ruban

See also: rubán

English

Noun

ruban (plural rubans)

1. (obsolete) A ribbon.
   • 1770, François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, Dialogues of the Dead. A new translation, etc., page 110:

     […] and at the same time to suspend from a ruban at your neck a basket full of little Spaniels […]

French

Etymology

From a form of Middle Dutch ringhband, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz + *bandą, *bandiz (“band, fetter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.bɑ̃/

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Noun

ruban m (plural rubans)

1. band, stripe
2. ribbon
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Léon, par terre, à côté d'elle, rencontra sous sa main un ruban de soie ponceau.

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Derived terms

• ruban adhésif
• ruban de masquage
• scie à ruban

Descendants

• → Persian: روبان (rubân)

Further reading

• “ruban”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Verb

ruban

1. inflection of rubir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.ban/
• Rhymes: -uban
• Hyphenation: rù‧ban

Verb

ruban

1. apocopic form of rubano (“they steal”)

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English ruban (“ribbon”), from Middle French ruban.

Noun

ruban m (plural rubanau, not mutable)

1. ribbon

Mutation

Mutated forms of ruban

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
ruban	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged