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English

Etymology

Arabic ?????? (rib?)

Noun

riba (uncountable)

1. (Muslim finance): interest or usury, which is haram (sinful) according to sharia law.

Anagrams

• Bair, Bari, Bria, RAIB, abir, abri, bari, rabi

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan riba, from Latin r?pa, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to tear, cut”).

Noun

riba f (plural ribes)

1. coast

Related terms

• ribera

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese riba, from Latin ripa (“bank”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?a?/

Noun

riba f (plural ribas)

1. (dated, geography) bank
2. (dated, geography) shore

Derived terms

Adverb

riba

1. up

Derived terms

• aínda por riba
• por riba
• por riba de

Related terms

• arriba

References

• “riba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “riba” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “riba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “riba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “riba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (riban).

Noun

r?ìba f (possessed form r?ìbar?)

1. bank interest, usury

Noun

r??b?? f (possessed form r??bàr?)

1. profit
2. benefit, gain, advantage

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay riba, from Arabic ?????? (riban).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?riba/
• Hyphenation: ri?ba

Noun

riba (first-person possessive ribaku, second-person possessive ribamu, third-person possessive ribanya)

1. (Islam) interest, usury.

   Synonyms: bunga, renten

Further reading

• “riba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• (ribà) IPA^(key): [r???b?]
• (rìba) IPA^(key): [?r??b?]

Noun

ribà f (plural rìbos) stress pattern 4

1. boundary (dividing line or location between two areas)

   šali?s ribà - frontier, border

2. limit

Declension

Synonyms

• (boundary): ežia, siena

Derived terms

(Adjectives)

• beribis
• ribotas

See also

• (limit): galas, pabaiga

References

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (riban).

Noun

riba f

1. interest (the price of credit)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan riba, from Latin r?pa, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to tear, cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ri?o]

Noun

riba f (plural ribas)

1. shore, bank

Related terms

• ribièra

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish arriba.

Preposition

riba

1. upon
2. above
3. on

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ryba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rîba/
• Hyphenation: ri?ba

Noun

r?ba f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fish (animal)

   grabežljiva riba - predator fish

2. (slang) girl, chick
3. (slang) (ribica, diminutive) vagina

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ryba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rì?ba/

Noun

ríba f

1. fish

Inflection

Further reading

• “riba”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Noun

riba f (plural ribas)

1. (obsolete, often found in compound for names of towns) shore; shoreline

Derived terms

• Ribadesella
• Ribadavia
• Ribagorza

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

riba (n class, plural riba)

1. interest
2. greed, avarice; usury

English

Alternative forms

• enterest (obsolete)
• interess (obsolete)
• intherest (pronunciation spelling, suggesting an Irish accent)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/, /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/, /??nt??st/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?est

Noun

interest (usually uncountable, plural interests)

1. (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]

2. (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act IV, sc 3:

     You shall have your desires with interest

3. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
4. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
5. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.

6. (countable) Something or someone one is interested in.

7. (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance
   • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:

     The conscience, indeed, is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest.

8. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
9. (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.

Synonyms

• (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed): cost of money, oker

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

interest (third-person singular simple present interests, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)

1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.

   It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.

   Action films don't really interest me.

2. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
   • 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck

     Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.

3. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.

Antonyms

• bore
• disinterest

Derived terms

• interested
• interesting

Translations

Further reading

• "interest" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 171.

Anagrams

• Steinert, ernstite, inertest, insetter, interset, sternite, tres-tine, trientes

Dutch

Alternative forms

• interesse (obsolete)
• intrest

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Doublet of interesse.

Pronunciation

Noun

interest m (plural interesten, diminutive interestje n)

1. (finance) interest

Synonyms

• rente

Latin

Verb

interest

1. third-person singular present active indicative of intersum

References

• interest in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• interest in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interest in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Noun

interest m (plural interests)

1. interest (great attention and concern from someone or something)