rubin
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin rubinus (“ruby, carbuncle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹuːbɪn/
Noun
rubin (plural rubins)
- (obsolete) A ruby.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- And, when she spake,
Sweete wordes, like dropping honny, she did shed;
And twixt the perles and rubins softly brake
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rubin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Danish
Declension
Declension of rubin
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | rubin | rubinen | rubiner | rubinerne |
genitive | rubins | rubinens | rubiners | rubinernes |
Hungarian

rubin
Alternative forms
- rubint (folksy)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrubin]
- Hyphenation: ru‧bin
- Rhymes: -in
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | rubin | rubinok |
accusative | rubint | rubinokat |
dative | rubinnak | rubinoknak |
instrumental | rubinnal | rubinokkal |
causal-final | rubinért | rubinokért |
translative | rubinná | rubinokká |
terminative | rubinig | rubinokig |
essive-formal | rubinként | rubinokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | rubinban | rubinokban |
superessive | rubinon | rubinokon |
adessive | rubinnál | rubinoknál |
illative | rubinba | rubinokba |
sublative | rubinra | rubinokra |
allative | rubinhoz | rubinokhoz |
elative | rubinból | rubinokból |
delative | rubinról | rubinokról |
ablative | rubintól | rubinoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
rubiné | rubinoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
rubinéi | rubinokéi |
Possessive forms of rubin | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | rubinom | rubinjaim |
2nd person sing. | rubinod | rubinjaid |
3rd person sing. | rubinja | rubinjai |
1st person plural | rubinunk | rubinjaink |
2nd person plural | rubinotok | rubinjaitok |
3rd person plural | rubinjuk | rubinjaik |
Further reading
- rubin in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin rubinus (“ruby”), from Latin rubeus (“red”).
Noun
rubin m (oblique plural rubins, nominative singular rubins, nominative plural rubin)
- ruby (gemstone)
Descendants
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈru.bin/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ubin
- Syllabification: ru‧bin
Declension
Derived terms
Romanian
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin rubīnus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rǔbiːn/
- Hyphenation: ru‧bin
Declension
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Declension
Declension of rubin | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | rubin | rubinen | rubiner | rubinerna |
Genitive | rubins | rubinens | rubiners | rubinernas |
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