ribbe

ribbe (plural ribbes)

1. Obsolete form of rib.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 15:

     But from the exility of bones, thinnesse of skulls, smallnesse of teeth, ribbes, and thigh-bones; not improbable that many thereof were persons of minor age, or women.

• bribe

ribbe

1. plural of rib

• IPA^(key): /ripə/, [ˈʁib̥ə]

From Middle Low German ribbe, rebbe (“rib, strip”), from Proto-Germanic *ribją, cognate with German Rippe, English rib, Old Norse rif (“reef”). Doublet of rev (“reef”).

ribbe c (singular definite ribben, plural indefinite ribber)

1. rim, stripe (in cloths)
2. (botany) rib (veins in a leaf)
3. holder (for the baking sheet in an oven)
4. bar (used to support something)
5. (architecture) rib (an arched projection)
6. (gymnastics) wall bars (an exercise equipment)

• “ribbe,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Low German ribben (“to tear”), from Proto-Germanic *rippōną, *ribōną (“to tear off”), cognate with Dutch rippen, Faroese ripa, Norwegian ripe. An intensive of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (“to tear”).

ribbe (past tense ribbede, past participle ribbet)

1. to remove (almost everything)
2. to plunder

• “ribbe,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Dutch *ribba, from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribjō.

ribbe f

1. rib

• rebbe

• Dutch: rib
• West Flemish: rebbe

• “ribbe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ribbe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• rib, ribe

From Old English ribb, from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją.

ribbe (plural ribbes)

1. rib

• English: rib
• Scots: rib
• Yola: rub

• “rib(be, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ribbe f

1. hound's tongue (Cynoglossum officinale)

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• English: rib

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ribbe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.