rud

See also: Rud, RUD, and rúd

English

Etymology

From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (“to be ruddy”) (compare rudu (“redness”)), from Proto-Germanic *rudjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”) (compare red; cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹʌd/
  • Rhymes: -ʌd

Noun

rud (uncountable)

  1. redness; blush
  2. ruddle; red ochre
  3. Alternative form of rudd (the fish).

Verb

rud (third-person singular simple present ruds, present participle rudding, simple past and past participle rudded)

  1. (intransitive) To become red; redden.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make red.
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See also

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 rud in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish rét.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɾˠʊd̪ˠ/

Noun

rud m (genitive singular ruda, nominative plural rudaí)

  1. thing
    1. material object
    2. matter, circumstance; act, event, affair, idea
  2. person, creature
  3. means, substance
    1. benefit, gain
    2. thing of consequence
    3. way of acting
  4. thing asked for
  5. concern, sorrow
  6. affection
  7. wit, understanding

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • anrud (“great quantity or number; too much concern, excessive desire”)
  • céard (“what”, interrogative)
  • éard, séard (“what”, relative)
  • fo-rud (“odd, incidental thing”)
  • rud beag (“a little, a bit”)

References

  • "rud" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “rét” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish rét.

Noun

rud m (genitive singular ruid, plural rudan)

  1. thing

Derived terms

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “rét” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *rǫdъ (Bulgarian руд (rud), Polish rędzy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rûːd/

Adjective

rȗd (definite rȗdī, Cyrillic spelling ру̑д)

  1. curly, shaggy, locky
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *rudъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rûːd/

Adjective

rȗd (definite rȗdī, Cyrillic spelling ру̑д)

  1. reddish-brown, carroty, foxy
Declension

References

  • “rud” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “rud” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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