# rubi
## English
### Noun

rubi
* Alternative form of ruby (“pronunciation guide for Chinese or Japanese characters”)
** 2010, Alisa Freedman, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, page 170:"Shinjuku Sketch" demonstrates another of Ryutanji's trademark techniques, which was established in The Age of Wandering: writing English loan words as kanji Chinese character compounds cribbed with rubi to convey a visual sense of international modernism and global culture.
** 2012, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Judy Wakabayashi, Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context, page 158:Bespoke combinations of kanji can also be created, because the intended phonetic and semantic readings can be supplied by the rubi glosses.

### Anagrams

* URBI

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rubí.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ru‧bi
* IPA: /ɾuˈbi/ [ɾ̪ʊˈbi]

### Noun

rubí
* ruby

## Galician
### Verb

rubi
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of rubir:
** first-person singular preterite indicative
** second-person plural imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈru.bi/
* Rhymes: -ubi
* Hyphenation: rù‧bi

### Verb

rubi
* inflection of rubare:
** second-person singular present indicative
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* urbi

## Japanese
### Romanization

rubi
* Rōmaji transcription of ルビ

## Karelian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rupi.

### Noun

rubi (genitive ruven, partitive rubie)
* scab
* (pathology) pox
* vaccination

### References

* Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “rupi”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

## Latin
### Noun

rubī
* inflection of rubus:
** nominative/vocative plural
** genitive singular

## Livvi
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rupi.

### Noun

rubi (genitive ruven, partitive rubii)
* scab
* (pathology) pox
* vaccination

### References

* Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “rupi”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

## Old Irish
### Verb

·rubi
* Alternative form of ·rubai

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* rubí (1931-prescribed spelling)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rubi, from Catalan robí (“ruby”), from Medieval Latin rubīnus, from Latin rubeus (“red”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁuˈbi/ [huˈbi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁuˈbi/ [huˈbi]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁuˈbi/ [χuˈbi]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁuˈbi/ [ʁuˈβi]
* Rhymes: -i
* Hyphenation: ru‧bi

### Noun

rubi m (plural rubis)
* ruby (a deep red corundum gemstone)
* ruby (a deep red colour)

### Adjective

rubi (invariable)
* ruby (deep red in colour)

#### Related terms

* rúbeo
* ruivo

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rubí (“ruby”), from Catalan robí, from Old French rubin, from Medieval Latin rubīnus.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ɾuˈbi/ [ɾʊˈbi]
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: ru‧bi

### Noun

rubí (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜒ)
* ruby (precious stone)
* ruby (color/colour)

#### Related terms

* rubya
* rubyo

### Adjective

rubí (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜒ)
* ruby (color/colour)

### Further reading

* “rubi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rupi, borrowed from Germanic. Cognates include Finnish rupi.

### Noun

rubi
* scab
* scar
* roughness

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “короста, шероховатость, шрам”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika