# red
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: rĕd, IPA: /ɹɛd/, [ɻʷɛˑd̥]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* Homophone: read (past tense/participle)
* Rhymes: -ɛd

### Etymology 1

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

#### Adjective

red (comparative redder or more red, superlative reddest or most red)
* Of a red hue.
    The girl wore a red skirt.
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
** 1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “I: A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1), →ISBN:The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.
* (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
    Her hair had red highlights.
* (of the skin) Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
** 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 23:[T]he sun was shining on a happy crowd. It shone on white hats and red faces. It shone on ice lollies and melted them.
* (of a dog or its coat) Having a brown color.
* (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
    I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
* (politics, often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
** Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
*** "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with.
    the red-black grand coalition in Germany
** (US politics) The U.S. Republican Party. [21st c.]
    a red state
    a red Congress
* (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
** 1994, Soundgarden, Spoonman:All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red
* (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
* (particle physics) Of a red color charge.

##### Synonyms

* (color): scarlet, crimson, vermilion, ruby-red, cherry-red, cerise, cardinal-red, carmine, wine-red, claret-red, blood-red (sanguine), coral-red, cochineal-red, rose-red (rosy, damask), brick-red, maroon, rust-red (rusty), rufous-red, gules-red, rufescent.

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “having red as its colour”): nonred, unred
* (antonym(s) of “having red as its colour charge”): antired

