# rope
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: rōp, IPA: /ɹəʊp/
* (US) enPR: rōp, IPA: /ɹoʊp/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).
Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).

#### Alternative forms

* roap, roape (all obsolete)

#### Noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)
* (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
    Synonyms: twine, line, cord; see also Thesaurus:string
    Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
* (countable) An individual length of such material.
    The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
* A cohesive strand of something.
    The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
** 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River‎, →ISBN, page 138:Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
** (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen released during ejaculation.
* (dated) A continuous stream.
** 1852, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page 38:The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern.
* (baseball) A hard line drive.
    He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
* (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
* (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
    Synonym: cord
* (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
* (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
    Synonyms: rajju, infinitude
** 2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh, editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism‎, →ISBN, page 7522:The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]
* (jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length.
* (nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
* (archaic) A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
* (slang) Rohypnol.
* (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
    shooting ropes
* (with "the") Death by hanging.
    The murderer was sentenced to the rope.

##### Derived terms

* battle rope
* bell rope
* boatrope
* bolt rope
* bolt-rope
* breastrope
* bull rope
* bungee rope
* bungy rope
* buoy rope
* bushrope
* cable-laid rope
* catch rope
* catch-rope
* Chinese jump rope
* Chinese ropes
* coyote's rope
* crack-rope
* dance on a rope
* day of the rope
* dead man's rope
* dead-rope
* devil's rope
* dog rope
* drag rope
* drag-rope
* fast rope
* flat rope
* footrope
* frozen rope
* gift rope
* give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
* give one enough rope
* give someone enough rope
* glass-rope
* goat rope
* goat-rope
* guest rope
* guide rope
* guy rope
* handrope
* hawser-laid rope
* headrope
* hide-rope
* hobble rope
* hobblerope
* hobble-rope
* Indian rope trick
* jump rope
* know the ropes
* laid rope
* learn the ropes
* leg rope
* Manila rope
* manrope
* mastrope
* money for old rope
* nope rope
* on the high rope
* on the high ropes
* on the ropes
* outrope
* picket rope
* piss up a rope
* prayer rope
* push rope
* raft-rope
* ridgerope
* ridge rope
* rope and choke
* rope-band
* ropeband
* rope bridge
* rope bunny
* rope burn
* rope clamp
* rope-dancer
* rope dancer
* rope-dancing
* ropedancing
* rope dart
* rope drilling
* rope-end
* ropefish
* ropefuel
* ropefull
* ropehead
* ropeheaded
* rope-house
* rope kiss
* rope ladder
* ropeless
* rope-like
* ropelike
* rope line
* ropeline
* ropeloft
* rope machine
* ropemaker
* rope-maker
* ropemaking
* ropeman
* ropemanship
* ropemate
* ropemaxx
* Rope Monday
* rope of sand
* rope out
* rope-over
* rope porter
* rope pulling
* rope pump
* rope railway
* rope-ripe
* rope runner
* ropery
* ropes course
* rope's end
* rope-sick
* ropesman
* rope stitch
* rope-tide
* rope tornado
* rope tow
* rope trick
* rope up
* ropewalker
* ropewalking
* ropewalk, rope-walk
* rope wall
* ropeway
* rope-way
* rope winch
* ropeworker
* ropework, rope-work
* rope-worthy
* rope-yard
* rope yarn
* ropey, ropy
* ropish
* shoot a rope
* show one the ropes
* skipping rope
* skip rope
* stirrup
* stretch rope
* teach one the ropes
* the end of one's rope
* tightrope
* tight rope
* tight-rope
* top rope
* top-rope
* tow rope
* towrope
* twopenny rope
* unrope
* wainrope
* wire rope
* yard rope
* yard-rope
* you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope

