riba

See also: RIBA

English

Etymology

Arabic رِبَا‎ (ribā)

Noun

riba (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

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

Noun

riba f (plural ribes)

  1. coast

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رِبًا‎ (riban).

Noun

r̃ìba f (possessed form r̃ìbar̃)

  1. bank interest, usury

Noun

r̃ībā̀ f (possessed form r̃ībàr̃)

  1. profit
  2. benefit, gain, advantage

Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رِبًا‎ (riban).

Noun

riba f

  1. interest (the price of credit)


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Lithuanian

Pronunciation
  • (ribà) IPA(key): [rʲɪˈbɐ]
  • (rìba) IPA(key): [ˈrʲɪbɐ]

Noun

ribà f (plural rìbos) stress pattern 4 [1]

  1. boundary[2] (dividing line or location between two areas)
    šaliẽs ribà - frontier, border
  2. limit[2]

Declension
declension of riba
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) ribà rìbos
genitive (kilmininkas) ribõs ribų̃
dative (naudininkas) rìbai ribóms
accusative (galininkas) rìbą ribàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) ribà ribomìs
locative (vietininkas) ribojè ribosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) rìba rìbos

Synonyms

Derived terms

(Adjectives)

See also

References
  1. “riba” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  2. “riba” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈriβo]

Noun

riba f (plural ribas)

  1. shore, bank
  • 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

rȉba f (Cyrillic spelling ри̏ба)

  1. fish (animal)
  2. (slang) girl, chick
    • 2007 November 12, Zvonimir Milčec, “Puca kino na staroj streljani u Tuškancu”, in Jutarnji list‎:
      Streljanu današnje generacije znaju samo kao omiljeno kino Tuškanac, gdje smo rado vodili svoje trebe, mačke, ribe, kite i komade i odgledali velik dio svog repertoara vesterna i krimića, gdje se naveliko pucalo.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  3. (slang) (ribica, diminutive) vagina

Declension
Declension of riba
singular plural
nominative rȉba ribe
genitive ribe rȋbā
dative ribi ribama
accusative ribu ribe
vocative ribo ribe
locative ribi ribama
instrumental ribom ribama

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ryba.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrìːba/
  • Tonal orthography: ríba

Noun

ríba f (genitive ríbe, nominative plural ríbe)

  1. fish

Declension
Declension of ríba (feminine, a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative ríba ríbi ríbe
accusative ríbo ríbi ríbe
genitive ríbe ríb ríb
dative ríbi ríbama ríbam
locative ríbi ríbah ríbah
instrumental ríbo ríbama ríbami

Swahili

Noun

riba (n class, plural riba)

  1. interest
  2. greed, avarice; usury
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