different between rubi vs ruby

English

Noun

rubi

1. Alternative form of ruby (“pronunciation guide for Chinese or Japanese characters”)
   • 2010, Alisa Freedman, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road (page 170)

     "Shinjuku Sketch" demonstrates another of Ryutanji's trademark techniques, which was established in The Age of Wandering: writing English loan words as kanji Chinese character compounds cribbed with rubi to convey a visual sense of international modernism and global culture.

   • 2012, Nana Sato-Rossberg, ?Judy Wakabayashi, Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context (page 158)

     Bespoke combinations of kanji can also be created, because the intended phonetic and semantic readings can be supplied by the rubi glosses.

Anagrams

• URBI

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ubi

Verb

rubi

1. second-person singular present indicative of rubare
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of rubare
3. second-person singular present subjunctive of rubare
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of rubare
5. third-person singular imperative of rubare

Latin

Noun

rub?

1. nominative plural of rubus
2. genitive singular of rubus
3. vocative plural of rubus

Old Irish

Verb

·rubi

1. Alternative form of ·rubai

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan robí (“ruby”), from Medieval Latin rub?nus, from Latin rubeus (“red”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /hu.?bi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?u.?bi/

Noun

rubi m (plural rubis)

1. ruby (a deep red corundum gemstone)
2. ruby (a deep red colour)

Adjective

rubi (invariable, comparable)

1. ruby (deep red in colour)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rubí (“ruby”).

Noun

rubi

1. ruby

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish rupi.

Noun

rubi

1. scab
2. scar
3. roughness

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???????, ?????????????, ????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??u?bi]
• Rhymes: -u?bi

Etymology 1

From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Latin rubeus (“red”).

Noun

ruby (countable and uncountable, plural rubies)

1. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
2. (obsolete) A red spinel.
3. A deep red colour.

4. (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
5. (uncountable, printing, Britain, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

   Synonym: (US) agate

6. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
7. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

ruby (comparative more ruby, superlative most ruby)

1. Of a deep red colour.

Translations

Verb

ruby (third-person singular simple present rubies, present participle rubying, simple past and past participle rubied)

1. (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.

   • With sanguine drops the walls are rubied

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• carbuncle
• corundum
• spinel
• Ruby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Ruby”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “ruby”, in Mindat.org?^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Etymology 2

From the British 5.5-point font Ruby, used for annotations in printed documents.

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

2. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.

   Synonym: rubi

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• -bury, Bury, bury

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rub?]

Noun

ruby

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of rub

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French rubi, itself borrowed from Latin rubeus.

Alternative forms

• rebe, ribe, rube, rubee, rubie, rybe, ryby

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?riu?bi?/, /?riu?be?/

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

1. A ruby (red precious stone)
2. (figuratively) A precious individual.

Descendants

• English: ruby

References

• “rub?(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

ruby

1. Alternative form of robben

Silesian

Alternative forms

• hruby

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *grub?.

Adjective

ruby

1. fat, thick