##### Descendants

* → Irish: rópa
* Tok Pisin: rop

##### Translations

Acehnese: taloe
Afrikaans: tou
Albanian: litar (sq), rade, lak (sq) m
Amharic: ገመድ (gämäd)
Arabic: حَبْل m (ḥabl)
Chadian Arabic: حبل m (habil)
Egyptian Arabic: حبل m (ḥabl)
Aragonese: cuerda f
Armenian: պարան (hy) (paran), թոկ (hy) (tʻok), ճոպան (hy) (čopan)
Aromanian: fune, coardã f
Assamese: জৰী (zori), ৰছী (rosi), ডোৰ (dür)
Asturian: cuerda (ast) f, soga f
Azerbaijani: kəndir (az)
Bashkir: арҡан (arqan)
Basque: soka (eu)
Belarusian: вяро́ўка (be) f (vjaróŭka), шво́рка f (švórka)
Bengali: দড়ি (bn) (doṛi), রশি (bn) (rośi)
Breton: kordenn (br) f
Brunei Malay: tali, kalat
Bulgarian: въже́ (bg) n (vǎžé)
Burmese: ကြိုး (my) (krui:), လွန် (my) (lwan)
Carpathian Rusyn: шпарґа f (šparga)
Catalan: corda (ca) f
Cebuano: lubid
Central Dusun: tali
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Cham:
Eastern Cham: please add this translation if you can
Western Cham: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: ijcha, mespijcha
Chechen: тӏийриг (tʼiı̇rig)
Cherokee: ᏍᏕᏱᏛ (sdeyidv)
Chickasaw: ishtalakchi', shtalakchi'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 繩 / 绳 (sing$^4$)
Dungan: шынзы (šɨnzɨ)
Hokkien: 索仔 (zh-min-nan) (soh-á)
Mandarin: 繩子 / 绳子 (zh) (shéngzi), 繩索 / 绳索 (zh) (shéngsuǒ)
Coptic: ⲛⲟϩ (noh)
Crimean Tatar: arqan
Czech: lano (cs) n
Danish: tov (da) n, reb (da) n
Dupaningan Agta: gakad
Dutch: touw (nl) n
Egyptian: (nwḥ)
Erzya: пикс (piks)
Esperanto: ŝnuro (eo)
Estonian: köis
Faroese: reip (fo) n, tog n
Fataluku: taru
Finnish: köysi (fi)
French: corde (fr) f
Friulian: cuarde f
Galician: corda (gl) f, soga (gl) f, estrinque m
Georgian: თოკი (toḳi), საბელი (ka) (sabeli), ბაგირი (bagiri), ბაწარი (ka) (bac̣ari)
German: Seil (de) n, Tau (de) n, Schnur (de) f
Greek: σχοινί (el) n (schoiní)
Ancient: σχοινίον n (skhoiníon), σειρά f (seirá)
Gujarati: દોરડું n (dorḍũ)
Hebrew: חֶבֶל (he) m (khével)
Higaonon: lubid
Hindi: डोरी (hi) f (ḍorī), रस्सी (hi) f (rassī)
Hungarian: kötél (hu)
Icelandic: reipi (is) n, tog n
Ido: kordo (io)
Indonesian: tali (id)
Ingrian: köys
Interlingua: corda, fun
Iranun: tali
Irish: téad f, teaghrán m
Istriot: curda f
Italian: corda (it) f, cavo (it) m, fune (it) f, rudente m, resta (it) f
Japanese: ロープ (ja) (rōpu), 綱 (ja) (つな, tsuna), 縄 (ja) (なわ, nawa)
Javanese: ꦠꦭꦶ (jv) (tali)
Kabuverdianu: bulina
Kannada: ಹಗ್ಗ (kn) (hagga)
Kashubian: lina
Kazakh: арқан (arqan), жіп (jıp)
Khmer: ខ្សែ (km) (khsae), ពួរ (km) (puə)
Kikuyu: mũkanda
Korean: 밧줄 (ko) (batjul), 로프 (ropeu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ben (ku), benik (ku)
Kyrgyz: аркан (ky) (arkan), жип (ky) (jip)
Lao: ເຊືອກ (sư̄ak)
Latgalian: vierve f
Latin: fūnis m, rudēns m, restis f
Latvian: aukla (lv) f, virve (lv) f
Lezgi: еб (eb)
Lithuanian: virvė (lt) f
Luhya: kumukoye
Luxembourgish: Seel n
Macedonian: јаже n (jaže)
Maguindanao: tali
Makasae: tali
Malay: tali (ms)
Maltese: ħabel m
Manchu: ᡶᡠᡨᠠ (futa)
Maori: taura, hutihuti, taukaea, torokaha
Maranao: lobid, tali
Marathi: दोरी f (dorī)
Mbyá Guaraní: xã
Middle English: corde, rop