##### Derived terms

* Adrianople red
* alizarin red
* anti-red
* apple red
* arctic red jellyfish
* arrest-me-red
* ash-red
* barn red
* beetroot red
* better dead than red
* big red button
* big red switch
* bleed red ink
* blood-red
* blood-red fancy
* blue-red
* brick-red
* cadmium red
* Cambodian red
* Canadian red pine
* cardinal red
* carmine red
* carthamus red
* catch red-handed
* cherry-red
* Christmas Island red crab
* code red
* Cuban red macaw
* cut red tape
* dago red
* dark red, dead-red
* eastern red cedar
* Ezo red fox
* Falun red
* Falu red
* French red
* Great Red Dragon
* grey red-backed vole
* Harlan's red-tailed hawk
* Harrison red
* Himalayan red bear
* indigo red
* infra-red
* Irish red ale
* kino red
* Little Red Riding Hood
* Magdala red, magdala red
* Miss Waldron's red colobus
* Moroccan red, Morocco red
* Mount Graham red squirrel
* Murray red gum
* Nantucket red
* naphthalene red
* Nile red
* northern red-backed vole
* northern red oak
* Old Red Sandstone
* paint the town red
* paranitraniline red
* para red
* Parliamentary red
* picrosirius red
* Prussian red
* put on the red light
* Quebec red trout
* quinova red
* ragged red fibers
* raise red flags
* ratanhia red
* red admirable
* red admiral
* red alder
* red ale
* red alert
* red alga
* red-and-green macaw
* red and silver dewdrop
* red ant
* red antimony
* red ape
* red apple
* Red Army
* red arrow
* red as a beetroot
* red as a lobster
* red ash
* red-assed
* red avadavat
* red-backed fairywren
* red-backed hawk
* red-backed sea eagle
* red-backed shrike
* red-back, redback, red back
* red bag delivery
* red-bait
* red-baiter
* red-baiting
* red ball
* red banana
* red band
* red-banded sand wasp
* red bandfish
* red banner
* red bay (tree)
* Red Bay (toponym)
* red bayberry
* red bean
* red bean porridge
* red beet
* red-bellied black snake
* red-bellied piranha
* red-bellied titi
* red biddy
* red-billed
* red-billed gull
* red-billed leiothrix
* red-billed woodcreeper
* red birch
* red-bird, redbird
* red-black tree
* red-blood
* red blood cell
* red blood cell cast
* red-blooded
* red-bloodedness
* Red Bluff
* red book
* red bourgeoisie
* red box
* red brass
* red-breasted flycatcher
* red-breasted goose
* red-breasted merganser
* red-breasted sapsucker
* red-brick, redbrick
* red brick university
* Red Brigades
* red-brown
* red brush
* redbud
* redbug
* red building paper
* red button
* red cabbage
* red campion
* red cap
* red-capped
* red-capped parrot
* red car
* red cardinal
* red cardinal flower
* red card, red-card
* red-carpetful
* red carpet, red-carpet
* Redcastle
* red caviar
* red cedar
* red cell
* red cent
* red chalk
* red chamber
* red-chested cuckoo
* red chickweed
* Red China
* red chip
* red chokeberry
* red circle rate
* Red Cloud
* red clover
* red clump
* red Clydeside
* red coat, redcoat
* red-cockaded woodpecker
* red codling
* red-collared lorikeet
* red-collared widowbird
* red colobus
* red-cook
* red copper
* red coral
* red corpuscle
* red cotton-tree, red cotton tree
* Red Crescent
* red-crested pochard
* Red Cross
* red crossbill
* red-crowned crane
* red cunt hair
* red currant
* red currant]], red-currant
* red cypress
* red daikon
* red day
* red dead man's fingers
* red deer
* red delicious
* redden
* red detuning
* red-diaper
* red diaper baby, red-diaper baby
* red diesel
* reddish
* red dog
* Red Dot
* red drum
* red dwarf
* red-eared slider
* red-eared terrapin
* red-eared turtle
* red ear syndrome
* red earth
* red egg
* red elm
* red ensign
* red envelope
* Red Eye
* red-eyed
* red-eye gravy
* red eye, red-eye, redeye
* red-faced
* red-faced cormorant
* red face test
* red factor canary
* red-fan parrot
* red fascism
* red fascist
* red fescue
* red fever
* red figure
* red-finned shark
* red-fin shark
* red fir
* red fire
* redfish
* red flag day
* red-flaggy
* red flag in front of a bull
* red flag knowledge
* red flag law
* red flag, Red Flag
* red flag to a bull
* red flag warning
* Red Flames
* red-flanked bluetail
* red flour beetle
* red flower
* red-footed falcon
* red-footed tortoise
* red forest
* red fox
* red-fronted tinkerbird
* red fuming nitric acid
* red geyser
* red giant
* red ginger
* red gold
* red goods
* red grape
* red-green alliance
* red-green-brown alliance
* red-green coalition
* red-green, red green
* red grouse
* Red Guard, red guard
* red gum, red-gum
* red gurnard
* red hair
* red hake
* red-handed
* red-handedly
* red-handedness
* red hat
* Red Hawke
* redhead
* red-headed Eskimo
* red-headed honeyeater
* red-headed, redheaded
* red-headed stepchild
* red-headed vulture
* red heat
* red Helen
* red herring
* red herring prospectus
* Red Hill
* red hind
* red hornweed
* red horse, redhorse
* red-hot minute
* red-hot poker
* red-hot, red hot
* red huckleberry
* red-humped caterpillar
* red hydrogen
* red imported fire ant
* red ink
* red-inker
* red in the face
* red in tooth and claw
* red ivory
* red jackal
* red jade
* red judge
* red junglefowl
* red juniper
