different between reis vs reif

English

Alternative forms

• rais, ras

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (ra??s, “head, chief, leader”)

Noun

reis (plural reises)

1. (historical) The holder of a Turkish military rank akin to that of naval captain.

Translations

Anagrams

• EIRs, Eris, Iser, SIer, Seri, eirs, ires, rise, sire

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r??i?s]

Noun

reis (plural [please provide])

1. journey

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Catalan

Noun

reis

1. plural of rei

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?i?s/
• Hyphenation: reis
• Rhymes: -?i?s
• Homophone: rijs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch reise, from Old Dutch *reisa, from Proto-West Germanic *raisu.

Noun

reis f or m (plural reizen, diminutive reisje n)

1. travel
2. trip, tour

Derived terms

• reizen
• bootreis
• busreis
• dromenreis
• droomreis
• groepsreis
• huwelijksreis
• motorreis
• reisverzekering
• reisbureau
• reischeque
• schoolreis
• treinreis

Descendants

• Afrikaans: reis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

reis

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

Anagrams

• Iers, Sier, sier

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *raici, of Baltic origin. Compare Lithuanian rietas (“thigh”), rietai. Cognates include Finnish reisi.

Noun

reis (genitive reie, partitive reit)

1. (anatomy) thigh

Declension

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German reise

Noun

reis (genitive reisi, partitive reisi)

1. trip, journey

Declension

(humorous, poetic)

Derived terms

• reisibüroo

Galician

Noun

reis

1. plural of rei

Latin

Etymology 1

From reus.

Noun

re?s f

1. dative/ablative plural of rea

Etymology 2

From r?s.

Noun

re?s m

1. dative/ablative plural of reus

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

reis

1. imperative of reise

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

reis f (definite singular reisa, indefinite plural reiser, definite plural reisene)

1. Alternative form of reise

Etymology 2

Verb

reis

1. imperative of reise

Etymology 3

Verb

reis

1. past of risa

Old French

Noun

reis m

1. nominative singular of rei
   • circa 1250, Marie de France, Chevrefeuille

     Li reis Mars esteit curuciez

     King Marc was furious

2. oblique plural of rei

Old Occitan

Noun

reis m pl

1. inflection of rei:
   1. nominative plural
   2. oblique singular

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???j?/

Noun

reis m

1. plural of rei
2. Obsolete spelling of réis

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (ra??s, “head, chief, leader”).

Noun

reis (definite accusative reisi, plural reisler)

1. (obsolete) president

Synonyms

• ba?kan

Welsh

Alternative forms

• rheis, rhis, ris (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French ris (possibly via Middle English rys, compare modern English rice).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rei?s/

Noun

reis m (uncountable, not mutable)

1. rice

Derived terms

• corhedydd y caeau reis (“paddyfield pipit (Anthus rufulus)”)
• gwyfyn reis (“rice moth (Corcyra cephalonica)”)
• paur reis (“rice paper”)
• pwyth reis (“rice stitch”)
• reis brown (“brown rice”)
• reis gwyn (“white rice”)
• reis gwyllt (“wild rice”)
• reis miled (“smilo-grass (Oryzopsis miliacea)”)
• reis wedi'i ffrio ag wy (“egg-fried rice”)
• reis y gwter (“cut-grass (Leersia oryzoides)”)

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “reis”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From late Old Norse reisa, from Middle Low German reise.

Noun

reis f

1. Journey.

Synonyms

• fäl

Derived terms

• snipp-räis

Etymology 2

From Old Norse reisa (“raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raizijan?.

Verb

reis (preterite reist)

1. (transitive) To raise, to lever, to lift.

Synonyms

• (to lift): löft
• (to raise): riit

English

Alternative forms

• rief

Etymology

From Middle English ref, reaf, reif, from Old English r?af (“plunder, spoil, booty, raiment, garment, robe, vestment, armor”), from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raub?, *raubaz (“rape, robbery”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to rip, tear”).

Cognate with Scots reif, rief (“robbery, depredation, spoliation”), Saterland Frisian roowje (“loot, rob”), Dutch roof (“spoil, booty, robbery”), German Raub (“robbery, spoils, plunder”). See also reave, robe.

Noun

reif (uncountable)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Robbery.
   • c. 1524,, a letter, recorded in The History of Scotland (John Hill Burton, 1873), volume 3, page 109:

     The opposition, which, as we shall see, was headed by Archbishop Beaton, protested against the "daily slaughters, murders, reifs, thefts, depredations, and heavy attemptates, that are daily and hourly committed within this realm in fault of justice."

   • c. 1577–1587, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles:

     […] meaning to live by reif of other mennes goodes, wherein they have no manner of propertie.

   • 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley:

     […] the lawless thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands, had been in fellowship together by reason of their surnames for the committing of divers thefts, reifs, and herships.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:reif.

References

• reif in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -fier, FIRE, Fier, Frie, fier, fire, refi, rief, rife

German

Etymology

From Old High German r?fi, akin to Old Saxon r?pi (Modern Dutch rijp).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??f/

Adjective

reif (comparative reifer, superlative am reifsten)

1. ripe
2. mature

Declension

Antonyms

• unreif

Related terms

• Reife

Further reading

• “reif” in Duden online
• “reif” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “reif”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Icelandic

Verb

reif

1. first-person singular past indicative of rífa
2. third-person singular past indicative of rífa

Luxembourgish

Verb

reif

1. second-person singular imperative of reiwen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• reaf, ræf, ref, reve, raf, ræve, rave, reafe

Etymology

From Old English r?af, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz, *raub?, *raub?. Doublet of robe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??f/, /r??v/

Noun

reif (plural reves)

1. A piece of clothing or gear, especially priestly.
2. (rare) pillaging, looting; intense destruction.
3. (rare) loot, spoils; the fruit of success.
4. (rare) destructiveness; the quality of being damaging.

Descendants

• English: reif, reaf, rief
• Scots: reif, rief, reiff, refe, ref

References

• “r?f, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
• “r?f, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Scots

Alternative forms

• rief, reiff, refe, ref

Etymology

From Middle English reif, from Old English r?af, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz.

Noun

reif

1. robbery
   • 1809, The Sang of the Outlaw Murray, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Historical ballads (Walter Scott), page 18:

     The man that wons yon Foreste intill,

     He lives by reif and felonie !