Mirandese: cuorda f
Moksha: пикс (piks)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: олс (mn) (ols)
Nanai: соптанги (soptaŋi)
Navajo: tłʼóół
Nepali: डोरी (ḍorī)
Ngazidja Comorian: ngwe, hamba
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tau (no) n, rep (no) n, reip n, (ropes) tauverk n
Nynorsk: tau n, tog n, reip n, (ropes) tauverk n
Occitan: còrda (oc) f
Odia: ଦଉଡି (dauḍi)
Ojibwe: biiminakwaan
Okinawan: 綱 (ちな, china)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: ѫже n (ǫže)
Old English: sāl m, sīma m
Old Javanese: tali
Oromo: funyoo
Osage: wéðį
Ossetian: бӕндӕн (bændæn), рӕтӕн (rætæn)
Ottoman Turkish: ایپ (ip), خلاط (halat), طنب (tunub), ریسمان (risman); اورغان (urgan) (a stout or large rope)
Pannonian Rusyn: штранґ m (štrang), паньваш m (panʹvaš)
Papiamentu: kabuya, liña
Pashto: پړی (ps) m (pəṛay)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: طَناب (tanâb), رَسَن (rasan)
Plautdietsch: Strank m
Polish: lina (pl) f, sznur (pl) m, powróz (pl) m (archaic)
Portuguese: corda (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਰੱਸਾ f (rassā)
Quechua: watu, waska
Rakhine: please add this translation if you can
Rohingya: rosí
Romanian: frânghie (ro) f, coardă (ro), funie (ro)
Romansch: suga f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan), suja f (Sutsilvan), soua f (Surmiran), sua f (Puter, Vallader), sughet m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
Russian: верёвка (ru) f (verjóvka), трос (ru) m (tros) (thick), кана́т (ru) m (kanát) (cable), бечёвка (ru) f (bečóvka)
Sanskrit: रज्जु (sa) f (rajju)
Sardinian: codra f, corda f, colda f, fune f, funi f
Saterland Frisian: Roop
Scottish Gaelic: ròp m, ròpa m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̏же n
Roman: ȕže (sh) n
Sidamo: siiwo
Sinhalese: කඹය (kaᵐbaya)
Slovak: lano n
Slovene: vrv (sl) f
Somali: seeto, xadhig
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: powrjoz m
Spanish: cuerda (es) f, soga (es) f, maroma (es) f, toa (es) f, hico m
Sranan Tongo: titei
Sundanese: tali (su)
Swahili: kamba (sw)
Swedish: rep (sv) n
Tagalog: tali (tl)
Tajik: арғамчин (tg) (arġamčin), таноб (tanob)
Talysh:
Asalemi: لافند (lâfənd), لافوند (lâfund)
Tamil: கயிறு (ta) (kayiṟu)
Tarifit: asɣun m
Tatar: аркан (tt) (arkan)
Tausug: lubid
Telugu: తాడు (te) (tāḍu), మోకు (te) (mōku)
Tetum: tali
Thai: เชือก (th) (chʉ̂ʉak)
Tibetan: ཐག་པ (thag pa)
Tigrinya: ገመድ (gämäd)
Turkish: halat (tr)
Turkmen: tanap, ýüp
Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎁𐎍 (ḥbl)
Ukrainian: вірьо́вка f (virʹóvka), моту́зка f (motúzka), шво́рка f (švórka), верве́чка (uk) f (vervéčka)
Urdu: رَسّی f (rassī), ڈوری f (ḍorī), رَسَن f (rasan)
Uyghur: ئارقان (arqan), ئارغامچا (arghamcha)
Uzbek: arqon (uz), arg'amchi (uz)
Vietnamese: dây (vi)
Volapük: jain (vo)
Walloon: coide (wa) f
Welsh: rhaff (cy) f, rhaffau (cy) f pl
White Hmong: hlua
Yakut: быа (bıa)
Yiddish: שטריק m or f (shtrik)
Yup'ik: pilu'uvkaaq
Zande: gire
Zealandic: touwe f
Zhuang: cag
Zulu: intambo (zu) class 9/10 :
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##### Further reading

