæð, rishæð, hanabjálki
  3. climax (of a story)

Declension[edit]

declension of ris
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ris risið ris risin
accusative ris risið ris risin
dative risi risinu risum risunum
genitive riss rissins risa risanna

Derived terms[edit]

Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

ris (uncountable)

  1. rice

Irish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Irish ris (“a piece of news, tidings, story, tale”).

Noun[edit]

ris f (genitive singular rise, nominative plural rise)

  1. (literary) report, tidings
  2. (literary) story, tale
Declension[edit]
Declension of ris

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ris rise
Vocative a ris a rise
Genitive rise ris
Dative ris rise

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an ris na rise
Genitive na rise na ris
Dative leis an ris

don ris

leis na rise

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Irish ris (“bare, exposed, uncovered”, adjective).

Adverb[edit]

ris

  1. bare, uncovered, exposed

Etymology 3[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

ris (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

  1. Alternative form of leis

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
ris not applicable not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

Kashubian[edit]

Ris.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *rysь. Cognates include Polish ryś and Czech rys.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈris/
  • Hyphenation: ris

Noun[edit]

ris m anim

  1. lynx (felid of the genus Lynx)
    Synonym: luks

References[edit]

  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “ryś”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

Norman[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old French ris for earlier *rifs (plural), probably borrowed from Old Norse rif (“reef”), from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”)

Noun[edit]

ris m (plural ris)

  1. (Jersey, nautical) reef
    Synonym: ris d'vaile
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

ris

  1. first-person singular preterite of rithe

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

ris m (definite singular risen)

  1. rice

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

ris n (definite singular riset, indefinite plural ris, definite plural risa or risene)

  1. a twig; a bundle of twigs used as a punishing device

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

ris m (definite singular risen)

  1. a spanking given to someone through the use of a birch or the palm of one’s hand

Verb[edit]

ris

  1. imperative of rise

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse rís, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza). Akin to English rice.

Noun[edit]

ris m (definite singular risen)

  1. rice
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse hrís

Noun[edit]

ris n (definite singular riset, indefinite plural ris, definite plural risa)

  1. a bundle of sticks or twigs
  2. a spanking

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

ris

  1. present tense of risa
  2. imperative of risa

References[edit]

Occitan[edit]

Occitan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia oc

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio(file)

Noun[edit]

ris m (plural ris)

  1. (cooking, Gascony) rice

References[edit]

  • Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 119.

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

ris

  1. Alternative form of ri

Usage notes[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

ris

  1. with him
  2. with it

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *rysь.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rȉs m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏с)

  1. lynx

Declension[edit]

Declension of ris
singular plural
nominative ris risovi
genitive risa risova
dative risu risovima
accusative risa risove
vocative rise risovi
locative risu risovima
instrumental risom risovima

Slovene[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *rysь.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rȋs m anim

  1. lynx

Inflection[edit]

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. rís
gen. sing. rísa
singular dual plural
nominative rís rísa rísi
accusative rísa rísa ríse
genitive rísa rísov rísov
dative rísu rísoma rísom
locative rísu rísih rísih
instrumental rísom rísoma rísi

Further reading[edit]

  • “ris”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hrís

Noun[edit]

ris n

  1. small shrubs, such as blueberry and lingonberry, mostly in compounds
    blåbärsris ― blueberry bush
    lingonris ― lingonberry bush
  2. twigs in a heap or as for a broom
    De lade sina liggunderlag på björkriset.
    They put their hiking mattresses on the birch twigs.
  3. a spanking
    Han skall få smaka riset för det här.
    He'll get birched ("taste the twigs") for this.
  4. negative criticism
    Föreställningen fick mycket ris.
    The performance got much negative criticism.
    Antonym: ros

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse rís, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza). Akin to English rice.

Noun[edit]

ris n

  1. rice; a plant
  2. rice; food from the rice plant
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Ultimately from Arabic رِزْمَة‎ (rizma, “package”).

Noun[edit]

ris n

  1. a ream: 500 sheets (of paper)
Declension[edit]
Declension of ris 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ris riset ris risen
Genitive ris risets ris risens

Further reading[edit]

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