ris

Cognate with Italian riccio, making it a doublet of rínxol.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈris]

ris m (plural risos)

1. curl, ringlet, lock

   Synonyms: rull, rínxol

2. loop

   Synonym: bucle

3. (nautical) reef (rolled portion of sail)

• arrissar
• rissar

• “ris” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

ris f (singulative risen)

1. rice

• IPA^(key): /ʁiːˀs/, [ʁiˀs]

From late Old Norse rís, from Middle Low German rīs, from Old French ris, from Italian riso, from Latin oryza, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza).

ris c (singular definite risen, plural indefinite ris)

1. rice

From Old Norse hrís.

ris n (singular definite riset, plural indefinite ris)

1. twig
2. brushwood
3. negative criticism

• IPA^(key): /ʁi/
• Homophones: ri, rie, rient, ries, rit, riz

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French ris (“reef”) for earlier *rifs (nom. sg. and acc. pl.), probably borrowed from Old Norse rif (“reef”). See English reef for more.

ris m (plural ris)

1. (nautical) reef (portion of a sail)

Inherited from Middle French ris, of unknown origin.^[1] Gilles Ménage considered it a likely corruption of ridez m pl, modern ridés (“wrinkled”).^[2]

ris m (plural ris)

1. (chiefly in the plural) sweetbread (of a lamb or calf)

Inherited from Latin rīsus (“laughter”).

ris m (plural ris)

2. (archaic) laughter, laugh

   Synonym: rire

3. (literary, in the plural) pleasures

See the lemma.

ris

1. inflection of rire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. first/second-person singular past historic

• “ris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

ris

1. second-person singular present indicative of rir

From Proto-Germanic *risą, a zero-grade formation from *rīsaną (“to rise”).

• IPA^(key): /rɪːs/
• Rhymes: -ɪːs

ris n (genitive singular riss, nominative plural ris)

1. rising (the process of something rising)
2. attic, part of a house directly under the (slanting) roof

   Synonyms: háaloft, loft, þakhæð, rishæð, hanabjálki

3. climax (of a story)

ris (uncountable)

1. rice

From Old Irish ris (“a piece of news, tidings, story, tale”).

ris f (genitive singular rise, nominative plural rise)

1. (literary) report, tidings
2. (literary) story, tale

From Old Irish ris (“bare, exposed, uncovered”, adjective).

ris

1. bare, uncovered, exposed

ris (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

1. Alternative form of leis

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ris”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ris”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 ris”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rysь.

• IPA^(key): /ˈris/
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: ris

ris m animal

1. lynx (felid of the genus Lynx)

   Synonym: luks

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “ryś”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]

From Old French ris for earlier *rifs (plural), probably borrowed from Old Norse rif (“reef”), from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”).

ris m (plural ris)

1. (Jersey, nautical) reef

   Synonym: ris d'vaile

• rîsi (“to reef”)

ris

1. first-person singular preterite of rithe

• IPA^(key): /ɾiːs/

ris m (definite singular risen)

1. rice

• risgrøt
• rismark

ris n (definite singular riset, indefinite plural ris, definite plural risa or risene)

1. a twig; a bundle of twigs used as a punishing device

• bjerkeris

ris m (definite singular risen)

1. a spanking given to someone through the use of a birch or the palm of one’s hand

ris

1. imperative of rise

• “ris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /riːs/

From Old Norse rís, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza). Akin to English rice.

ris m (definite singular risen)

1. rice

• rismark

From Old Norse hrís.

ris n (definite singular riset, indefinite plural ris, definite plural risa)

1. a bundle of sticks or twigs
2. a spanking

ris

1. present tense of risa
2. imperative of risa

• “ris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• arrís (Gascony)

• Audio:

  (file)

ris m (plural ris)

1. (cooking, Gascony) rice

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 119.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -is, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃ
• Hyphenation: ris

ris

1. second-person singular present indicative of rir

From Old Irish fris.

• IPA^(key): [ɾʲiʃ]
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): [ðiʃ]

ris

1. Alternative form of ri

   cho sgìth ris a' chù ― as tired as a dog; dog-tired

   Tha i ga blàthachadh fhèin ris an teine. ― She's warming herself up at the fire.

• This form is used before the definite article.

ris (emphatic ris-san)

1. third-person singular masculine of ri: to him, to it, with him, with it

   A bheil Alasdair coltach ris? ― Is Alasdair similar to him?

   Tha mi a' dèanamh fiughair ris. ― I'm looking forward to it.

Personal inflection of ri
Number	Person	Simple	Emphatic
Singular	1st	rium	riumsa
	2nd	riut	riutsa
	3rd m	ris	ris-san
	3rd f	rithe	rithese
Plural	1st	rinn	rinne
	2nd	ribh	ribhse
	3rd	riutha	riuthasan

• rithe

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rysь.

• IPA^(key): /rîs/

rȉs m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏с)

1. lynx

• “ris”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• “ris”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From Proto-Slavic *rysь.

• IPA^(key): /ríːs/

rȋs m anim

1. lynx

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	rís
gen. sing.	rísa
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	rís	rísa	rísi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	rísa	rísov	rísov
dative (dajȃlnik)	rísu	rísoma	rísom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	rísa	rísa	ríse
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	rísu	rísih	rísih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	rísom	rísoma	rísi

• “ris”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “ris”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /riːs/

• Audio (Gotland); “ett ris”:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːs

From Old Norse hrís.

ris n

1. (chiefly in compounds, also collectively as vegetation) small shrubs, such as blueberry and lingonberry; bush, scrub, undergrowth, brushwood

   blåbärsris

   blueberry bush / scrub

   lingonris

   lingonberry bush / scrub

   en stubbe i lingonriset

   a stump in the lingonberry patch [a stump in the lingonberry scrub / undergrowth]

3. (dry) severed twigs (for example in a bundle or as for a broom), brushwood

   De lade sina liggunderlag på björkriset.

   They put their hiking mattresses on the birch twigs.

4. a spanking

   Han skall få smaka riset för det här.

   He'll get birched ("taste the twigs") for this.

5. negative criticism

   Antonym: ros

   Föreställningen fick mycket ris.

   The performance received a lot of negative criticism.

   ris och ros

   praise and criticism [idiomatic – also the name of a readers' section in some newspapers for criticizing or commending]

• binda ris för egen rygg
• björkris
• påskris
• rishög

• risig

• sly
• snår

From Old Norse rís, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza). Akin to English rice.

ris n

1. rice (plant)
3. rice (grains from the rice plant)

   koka ris

   cook [boil] rice

• basmatiris
• jasminris
• risgryn

Ultimately from Arabic رِزْمَة (rizma, “package”).

ris n

1. a ream: 500 sheets (of paper)

• ris in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ris in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• ris in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• IPA^(key): /ʈi˩/

ris

1. to carry on the back, to bear

ris (classifier: lub)

1. trousers, pants

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 277-8.