ruby

See also: Ruby

English

A ruby (gem).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɹuːbi]
• Rhymes: -uːbi

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French rubi, from Latin rubeus (“red”).

Noun

ruby (countable and uncountable, plural rubies)

1. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
   • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 128:

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

2. (obsolete) A red spinel.
3. A deep red colour.

   ruby colour:  

   • Shakespeare

     the natural ruby of your cheeks

4. (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
5. (uncountable, printing, Britain, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

   Synonym: agate (US)

6. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
7. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.

Derived terms

• balas ruby
• Colorado ruby
• rubasse
• rubicund
• rubious

• rubric
• ruby port
• ruby spinel
• ruby wedding
• ruby-throated hummingbird
• star ruby

Related terms

• corundum
• rouge

Translations

type of gem

• Afrikaans: robyn
• Albanian: rubin (sq) m
• Arabic: يَاقُوت‎ (ar) m (yāqūt)
• Armenian: սուտակ (hy) (sutak)
• Assamese: মাণিক (manik), ডালিমা (dalima), চুনী (suni)
• Asturian: rubín m
• Azerbaijani: yaqut (az), rubin
• Belarusian: рубі́н m (rubín)
• Bulgarian: руби́н (bg) m (rubín)
• Burmese: ကျောက်နီ (my) (kyaukni)
• Catalan: robí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅寶石 (zh), 红宝石 (zh) (hóngbǎoshí)

• Crimean Tatar: yahut, qan taş
• Czech: rubín (cs) m
• Danish: rubin c
• Dutch: robijn (nl) m, n
• Esperanto: rubeno (eo)
• Estonian: rubiin
• Faroese: rubinur m
• Finnish: rubiini (fi)
• French: rubis (fr) m
• Galician: rubí m
• Georgian: ლალი (lali), ბადახში (ka) (badaxši)
• German: Rubin (de) m
• Greek: ρουμπίνι (el) n (roumpíni)
• Hebrew: אֹדֶם‎ (he) m (ódem)
• Hindi: माणिक्य (hi) (māṇikya), याकूत (hi) (yāqūt)
• Hungarian: rubin (hu)
• Icelandic: rúbín m
• Irish: rúibín m
• Italian: rubino (it) m
• Japanese: ルビー (ja) (rubī)
• Kazakh: рубин (rwbïn), лағыл (lağıl)
• Khmer: ត្បូងទទឹម (tboong tɔtɨm)

• Korean: 루비 (ko) (rubi)
• Latvian: rubīns m
• Lezgi: лаал (laal)
• Lithuanian: rubinas m
• Malay: delima
• Maori: rūpi
• Mongolian: бадмаараг (mn) (badmaarag)
• Norman: rubis m
• Norwegian: rubin (no) m
• Persian: یاقوت‎ (fa) (yâqut)
• Polish: rubin (pl) m
• Portuguese: rubi (pt) m
• Romanian: rubin (ro)
• Russian: руби́н (ru) m (rubín)
• Scottish Gaelic: rubaidh
• Serbo-Croatian: рубин m, rubin (sh) m
• Sinhalese: රතුකැට (ratukæṭa)
• Slovak: rubín (sk) m
• Slovene: rubin (sl) m
• Spanish: rubí (es) m
• Swahili: yakuti
• Swedish: rubin (sv) c
• Tagalog: rubi
• Tajik: ёқут (yoqut)
• Telugu: కెంపు (te) (kempu)
• Thai: ทับทิม (th) (táp-tim)
• Turkish: yakut (tr)
• Ukrainian: рубі́н m (rubín)
• Urdu: ياقوت‎ (yāqūt)
• Uyghur: ياقۇت‎ (yaqut)
• Uzbek: yoqut (uz)
• Vietnamese: hồng ngọc
• Volapük: rubain
• Welsh: rhuddem m, f
• Yiddish: רובין‎ m (rubin)

colour

• Dutch: robijnrood (nl)
• Finnish: rubiininpunainen
• Georgian: წითელი ფერი (c̣iteli peri)
• German: Weinrot n, Rubinrot n
• Hungarian: rubinvörös
• Icelandic: rúbínrauður m (adjective)

• Polish: rubinowy (pl)
• Romanian: rubiniu (ro)
• Russian: руби́новый (ru) (rubínovyj)
• Turkish: yakudî
• Volapük: rubainaköl

5½-point type — see agate

Adjective

ruby (comparative more ruby, superlative most ruby)

1. Of a deep red colour.

Translations

of a deep red colour

• Finnish: rubiininpunainen
• German: weinrot (de), rubinrot (de), tiefrot
• Icelandic: rúbínrauður

• Polish: rubinowy (pl)
• Romanian: rubiniu (ro)
• Volapük: rubainakölik

Verb

ruby (third-person singular simple present rubies, present participle rubying, simple past and past participle rubied)

1. (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine
• carbuncle
• corundum
• spinel
• Ruby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “Ruby” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database^[2], 1997–.
• “ruby”, in Mindat.org‎^[3], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

Etymology 2

From the British 5.5-point font Ruby, used for annotations in printed documents.

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

2. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.

   Synonym: rubi

Translations

pronunciation guide

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旁註標記, 旁注标记 (pángzhù biāojì), 註音標示, 注音标示 (zhùyīn biāoshì), 加註音, 加注音 (jiāzhùyīn), ruby (zh)

• Japanese: 振り仮名 (ja) (ふりがな, furigana), ルビ (ja) (rubi)
• Russian: ага́т (ru) m (agát), (indeclinable) ру́би (ru) m (rúbi)

See also

• furigana
• yomigana
• pinyin
• Zhuyin
• Ruby characters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -bury, Bury, bury

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Middle English

Verb

ruby

1. Alternative form of robben

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Silesian

Alternative forms

• hruby

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *grubъ.

Adjective

ruby

1. fat, thick