* red kangaroo
* Red Ken
* red king crab
* red kite
* red knot
* red kuri squash
* Red Lake County
* Red Lake Falls
* red lane
* red lead
* red leaf
* red Leb
* red-legged golden orb-weaver spider
* red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum)
* red-legged partridge
* red-legged tinamou
* red-leg, red leg
* Red Leicester
* red letter
* red-letter
* red letter date
* red-letter day, red letter day
* red-letter edition
* red letter law
* red licorice
* red light
* red-light camera, red light camera
* red-light district, red light district
* red line
* Red Liner
* red-line torpedo barb
* red link
* red-linked
* red lion
* red-lipped batfish
* red liquor
* red liquorice
* Red List
* red lives matter
* Red Lodge
* red lynx
* red-maids, red maids
* red mammee, red mamey
* red man
* red manganese
* red manganese oxide
* red mange
* red man syndrome
* red maple (Acer rubrum)
* red marrow
* red mass
* red mead
* red measles
* red meat
* red meat radish
* red menace
* red mercury
* red mirage
* red mist
* red mite
* red moki
* red mongo
* red monkey
* red mud
* red mulberry
* red mulga
* red mullet
* red-necked buzzard
* red-necked francolin
* red-necked grebe
* red-necked phalarope
* red-necked stint
* red-necked wallaby
* red-necked woodpecker
* red neck syndrome
* red Ned
* red neuralgia
* red-nigger, red nigger
* red nightshade
* red noise
* red-nose tetra
* red notice
* red nucleus
* red nugget
* red nugget galaxy
* Red Oak (toponym)
* red oak
* red oak tree
* red ocher, red ochre
* red onion
* red osier
* red osier dogwood
* red owl
* red oxide
* red oxygen
* red packet
* red panda
* red pea
* red-pencil
* red penny
* red pepper
* red phalarope
* red phosphorus
* red pill
* red pilled
* red piller
* red pine
* red pipe
* red piranha
* red plague
* red planet
* red point, red-point
* Red Poll
* redpoll (Acanthis spp.)
* red poppy
* red porgy
* red precipitate
* red princess flower
* red puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis)
* red pudding
* red pussy hair
* red rag
* red-ragger
* red rag to a bull
* red rail
* red raspberry
* red rattle
* red rattler
* red-red stew
* red ribbon
* red rice
* red rider
* red-rimmed
* red ring
* red ring disease
* red ring of death
* red ring skirt
* red river hog
* Red Rock
* red rock crab
* red rocket
* red room
* redroot
* Red Rose of Lancaster
* Red Roses
* red rosin paper
* red rot
* red route
* red-rumped swallow
* Red Russian kale
* red sage
* red salmon
* red sanders
* red sauce
* Red Scar
* red scare
* red scarf
* Red Sea
* red sea
* Red Sea Hills
* red seaperch
* red setter
* red-shafted flicker
* red shale
* redshank
* red shank
* red-shanked douc
* red shift
* red shirt, red-shirt
* red-short
* red-shortness
* red-shouldered hawk
* red silky oak
* red silver
* red siskin
* red slaw
* red slender loris
* red snake
* red snapper
* red snow
* red sorrel
* red spider
* red spider lily
* red spiral
* red spiral galaxy
* Red Spot
* red-spotted purple
* red sprite
* red spruce
* red spurge
* red squad
* Red Square
* red squill (Drimia maritima)
* red squirrel
* Red Star
* red-start
* red state
* red steenbras
* red strawberry tongue
* red string of fate
* reds under the bed
* red sunflower
* red supergiant
* red swampdragon
* red tag
* red-tagging
* red tail disease
* red-tailed black cockatoo
* red-tailed black shark
* red-tailed hawk
* red-tailed phascogale
* red tailed shark
* red-tailed shrike
* red-tailed squirrel
* red-tailed tropicbird
* red tape
* red-tapeism
* red-tapism
* red-tapist
* red tea
* red teamer
* red-team, red team
* red terror
* red-throat
* red-throated diver
* red-throated loon
* red-throated pipit
* red-throated thrush
* red-throated tit
* red tide
* red tiger
* red time
* red toad trillium
* red-toothed
* red-toothed shrew
* red-top, red top, redtop
* red-to-red
* red triangle slug
* red trillium
* red turtle dove
* red under the bed
* red-up, red up
* red valerian
* red-veined darter
* red-veined dock
* red velvet
* red velvet cake, red-velvet cake
* red velvet mite
* red vet pet
* Red Vienna
* red vitriol
* Red Volta
* red wall
* red water
* red wattlebird
* red wave
* red wedding
* red week
* Red Wharf Bay
* red whortleberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
* red wiggler
* Red Willow County
* Red Willow Creek
* red wine headache
* Red Wing
* red-winged blackbird
* red-winged fairywren
* red-winged tinamou
* redwing, red-wing
* red wings
* red wolf
* red won
* redwood
* red worm (Lumbricina spp.)
* red yeast rice
* red zone, red-zone
* river red gum
* roll out the red carpet
* rose red, rosy-red
* rosy-red minnow
* royal red prawn
* ruby-red, ruby red
* run a red light
* ruthenium red
* scarlet red
* Shasta red fir
* sit dead-red
* Spanish red
* spot-red
* straight red
* straight red card
* take the red eye
* take the red pill
* tile red
* turn a number of shades of red
* turn on red
* unexpected red theory
* violet red bile agar
* we all bleed red
* western red cedar (Thuja plicata)
* wormred
* yellow-red

