ripo

From German Rippe, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”). Doublet of rifo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈripo/
• Rhymes: -ipo
• Hyphenation: ri‧po

ripo (accusative singular ripon, plural ripoj, accusative plural ripojn)

1. (anatomy) rib
   • 1907, Kabe, chapter 17, in La Faraono, part 1, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:

     Eĉ la piedpremataj homoj, al kiuj la ondanta amaso senkonscie rompis la ripojn kaj tordis la artikojn, havis nur unu krion: […]

     Even those who were being trampled, whose ribs the undulating mass unwittingly broke and whose joints they twisted, had only one call: […]

From ripar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈripo̝/

ripo m (plural ripos)

1. ripple or hackle (implement for removing the seed from flax)

   Synonym: ripanzo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ripo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ripo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ripo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

ripo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ripar

From Proto-Polynesian *lipo (compare with Tahitian riporipo, Hawaiian lipo and lipolipo)^[1] from Proto-Polynesian *lepu (“agitated, rough (of water)”).^[2] Doublet of riporipo.

• IPA^(key): /ri.po/, [ɾi.pɔ]

ripo

1. whirlpool, eddy, curl

   Synonym: āwhiowhio

ripo

1. to swirl, to eddy

   Synonym: āwhio

• riporipo
• kōripo

• “ripo” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

ripo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ripar

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾi.po]

ripo

1. (intransitive) to burst

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh