rya

See also: RYA

English

Hand-made Finnish rya rug, 1936

Etymology

From Swedish rya (“thick cloth”).

Noun

rya (plural ryas)

1. A Scandinavian knotted-pile woollen rug, used as bed-cover and tapestry.
   • 2008, Kirsti Salo-Mattila, “Chapter 12: Transformations in the Art of Rya Making”, in Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn, editor, Reinventing Art of Everyday Making, Peter Lang, page 217:

     People were proud of art ryas designed by textile artists and woven by professionals, and they themselves wove copies of published traditional compositions, or executed new craft ryas that were designed for the purpose by textile artists.

Translations

Scandinavian woollen rug

• Finnish: ryijy (fi)
• Polish: rya f
• Swedish: rya (sv) c

Anagrams

• -ary, Ary, Ayr, Ray, ary, ayr, ra'y, ray, yar, γ ray, γ-ray

Danish

Etymology

From Swedish rya. Related to ru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁyːa]

Noun

rya c (singular definite ryaen, plural indefinite ryaer)

1. rya

Declension

Declension of rya

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rya	ryaen	ryaer	ryaerne
genitive	ryas	ryaens	ryaers	ryaernes

Derived terms

• ryatæppe

References

• “rya” in Den Danske Ordbog

Franco-Provençal

Noun

rya (Fribourgeois)

1. alternative form of roua (“wheel”)

References

• roue in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

Herero

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a.

Verb

rya

1. to eat

Japanese

Romanization

rya

1. The hiragana syllable りゃ (rya) or the katakana syllable リャ (rya) in Hepburn romanization.

Mwani

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a.

Verb

-rya (infinitive kurya)

1. to eat

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a.

Verb

-ryá (infinitive kuryá, perfective -rîye)

1. to eat

Derived terms

• icyokurya (Rwanda) / icokurya (Rundi)

Swedish

Noun

rya c

1. rya
2. (dated) alternative form of ryd (“forest clearing”)

Declension

Declension of rya

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rya	ryas
	definite	ryan	ryans
plural	indefinite	ryor	ryors
	definite	ryorna	ryornas

Derived terms

• ryamatta

Descendants

• → English: rya
• → Finnish: ryijy
• → Danish: rya

References

• “rya”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “rya”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “rya”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)