ren

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Learned borrowing from Latin ren. Doublet of rein (“kidney”).

ren (plural renes)

1. (anatomy) A kidney.

• renal

Learned borrowing from Egyptian rn,

ren (plural rens)

1. (Egyptian mythology) One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.

• -ern, -ner-, Ern, NRE, RNE, ern, ner

• rên, rêu, rêj, rê (Gheg)
• re (Standard Albanian)

The Tosk (Çamërisht, Arbëreshë/Arvanite) and also Old Albanian form of Standard Albanian re (“cloud, clouds”).

ren f

1. cloud(s)
2. haze, mist
3. overcast

• re f
• rij, ritë
• vrenjt
• vrenjtur
• vrëndë f
• vranësi f
• rend
• përrua m, përrue m
• përrenj m, përronj m

From French renne.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈrən/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈrɛn/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈren/

ren m (plural rens)

1. reindeer

ren

1. with (third person singular)

ren

1. to speak
2. to talk

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

• IPA^(key): /reːˀn/, [ˈʁæˀn]

From Old Norse hreinn m, from Proto-Germanic *hrainaz, cognate with Norwegian rein, Swedish ren, Old English hrān.

ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rener)

1. reindeer

   Synonym: rensdyr

• rensdyr

• “ren,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse rein f, from Proto-Germanic *rainō, cognate with Norwegian rein, Swedish ren, German Rain (English rean is from Old Norse).

ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rene or rener)

1. (rare) a strip of unplowed land serving as a boundary between estates

   Synonym: agerren

• agerren

• “ren,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse hreinn (“clean”), from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz, cognate with Norwegian rein, Swedish ren, German rein, Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains).

ren (neuter rent, plural and definite singular attributive rene)

1. clean (without dirt)
2. pure, mere, sheer (without any added elements)
3. pure (morally)

• “ren,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /rɛn/

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• Hyphenation: ren
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Homophone: Ren

From Middle Dutch rinne, renne.

ren f (plural rennen, diminutive rennetje n)

1. A run; an enclosed area where small or mid-sized livestock such as poultry are kept.

• hoenderren
• kippenren
• konijnenren
• varkensren

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ren

1. first-person singular present indicative of rennen
2. imperative of rennen

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ren, from Latin rēs nāta, neutral plural of rēs nātum, Latin no things.

• IPA^(key): /ˈreŋ/

ren

1. (now literary) nothing

   Synonym: nada

   Antonym: todo

• “ren” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ren” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ren” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ren” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

From French rein (“kidney”).

ren

1. kidney

ren (plural renes)

1. kidney

ren

1. Rōmaji transcription of れん

• rien

Uncertain. Several etymologies proposed:[1]

• From Proto-Italic *hrēn, cognate with Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn, “heart, midriff, mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰrḗn (“an internal part of the body”).
• Earlier *srēn, cognate with Old Prussian straunay, Lithuanian strė́nos, srė́nos f pl (“loins”), Latvian striena (“loins”) and Avestan 𐬭𐬁𐬥𐬀-‎ (rāna-, “thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *srḗn (“hip, loins”). Further disputed connection with Ancient Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis, “spine, chine”).[2]
• Cognate with Tocharian A āriñc, Tocharian B arañce (“heart”) and Hittite 𒄩𒄩𒊑 (ḫa-ḫa-ri- /ḫaḫri-/, “lungs ~ midriff ?”) (exact meaning uncertain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂-ri-, *h₂eh₂-r-en- (“an internal organ”). Compare also Old Irish áru and Welsh aren (“kidney”).[3][4][5]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reːn/, [reːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ren/, [rɛn]

rēn m (genitive rēnis); third declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) kidney

Third-declension noun.

• rēnālis
• rēniculus
• rēnunculus

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: rână
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: rene
    • → Sicilian: rini
• North-Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: ren
  • Venetian: reno
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: ren
  • Old French: rein, rain
    • Middle French: rein
      • French: rein
    • Norman: rein
    • Walloon: rino, rno, rin
    • → English: rein
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Occitan: ren
• Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Aragonese: renera
  • Old Portuguese: rẽes (from the plural)
    • Galician: ren, rin; rens, res (from the plural)
    • Portuguese: rim
  • Spanish: rene (dated)
• Sardinian:
  • rene
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rēna
  • Gascon: rea, arrea, arreia, arria, arriá, arrenha
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rēnile
  • Old Portuguese: *rẽil
    • Galician: ril, rinle
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rēniō (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Gheg Albanian: rrâni
  • → English: ren (learned)
  • → Interlingua: ren

• “ren”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ren”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ren in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ren in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

ren

1. Nonstandard spelling of rén.
2. Nonstandard spelling of rěn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of rèn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

ren

1. past of jean

• rein (Nynorsk also)

From Old Norse hreinn.

IPA^(key): /reːn/, [ɾeːn]

ren (neuter singular rent, definite singular and plural rene, comparative renere, indefinite superlative renest, definite superlative reneste)

1. clean
2. pure

• uren

• “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

from Latin rēnes < rēn, from Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”).

• IPA^(key): /ren/

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ren m (plural rens)

1. (anatomy) kidney

• lomb
• ronhon

• arnelh (Gascon)

From Latin rem, accusative of rēs (“thing”). Compare Catalan res (“nothing”), French rien (“nothing”).

ren

1. (Provençal, Limousin) nothing

• res
• arren

• IPA^(key): /rɛŋ/

ren m

1. kidney

• IPA^(key): /rɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: ren
• Homophone: Ren

Borrowed from North Germanic; compare Norwegian Bokmål rein, Swedish ren.

ren m anim

1. reindeer (Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

   Synonym: renifer

Borrowed from Latin rhenium.

ren m inan

1. rhenium

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

From French renne, from Swedish ren, from Old Norse hreinn.

• IPA^(key): /ren/

ren m (plural reni)

1. reindeer

From Proto-Slavic *xrěnъ.

• IPA^(key): /rên/

rȅn m (Cyrillic spelling ре̏н)

1. horseradish

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From Old Norse hreinn (noun).

ren c

1. reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
2. (chiefly in compounds) a strip of land around an edge (of a road or field or the like)

• härk c
• renko c
• rentjur c
• sarv c
• vaja c

• dikesren
• vägren
• åkerren

From Old Norse hreinn (“clean”), from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz.

ren (comparative renare, superlative renast)

1. clean; not dirty
2. pure

• oren
• smutsig

• ren in Svensk ordbok.

• ner

From English rain.

ren

1. rain
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:5:

     ...i no gat diwai na gras samting i kamap long graun yet, long wanem, em i no salim ren i kam daun yet. Na i no gat man bilong wokim gaden.

     →New International Version translation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɛn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐɛŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹɛŋ˧˧]

ren • (蓮, 𨕡)

1. threading

ren • (蓮, 𨕡)

1. to thread; lace; weave

ren

1. last year

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 155

From Mandarin 人.

• IPA^(key): [ɻə̃]

ren

1. person

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN