rif

Clipping of English Riffian or abbreviation of Tarifit Tarifit.

rif

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tarifit.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tarifit terms

• Rhymes: -ɪf

rif (third-person singular simple present rifs, present participle riffing, simple past and past participle riffed)

1. Alternative letter-case form of RIF.
   • 1991, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Peter J. Frost, Reframing Organizational Culture, →ISBN, page 152:

     This sense was expressed in a story about a friend who had been laid off (riffed) in a particularly uncaring manner.

   • 2003, Byron K. Simerson, Michael D. McCormick, Fired, Laid Off, Out of a Job, →ISBN:

     If an employee is not given concrete and objective reasons for being riffed, it may be assumed the decision, "must have been discrimination" due to race, sex, age, ethnic background, or other wrongful basis.

   • 2014, Murray Farish, Inappropriate Behavior: Stories, →ISBN, page 151:

     People are being riffed at her company, too.

• FIR, Fri, IFR, IRF, RFI, fir

From Dutch rif, Middle Dutch rif, ref, from Old Norse rif (literally “rib”), from Proto-Germanic *ribją.

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rif (plural riwwe)

1. reef

• reef

From Middle Dutch rif, ref, from Old Norse rif (literally “rib”), from Proto-Germanic *ribją.

• IPA^(key): /rɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

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rif n (plural riffen, diminutive rifje n)

1. reef: a chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water

• koraalrif

• → Papiamentu: ref, rif

rif n (plural reven, diminutive rifje n)

1. (nautical) reef: an arrangement to reduce the area of a sail in a high wind

Inherited from Old Norse rif, from Proto-Germanic *ribją.

• IPA^(key): /rɪːv/
• Rhymes: -ɪːv

rif n (genitive singular rifs, nominative plural rif)

1. rib

   Synonym: rifbein

2. reef

From Old Norse rif, from Proto-Germanic *ribją.

rif n

1. rib

• Swedish: rev, revben

From Proto-Cushitic *rif-. Cognates include Oromo rifuu.

rif

1. to pluck, to break off

• “rif” In: Abdullah Umar Mansur (1985) Qaamuska Afsoomaliga.

• IPA^(key): /riːv/

rif

1. soft mutation of rhif