##### Translations
#### Noun

red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)
* (countable and uncountable) The colour of the setting sun; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
    red:
    Red can be seen as hot or angry.
* (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
    Coordinate term: pinko
* (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
* (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
** 1977 September, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”, in The Stranger:A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant.
** 2005, Jeffrey P. Landry, Temptation Mango:He produced a wine key from his jacket pocket and effortlessly removed the cork from the bottle of red.
** 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:59 sneak in some red Smuggle a bottle of wine, two glasses, and a corkscrew into a long matinee. Red wine is rich in life-extending antioxidants, and the caper will add zest even to a bad movie.
* (countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
    Hyponyms: Flanders red, Irish red
** 2012 June 5, Howard Stelzer, Beer Cocktails: 50 Superbly Crafted Cocktails that Liven Up Your Lagers and Ales, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN:American reds and doppelbocks are heavy lagers as well. It really comes down to how the beer was made. Beyond that, brewers are immensely creative and have developed styles of both ale and lager that run a wide range of attributes.
** 2016 April 1, Lonely Planet, Helena Smith, Andy Symington, Donna Wheeler, Lonely Planet Belgium & Luxembourg, Lonely Planet, →ISBN:No other country has a brewing tradition as richly diverse as that of Belgium, with beers ranging from pleasant pale lagers to wild, winelike Flemish reds and lambics.
* (countable, informal, Australia) A red kangaroo.
* (countable, informal, UK, birdwatching) A redshank.
* (derogatory, offensive) An American Indian.
    Synonym: redskin
* (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
    Synonyms: redbird, red devil
** 1970, “Truckin'”, in American Beauty, performed by Grateful Dead:What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? / She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same / Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine
** 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 202:The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack—Seconal and heroin—and a hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers.
** 1998, Jeffery Deaver, The Coffin Dancer, New York, NY: Pocket Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 285:“Whatchu got, man?” / “Reds, bennies, dexies, yellow jackets, demmies.” / “Yeah, demmies're good shit, man. I pay you. Fuck. I got money. I'm hurting inside. Got beat up. Where my money?”
* (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
** 1974, Tom Waits (lyrics and music), “(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night”, in The Heart of Saturday Night‎:Stopping on the red, you're going on the green / Cause tonight will be like nothing you've ever seen / And you're barreling down the boulevard / You're looking for the heart of Saturday night
* (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade
* (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
* (US, colloquial, uncountable) Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
** 1982, The Rotarian, volume 140, number 1, page 39:Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red. Houston eagerly took his first large spoonful. His eyes watering, he spat out his bite […]
* (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
** 2013 November, Catch Cormier, “Sightcasting for redfish”, in Louisiana Sportsman‎:The species Sciaenops ocellatus certainly isn’t lacking for nicknames. […] Clear water also favors sightcasting. Against the dark background of marsh mud, a red will appear like a pumpkin — big, orange and round.
* (slang, uncountable) Tomato ketchup.
** 2016, Jon Bounds, Danny Smith, Pier Review: A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside:I squeeze some red out over my chips and feel guilty. Nothing is as English as Heinz ketchup in the sauce game, except perhaps HP.

