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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

Etymology

From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin pr?fectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from profici? (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?f?it, IPA^(key): /?p??f?t/
• (General American) enPR: pr?f?it, IPA^(key): /?p??f?t/
• Homophone: prophet
• Rhymes: -?f?t
• Hyphenation: prof?it

Noun

profit (countable and uncountable, plural profits)

1. (accounting, economics) Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
   • October 2, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

     Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.
2. (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 1 Corinthians vii. 35

     This I speak for your own profit.
3. (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).

Usage notes

Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative, the term loss is preferred. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics.Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.

Synonyms

• gain

Antonyms

• loss

Derived terms

• for-profit
• non-profit

Translations

Verb

profit (third-person singular simple present profits, present participle profiting, simple past and past participle profited)

1. (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).

   • The word preached did not profit them.

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently those excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

2. (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
3. (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• proficiency
• proficient

Further reading

• profit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• profit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• forpit

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pr?fectus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p?u?fit/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /p?o?fit/

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. benefit, advantage

Derived terms

• aprofitar
• bon profit
• profitós

Further reading

• “profit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “profit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “profit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “profit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French profit, from Latin pr?fectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.fi/

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. profit, benefit

Derived terms

Further reading

• “profit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Profit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?profit]
• Hyphenation: pro?fit
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

profit (plural profitok)

1. profit (total income or cash flow minus expenditures)

   Synonyms: haszon, nyereség

Declension

References

Further reading

• profit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norman

Etymology

From Old French profit, from Latin profectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”).

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. (Jersey) profit

Romanian

Etymology

From French profit.

Noun

profit n (plural profituri)

1. profit

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?fi?t/
• Hyphenation: pro?fit

Noun

pròf?t m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. profit

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English profit.

Noun

profit

1. profit
2. interest