# ravin
## English
### Alternative forms

* raven, ravine

### Etymology

From Middle English ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: răvʹən, IPA: /ˈɹævən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ævən

### Verb

ravin (third-person singular simple present ravins, present participle ravining, simple past and past participle ravined)
* (obsolete) To dine or feast upon plunder or goods seized by violence.
** 1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 124:Now, if ye hear the bruit of death or wounds, Give not yourselves o'ermuch to shriek and scream, For Ares ravins upon human flesh.

#### Derived terms

* ravin down

### Noun

ravin (uncountable)
* (obsolete) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

### Adjective

ravin (comparative more ravin, superlative most ravin)
* (obsolete) Ravenous.
** c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 117:Better 'twere I met the ravin lion when he roared With sharp constraint of hunger;

### Further reading

* “ravin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* -navir, Arvin, Narvi, Vanir, invar

## French
### Etymology

From ravine or raviner, from Old French ravine, from Latin rapīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁa.vɛ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ravin m (plural ravins)
* ravine

#### Derived terms

* qui fait le malin tombe dans le ravin

#### Related terms

* ravine
* ravinement
* raviner

### Further reading

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

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French ravin.

### Noun

ravin
* ravine

### References

* Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

## Nalik
### Noun

ravin (singular a ravin, plural a fu ravin)
* woman

### Further reading

* Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
* Craig Alan Volker, The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (1998), page 90

## Swedish
### Etymology

From French ravine, from Latin rapīna.

### Noun

ravin c
* a ravine
    en djup ravin med tvärbranta väggara deep ravine with sheer walls

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | ravin | ravins |
| singular | definite | ravinen | ravinens |
| plural | indefinite | raviner | raviners |
| plural | definite | ravinerna | ravinernas |

### References

* ravin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* ravin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* ravin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)