##### Derived terms

* antired
* beet red
* blood red
* brick red
* cherry red
* Chinese red
* chrome red
* cinchona red
* cinchonic red
* Congo red
* fire engine red
* flowerpot red
* Indian red
* in the red
* Panama Red
* Paris red
* phenol red
* Pompeian red
* postbox red
* sand red
* see red
* strawberry red
* Turkey red
* Tuscan red
* Venetian red
* wine red
* wormred

##### Translations
#### See also

* blood red
* brick red
* burgundy
* cardinal
* carmine
* carnation
* cerise
* cherry
* cherry red
* Chinese red
* cinnabar
* claret
* crimson
* damask
* fire brick
* fire engine red
* flame
* flamingo
* fuchsia
* garnet
* geranium
* gules
* hot pink
* incarnadine
* Indian red
* magenta
* maroon
* misty rose
* nacarat
* oxblood
* pillar-box red
* pink
* Pompeian red
* poppy
* raspberry
* red violet
* rose
* rouge
* ruby
* ruddy
* salmon
* sanguine
* scarlet
* shocking pink
* stammel
* strawberry
* Turkey red
* Venetian red
* vermilion
* vinaceous
* vinous
* violet red
* wine
* primary colour
Colors/Colours in English (layout · text) :
| red | orange | yellow | green | blue (incl. indigo; cyan, teal, turquoise) | purple / violet |
| pink (including magenta) | brown | | white | gray/grey | black |

#### References

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “red”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* “red”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “red”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Etymology 2

From the archaic verb rede.

#### Verb

red
* (archaic) simple past and past participle of rede

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)
* Alternative spelling of redd

#### References

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “redd”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* “red”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* DRE, Der, Der., EDR, ERD, RDE, der, erd

## Bislama
### Etymology

From English red.

### Adjective

red
* red

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reːd/, [ʁæðˀ]

### Verb

red
* past of ride

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: red
* Rhymes: -ɛt
* Homophones: redt, Reth

### Verb

red
* inflection of redden:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* der

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁeːt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eːt

### Verb

red
* singular imperative of reden

## Italian
### Noun

red
* a type of rice

## Manx
### Etymology

From Old Irish rét.

### Noun

red m (genitive singular red, plural reddyn)
* thing, object, item
    Cha daink reddyn dy mie.Things didn't pan out well.
    Cha nel shen deyr son y leagh t'er reddyn nish.That's not dear as things go.
    Kanys ta reddyn goll er?How are things?
    Son y chied red, t'eh ro vie dy ve firrinagh.For one thing, it is too good to be true.
    Ta reddyn couyral.Things are getting better.
    Ta reddyn ennagh ayn nagh vel niart ain orroo.There are some things we cannot help.
    Ta shen red aitt.That's a curious thing.
    T'eh yn un red.It amounts to the same thing.
    T'eh çheet stiagh rish yn red elley.It falls in with the other thing.
    She'n red hene eh y traa shoh.It's the real thing this time.
    Va shen yn red cooie dy ghra.That was the appropriate thing to say.
* matter

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English rǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *rād, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz.

#### Alternative forms

* ræd, rede, reed

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛːd/, /reːd/

#### Noun

red (plural redes)
* counsel, advice, recommendation
* persuasion, convincing
* agreement, permission, allowance
* decree, edict
* decision, will, purpose
* judgement, judicial decision, opinion
* plan, strategy, programme, plot
* event, happening, occurrence
* benefit, boon, help
* deliberation, discussion
* wisdom

##### Related terms

* hird

##### Descendants

* English: rede
* Scots: rede

##### References

* “rēd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

### Etymology 2

From Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud.

#### Alternative forms

* red, reed, reede, reod, reede, rode, rued

#### Pronunciation

* (Early Middle English) IPA: /røːd/
* IPA: /reːd/

#### Noun

red (plural redes)
* reed, flax (plant)
* The stalk of a reed
* straw, thatching
* reed pen

##### Descendants

* English: reed
* Scots: reed

##### References

* “rēd, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

### Etymology 3

From Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós.

