rim
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪm/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology 1
From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).
Noun
rim (plural rims)
- An edge around something, especially when circular.
- (automotive, cycling) wheelrim
Translations
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See also
- (wheel rim): mag wheel, alloy wheel
Verb
rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed) (transitive)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English rēoma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-Germanic *reumô (“belt, thong”), from Proto-Indo-European *rew- (“to tear, dig, gather”). Cognate with Dutch riem (“a thong”), German Riemen (“a thong, band”), Swedish rem (“a thong, strap”).
Noun
rim (plural rims)
- (Britain dialectal) A membrane.
- (Britain dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
- 1599, Shakespeare, “Act IV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand”, in King Henry V:
- Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.
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Etymology 3
From a variation of ream.
Verb
rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)
- (slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act.
- 2008, Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me), page 216
- When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.
- 2008, Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me), page 216
Translations
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Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą.
Inflection
Further reading
rim on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 3
See rime.
Northern Kurdish
Alternative forms
- rimb
Etymology
From Arabic رُمْح (rumḥ).[1] For rimb, compare the probably related Old Armenian ռումբ (ṙumb).
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “rim”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 518a
Norwegian Bokmål
Derived terms
Noun
rim m (definite singular rimen, uncountable)
rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)
- rime (frost)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riːm/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rím, from Old French rime.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“number, count, series”), from Proto-Indo-European *re(i)- (“to reason, count”). Akin to Old Frisian rīm, Old Saxon -rīm, Old High German rīm, Icelandic rím.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riːm/
Noun
rīm n (nominative plural rīm)
Declension
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | rīm | rīm |
accusative | rīm | rīm |
genitive | rīmes | rīma |
dative | rīme | rīmum |
Derived terms
- ġerīm n. — A number, computation, measurement, calendar, diary
- rīman — to count, number; tell, enumerate, relate; account, esteem as
- rīmāþ m. — oath by a number of persons
- rīmbōc — calendar
- rīmcræft m. — arithmetic; calendar
- rīmcræftiġ — skilled in reckoning
- rīmcræftiġa m. — one skilful at figures
- rīmġetæl, rīmgetel n. — number
- rīmre m. — reckoner, calculator
- rīmtalu f. number
- rīmtæl n. — number
- winterrīm
- cnēorīm
- dōgorrīm
- dæġrīm
- enderīm
- fæþmrīm
- ġēarrīm
- ġetælrīm
- manerīm
- nihtrīm
- sċillingrīm
- unrīm
Portuguese
Etymology
Via Old Portuguese rin, from Latin rēn, from Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”).
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą.
Volapük
Declension
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ríːm] (example of pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -íːm
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą.
Related terms
Synonyms
- (story, saga) sögu