# rim
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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”), possibly 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.
** 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Master Chief (Steve Downes), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.
* (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
** 2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36:About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
* (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
** 1953 September 26, Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40‎:COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.
** 2004, John Russial, Strategic Copy Editing, page 130:A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […]
** 2009, Gaylon Eugene Murray, Effective Editing, page 7:On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.

##### Meronyms

* felloe

##### Derived terms

* above the rim
* Pacific Rim
* push rim
* rim lock
* rim out
* rim shot
* Scenic Rim
* sea-rim
* split rim

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

##### 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) To form a rim on.
* (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
    Palm trees rim the beach.
    A walking path rims the island.
* (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.
    The golf ball rimmed the cup.
    The basketball rimmed in and out.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From a variation of ream.

#### Verb

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)
* (vulgar, slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
** 1987 December, John W. Dagion, Sex Stop‎:I had learned to lick their sweaty balls and would know what they wanted if they pulled their pants down and pushed my face in their ass for a rimming out.
** 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.

##### Derived terms

* rim job

##### Related terms

* ream job

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English rēoma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-West Germanic *reumō.

#### Noun

rim (plural rims)
* (UK dialectal) A membrane.
* (UK dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
** 1599, Shakespeare, King Henry V, act iV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand:Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.

### Etymology 4

Unknown.

#### Noun

rim (plural rims)
* (British, dialectal) A step of a ladder; a rung.

### Further reading

* Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “RIM, sb.$^1$ and v.$^1$”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 114, column 2: “The rung of a ladder.”

### Anagrams

* IRM, MIR, MRI, Mir, RMI, miR, mir

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin rhythmus. Doublet of ritme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrim]

### Noun

rim m (plural rims)
* verse
    Synonym: vers
* rhyme
    Synonym: rima

#### Related terms

* rima

### Further reading

* “rim” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą.

#### Noun

rim c (singular definite rimen, not used in plural form)
* hoarfrost, rime

### Etymology 2

From late Old Norse rím, from Middle Low German rim, from French rime (“rhyme”).

#### Noun

rim n (singular definite rimet, plural indefinite rim)
* rhyme

##### Further reading

* rim on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

### Etymology 3

See rime.

#### Verb

rim
* imperative of rime

## Galician
### Verb

rim
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of rir:
** third-person plural present indicative
** first-person singular preterite indicative

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈrim/ [ˈrim]
* Rhymes: -im
* Syllabification: rim

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch riem, from Middle Dutch rieme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”), from Arabic رِزْمَة (rizma, “bundle”).

#### Noun

rim (plural rim-rim)
* ream, a bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets

### Etymology 2

From Dutch riem, from Middle Dutch rieme, from Old Dutch *riomo, from Proto-West Germanic *reumō.

#### Noun

rim (plural rim-rim)
* (colloquial) leather belt

### Further reading

* “rim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Mizo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rim/

### Noun

rim
* smell
* odour

### Adverb

rim
* hard

## Northern Kurdish
### Alternative forms

* rimb

### Etymology

From Arabic رُمْح (rumḥ). For rimb, compare the probably related Old Armenian ռումբ (ṙumb).

### Noun

r̄im ?
* spear, lance, javelin
* unit of measure the length of a spear

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: ռըմ (ṙəm) (Van, Moks, Shatakh)

### 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
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse rím and (Old?) French rime.

#### Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima or rimene)
* a rhyme

##### Derived terms

* barnerim

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrím.

#### Noun

rim m (definite singular rimen, uncountable)
* rime (frost)

##### Derived terms

* rimfrost

### References

* “rim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /riːm/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse rím, from Old French rime.

#### Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima)
* a rhyme

##### Derived terms

* barnerim

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrím. Akin to English rime.

#### Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)
* rime (frost)

##### Derived terms

* rimfrost

### References

* “rim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rīm, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“number, count, series”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to reason, count”). Akin to Old Frisian rīm, Old Saxon -rīm, Old High German rīm, Icelandic rím.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /riːm/

### Noun

rīm n
* number

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

* ġerīm (“number, reckoning”)
* rīmbōc (“calendar”)
* rīmcræft (“mathematics”)
* unrīm (“countless”)

#### Descendants

* >? English: rime, rhyme

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rin, from Latin rēn, from Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁĩ/ [ˈhĩ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁĩ/ [ˈhĩ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁĩ/ [ˈχĩ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁĩ/
* Rhymes: -ĩ
* Hyphenation: rim

### Noun

rim m (plural rins)
* kidney
* (in the plural) small of the back
* (Portugal) a pastry in the shape of a kidney

#### Related terms

* renal

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą.

### Noun

rim n
* a rhyme (two words that rhyme)
* a rhyme (rhyming verse)
* rhyme (rhyming)

#### Derived terms

* barnkammarrim
* bokstavsrim
* grötrim
* halvrim
* helrim
* julklappsrim
* kluvet rim
* kvinnligt rim
* löpande rim
* manligt rim
* nödrim
* parrim
* rim och reson
* rimstuga
* slutrim
* stavrim
* stockholmsrim
* uddrim
* ändrim

#### Related terms

* rimma

### References

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

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [zim˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʐim˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɹim˧˧]

### Verb

rim
* to cook food with a small amount of water over a period of time in order for salt or sugar to penetrate the food
    Cam sành chê đắng chê hôi, Hồng rim chê lạt, thuốc chồi khen ngon.(please add an English translation of this usage example)

## Volapük
### Noun

rim (nominative plural rims)
* rhyme

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### See also

* rimod

## Zhuang
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *k.temᴬ (“full”). Cognate with Thai เต็ม (dtem), Lao ເຕັມ (tem), Northern Thai ᨲᩮ᩠ᨾ, Lü ᦎᦲᧄ (ṫiim), Shan တဵမ် (tǎem), Nong Zhuang daem.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ɣim˨˦/
* Tone numbers: rim$^1$
* Hyphenation: rim

### Adjective

rim (1957–1982 spelling rim)
* full