* Rope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Rope (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.

#### Verb

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)
* (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
    The robber roped the victims.
* (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
    The cowboy roped the calf.
* (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
** 1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains, page 153:We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.
* (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
* (transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
** 1882, Edwin Sharpe Grew, ‎Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, ‎Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science (volume 1, page 132)
    Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.
* (Internet slang, originally incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
** 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153:
    In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]
** 2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36:
    ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”
** 2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rope.
    My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

##### Synonyms

* (tie with rope): tie, bind, secure
* (throw a rope around): lasso
* (kill oneself): ropemaxx; see also Thesaurus:commit suicide

##### Derived terms

* ropable, ropeable
* rope-a-dope
* roped
* rope in, rope into
* rope off
* roper
* rope together

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”).
The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.

#### Alternative forms

* rop, rap (dialectal)

#### Noun

rope (plural ropes)
* (in the plural) The small intestines.
    the ropes of birds

### Anagrams

* Pero, oper, pore, reop, repo

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrope/, [ˈro̞pe̞]
* Rhymes: -ope
* Hyphenation: ro‧pe

### Noun

rope (slang)
* (gaming) Clipping of roolipeli (“RPG, role-playing game”).

#### Declension

Possessive forms of rope (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ropeni
ropeni
accusative
nom.
ropeni
ropeni
gen.
ropeni
genitive
ropeni
ropejeni
partitive
ropeani
ropejani
inessive
ropessani
ropeissani
elative
ropestani
ropeistani
illative
ropeeni
ropeihini
adessive
ropellani
ropeillani
ablative
ropeltani
ropeiltani
allative
ropelleni
ropeilleni
essive
ropenani
ropeinani
translative
ropekseni
ropeikseni
abessive
ropettani
ropeittani
instructive
comitative
—ropeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ropesi
ropesi
accusative
nom.
ropesi
ropesi
gen.
ropesi
genitive
ropesi
ropejesi
partitive
ropeasi
ropejasi
inessive
ropessasi
ropeissasi
elative
ropestasi
ropeistasi
illative
ropeesi
ropeihisi
adessive
ropellasi
ropeillasi
ablative
ropeltasi
ropeiltasi
allative
ropellesi
ropeillesi
essive
ropenasi
ropeinasi
translative
ropeksesi
ropeiksesi
abessive
ropettasi
ropeittasi
instructive
comitative
—ropeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ropemme
ropemme
accusative
nom.
ropemme
ropemme
gen.
ropemme
genitive
ropemme
ropejemme
partitive
ropeamme
ropejamme
inessive
ropessamme
ropeissamme
elative
ropestamme
ropeistamme
illative
ropeemme
ropeihimme
adessive
ropellamme
ropeillamme
ablative
ropeltamme
ropeiltamme
allative
ropellemme
ropeillemme
essive
ropenamme
ropeinamme
translative
ropeksemme
ropeiksemme
abessive
ropettamme
ropeittamme
instructive
comitative
—ropeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ropenne
ropenne
accusative
nom.
ropenne
ropenne
gen.
ropenne
genitive
ropenne
ropejenne
partitive
ropeanne
ropejanne
inessive
ropessanne
ropeissanne
elative
ropestanne
ropeistanne
illative
ropeenne
ropeihinne
adessive
ropellanne
ropeillanne
ablative
ropeltanne
ropeiltanne
allative
ropellenne
ropeillenne
essive
ropenanne
ropeinanne
translative
ropeksenne
ropeiksenne
abessive
ropettanne
ropeittanne
instructive
comitative
—ropeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ropensa
ropensa
accusative
nom.
ropensa
ropensa
gen.
ropensa
genitive
ropensa
ropejensa
partitive
ropeaan ropeansa
ropejaan ropejansa
inessive
ropessaan ropessansa
ropeissaan ropeissansa
elative
ropestaan ropestansa
ropeistaan ropeistansa
illative
ropeensa
ropeihinsa
adessive
ropellaan ropellansa
ropeillaan ropeillansa
ablative
ropeltaan ropeltansa
ropeiltaan ropeiltansa
allative
ropelleen ropellensa
ropeilleen ropeillensa
essive
ropenaan ropenansa
ropeinaan ropeinansa
translative
ropekseen ropeksensa
ropeikseen ropeiksensa
abessive
ropettaan ropettansa
ropeittaan ropeittansa
instructive
comitative
—ropeineen ropeinensa :

#### Derived terms

* pöytärope
* ropettaa (“to roleplay”)

### Anagrams

* Repo, pore, repo

## Lithuanian
### Noun

rópe
* instrumental/vocative singular of rópė (“turnip”)

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

rope
* Alternative form of rop (“rope”)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

rope
* Alternative form of ropen (“to form ropes”)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

rope
* Alternative form of ropen (“to cry out”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse hrópa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną.

### Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense roper, simple past ropte, past participle ropt)
* to shout

#### Derived terms

* utrope

### References

* “rope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense ropar or roper, simple past ropa or ropte, past participle ropa or ropt, present participle ropande)
* Alternative form of ropa