#### Alternative forms

* redde, reed, read, ræd

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛːd/, /reːd/

#### Adjective

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)
* red, crimson, scarlet (in color)
* red pigment
* reddened, dyed red
* blushing, red-faced
* bloody, blood-stained
* ruddy, rosy
* red-haired
* red-clothed, wearing red
* (metal) golden
* (alchemy) causing transmutation into gold

##### Descendants

* English: red
* Scots: rede, reid
* Yola: reed

##### References

* “rēd, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

#### Noun

red
* red (colour)
* red pigment, vermillion, cinnabar
* (heraldry) red, gules (tincture)
* reddish or ruddy skin
* reddish eyes or irises
* red fabric
* red wine
* blood

##### Related terms

* Rede See

##### Descendants

* English: red
* Scots: rede, reid
* Yola: reed

##### See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text) :
| whit | grey, hor | blak |
| red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry, gul; canevas |
| grasgrene | grene | |
| plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
| violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |

##### References

* “rēd, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

## Northern Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɛd

### Verb

red
* to disappear.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* rei

### Verb

red
* simple past of ri
* simple past of ride

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /red/

### Noun

red m
* Alternative form of ræd

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt
* Syllabification: red

### Noun

red
* genitive plural of reda

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rêːd/

### Noun

rȇd m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑д)
* row
* (mathematics) series
    konvergentan red ― convergent series
    divergentan red ― divergent series
* queue
* order (of magnitude)
* order (arrangement, disposition)
* line (of customers)
* (chess) rank
* (religion) order
    franjevački red ― order of Saint Francis of Assisi

#### Declension
### References

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

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /réːt/

#### Noun

rẹ̑d m inan
* order (arrangement, disposition)

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /réːt/

#### Noun

rẹ̑d f
* swath (the track cut out by a scythe in mowing)

##### Inflection
### Further reading

* “red”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “red”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish red, from Latin rēte (“net”). Cognate with English rete.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈred/ [ˈreð̞]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ed
* Syllabification: red

### Noun

red f (plural redes)
* (hunting, tools) web, mesh
* (fishing) net
** 1911, Benito Pérez Galdós, De Cartago a Sagunto : 13:Si se consigue pescar a Dorregaray con cuarenta mil duretes, a Cástor Andéchaga con veinticinco mil, y a otros tales, habremos hecho más que cogiendo en la red a los bicharracos de menor cuantía.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* spiderweb
    Synonyms: telaraña, tela de araña
* trap, snare
    Synonyms: trampa, cepo
* (communication, transport) net, network
    red de carreteras ― highway network
    red de radiodifusoras ― radio broadcasters network
    red televisiva ― TV broadcasting network
* (sports) net, goal
* (electricity) grid
    fuera de la red ― off the grid
* (informal, sometimes capitalized) Web, Internet
** 2013 January 16, “España: al 74% le gustaría acceder por Red a su historial clínico”, in El País‎:La mayoría de la población (84%) accede a la red para temas relacionados con la sanidad.Most of the population (84%) accesses the web for health-related topics.
** 2021 January 29, Sara Rivas Moreno, quoting Paula González, “Las pymes montan la tienda en Instagram”, in El País‎, Madrid, →ISSN:"Nunca hemos hecho una campaña ni hemos pagado por seguidores, pero como soy prehistórica de la Red, me une una relación de contacto y amistad con muchas influencers; de no ser así, no nos sacarían", puntualiza.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (in the plural) social networks
    Synonym: redes sociales

#### Derived terms

* enredar
* enredo
* red de pesca
* red social
* red trófica
* redada
* redecilla
* redil
* romperedes

#### Related terms

* reticular
* retina

### Further reading

* “red”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reːd/
* Rhymes: -eːd

### Verb

red
* imperative of reda
* past indicative of rida

### Anagrams

* der

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

red (definite accusative reddi, plural redler)
* Alternative form of ret (“refusal, rejection”)

## Volapük
### Etymology

Borrowed from English red.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /red/

### Noun

red (nominative plural reds)
* the colour red

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* redik

### See also

Colors in Volapük · köls (layout · text) :
| viet | ged | bläg |
| red | rojan; braun | yelov |
| | grün | |
| | | blöv |
| violät | purpur | redül |

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English redden, from Old English hreddan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛd/

### Verb

red
* to save
** 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 11:In durk Ich red virst mee left-vooted shoe."In the dark I happened first on my left-footed shoe."

### References

* Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎, volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129