# rubin
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹuːbɪn/

### Noun

rubin (plural rubins)
* Alternative form of rubine (“(obsolete) a ruby”).
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:And, when she spake, Sweete wordes, like dropping honny, she did shed; And twixt the perles and rubins softly brake
** 1884, Richard Francis Burton, transl., Camoens - The Lyricks, Ode XI (Naquelle tempo brando):The rubins red and bright

### References

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

### Anagrams

* Bruin, Bruni, Burin, bruin, burin

## Crimean Tatar
### Conjunction

rubin
* or
    Synonyms: ya, yoqsa, yahut, ya da, yahutta

### References

* “rubin”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Danish
### Noun

rubin c (singular definite rubinen, plural indefinite rubiner)
* ruby (gemstone)

#### Declension
### References

* “rubin” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “rubin” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Friulian
### Noun

rubin m (plural rubins)
* ruby

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* rubint (folksy)

### Etymology

From German Rubin, from Medieval Latin rubinus (“ruby”), from Latin ruber (“red”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrubin]
* Hyphenation: ru‧bin
* Rhymes: -in

### Noun

rubin (plural rubinok)
* ruby (gemstone)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* rubin in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

rubin m (definite singular rubinen, indefinite plural rubiner, definite plural rubinene)
* ruby

### References

* “rubin” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin rubinus, from rubeus.

### Noun

rubin m (definite singular rubinen, indefinite plural rubinar, definite plural rubinane)
* ruby

### References

* “rubin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* rubi

### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin rubinus (“ruby”), from Latin rubeus (“red”).

### Noun

rubin oblique singular, m (oblique plural rubins, nominative singular rubins, nominative plural rubin)
* ruby (gemstone)

#### Descendants

* French: rubis
* → Middle English: ruby, rebe, ribe, rube, rubee, rubie, rybe, ryby
** English: ruby
* Norman: rubis

#### See also

* esmeraude

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ryˈbiŋ/

### Noun

rubin m
* ruby

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈru.bin/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ubin
* Syllabification: ru‧bin

### Noun

rubin m inan (diminutive rubinek)
* ruby (gemstone)

#### Derived terms

* rubinowy

### Further reading

* rubin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* rubin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian rubino.

### Noun

rubin n (plural rubine)
* ruby

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Derived from Medieval Latin rubīnus. First attested in the 16th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rǔbiːn/
* Hyphenation: ru‧bin

### Noun

rùbīn m (Cyrillic spelling ру̀бӣн)
* ruby (gemstone)

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2016–2021) “rubin”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 309

### Further reading

* “rubin”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iːn

### Noun

rubin c
* ruby (gemstone)