ren

See also: Ren, rén, rěn, rèn, rền, and REN

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɛn/

Etymology 1

From Latin ren.

Noun

ren (plural renes)

  1. (anatomy) A kidney.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Egyptian rn,

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Noun

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.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From French renne.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ren m (plural rens)

  1. reindeer

Chuukese

Preposition

ren

  1. with (third person singular)

Cimbrian

Verb

ren

  1. to speak
  2. to talk

References

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

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rein.

Noun

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

  1. a strip of unplowed land serving as a boundary between estates
Synonyms
  • agerren

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hreinn (noun).

Noun

ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rener)

  1. reindeer
Synonyms

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hreinn (adjective).

Adjective

ren

  1. clean
Inflection
Inflection of ren
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular ren — —2
Neuter singular rent — —2
Plural rene — —2
Definite attributive1 rene — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛn
  • IPA(key): /rɛn/
  • audio(file)

Noun

ren m (plural rennen, diminutive rennetje n)

  1. The place where chickens are kept.

Verb

ren

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rein (“kidney”)

Noun

ren

  1. kidney

Interlingue

Noun

ren

  1. kidney

Japanese

Romanization

ren

  1. Rōmaji transcription of れん

Kurdish

Noun

ren ?

  1. (anatomy) hip

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”), related to Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn, “heart, midriff, mind”) and Tocharian cognates.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

rēn m (genitive rēnis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) kidney
    1. (this term almost always plural in (ancient) Latin. See B. L. Gildersleeve's Pg. 35, Oxford Latin Dictionary Pg. 1614)

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative rēn rēnēs
genitive rēnis rēnum
dative rēnī rēnibus
accusative rēnem rēnēs
ablative rēne rēnibus
vocative rēn rēnēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • 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, 1883–1887)
  • ren in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. ↑ Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, Volumes 4-6

Mandarin

Romanization

ren

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

Usage notes

  • 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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • rein (Nynorsk also)

Etymology

From Old Norse hreinn

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /reːn/, [ɾeːn]

Adjective

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

  1. clean
  2. pure

Antonyms

Derived terms

References

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛn/

Etymology 1

Noun

ren m anim

  1. reindeer
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Latin rhenium

Noun

Chemical element
Re Previous: wolfram (W)
Next: osm (Os)

ren m inan

  1. rhenium
Declension

Romanian

Un ren

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ren/

Noun

ren m (plural reni)

  1. reindeer

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xrěnъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rên/

Noun

rȅn m (Cyrillic spelling ре̏н)

  1. horseradish

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hreinn (noun).

Noun

ren c

  1. reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
Declension
Declension of ren 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ren renen renar renarna
Genitive rens renens renars renarnas
Hyponyms
  • härk c
  • renko c
  • rentjur c
  • sarv c
  • vaja c

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

ren (comparative renare, superlative renast)

  1. clean; not dirty
  2. pure
Declension
Inflection of ren
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular ren renare renast
Neuter singular rent renare renast
Plural rena renare renast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 rene renare renaste
All rena renare renaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
Antonyms

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English rain.

Noun

ren

  1. rain
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 2:5 (translation here):
      ...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.
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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

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Verb

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