rim

See also: Rim, rím, Rím, rim-, and Řím

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪm/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪm

Etymology 1

From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).

Noun

rim (plural rims)

  1. An edge around something, especially when circular.
  2. (automotive, cycling) wheelrim
Translations
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Verb

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed) (transitive)

  1. To form a rim on.
  2. (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
    Palm trees rim the beach.
    A walking path rims the island.
  3. (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.
    The golf ball rimmed the cup.
    The basketball rimmed in and out.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English rēoma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-Germanic *reumô (“belt, thong”), from Proto-Indo-European *rew- (“to tear, dig, gather”). Cognate with Dutch riem (“a thong”), German Riemen (“a thong, band”), Swedish rem (“a thong, strap”).

Noun

rim (plural rims)

  1. (Britain dialectal) A membrane.
  2. (Britain dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
    • 1599, Shakespeare, “Act IV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand”, in King Henry V:
      Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.

Etymology 3

From a variation of ream.

Verb

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)

  1. (slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act.
    • 2008, Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me), page 216
      When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.
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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą.

Noun

rim c (singular definite rimen, not used in plural form)

  1. hoarfrost, rime

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse rím, from Middle Low German rim, from French rime (“rhyme”).

Noun

rim n (singular definite rimet, plural indefinite rim)

  1. rhyme
Inflection
Further reading

Etymology 3

See rime.

Verb

rim

  1. imperative of rime

Mizo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rim/

Noun

rim

  1. smell
  2. odour

Adverb

rim

  1. hard

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rím and (Old?) French rime

Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima or rimene)

  1. a rhyme
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrím

Noun

rim m (definite singular rimen, uncountable)
rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)

  1. rime (frost)
Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rím and (Old?) French rime.

Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima)

  1. a rhyme
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrím

Noun

rim n, m (definite singular rimet or rimen) (uncountable)

  1. rime (frost)
Derived terms

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“number, count, series”), from Proto-Indo-European *re(i)- (“to reason, count”). Akin to Old Frisian rīm, Old Saxon -rīm, Old High German rīm, Icelandic rím.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riːm/

Noun

rīm n

  1. a number, counting, reckoning, numeral; calendar
    Rim miclade monna mægþe geond middan-geard — Cædmon’s Metrical Paraphrase
  2. sum; enumeration

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

rins

Noun

rim m (plural rins)

  1. kidney
  2. (in the plural) small of the back

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą.

Noun

rim n

  1. rhyme

Declension

Declension of rim 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative rim rimmet rim rimmen
Genitive rims rimmets rims rimmens

See also

Volapük

Noun

rim (plural rims)

  1. rhyme

Declension

See also

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ríːm] (example of pronunciation)
    Rhymes: -íːm

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą.

Noun

rim n

  1. frost, hoarfrost

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą.

Noun

rim n

  1. story, poem, saga
  2. rumour

Synonyms

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