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English

Noun

zebus

1. plural of zebu

English

Etymology

From French rébus (“rebus (puzzle); ambiguity; word used in an oblique sense; unintelligible remark”), or directly from its probable etymon Latin r?bus, the ablative plural of r?s (“object, stuff, thing; issue, matter, subject, topic”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh?ís (“goods; wealth”). The connection between the English word and its Latin etymon is unclear; the following possibilities have been suggested, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary are problematic:

• According to the French scholar Gilles Ménage (1613–1692) in Les origines de la langue françoise (The Origins of the French Language, 1650), it is taken from the phrase de rebus quae geruntur (“concerning the things that are taking place”) which was used in 16th-century Picardy as the name for satirical writings on contemporary subjects containing picture-riddles that were composed for an annual carnival. However, the term rebus de Picardie is first attested later than the word rébus, and so could simply refer to rebuses popular in Picardy at the time.
• Alternatively, it could be from the phrase n?n verb?s sed r?bus meaning “not by words but by things”, but this “encounters difficulties in the chronology of the senses in French”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?'b?s, IPA^(key): /??i?b?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ib?s/
• Rhymes: -i?b?s
• Hyphenation: re?bus

Noun

rebus (plural rebuses or rebusses or (hypercorrect) rebi)

1. An arrangement of pictures, symbols, and/or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.

   Synonyms: rebus puzzle, dingbat

2. (specifically, heraldry) An arrangement of pictures on a coat of arms which suggests the name of the person to whom it belongs.

Derived terms

• rebus principle

Translations

Verb

rebus (third-person singular simple present rebuses or rebusses, present participle rebusing or rebussing, simple past and past participle rebused or rebussed) (transitive, obsolete, rare)

1. To represent (a phrase or word) as a rebus.
2. To apply a rebus to (something).

References

Further reading

• rebus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Burse, Reubs, Suber, Ubers, buers, bures, burse, erubs, resub, rubes, suber, urbes

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

French rébus, from Latin rebus.

Noun

rebus

1. rebus.

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Noun

rebus c (singular definite rebussen, plural indefinite rebusser)

1. rebus (puzzle)

Declension

Estonian

Noun

rebus

1. inessive singular of rebu

French

Verb

rebus

1. first-person singular past historic of reboire
2. second-person singular past historic of reboire

Participle

rebus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of reboire

Anagrams

• beurs

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

rebus (plural rebus-rebus)

1. boiled

Italian

Noun

rebus m (invariable)

1. rebus
2. enigma
3. puzzle
4. conundrum

Related terms

• rebussistico

Latin

Noun

r?bus

1. dative plural of r?s
2. ablative plural of r?s

References

• rebus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Malay

Adjective

rebus (Jawi spelling ?????, plural rebus-rebus)

1. boiled (food)

Verb

rebus

1. to boil (food)

Further reading

• “rebus” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Polish

Etymology

From French rébus, from Latin rebus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.bus/

Noun

rebus m inan

1. rebus

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) rebusowy

Further reading

• rebus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French rébus.

Noun

rebus n (plural rebusuri)

1. rebus, crossword

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??bus/
• Hyphenation: re?bus

Noun

rébus m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. rebus

Declension

Swedish

Noun

rebus c

1. a rebus; a kind of word puzzle

Declension

Synonyms

• bildgåta

Related terms

• rebuslösning

References

• Rebus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)