ro

Clipping of English Romanian or Romanian român.

ro

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Romanian terms

From Proto-Great Andamanese *rok.

ro

1. canoe

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

ro

1. woman

• Raoul Zamponi, Betoi (2003)

• rho

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈro]

ro f (plural ros)

1. rho; the Greek letter Ρ (lowercase ρ)

Deverbalised form of ri (“to give”)

ro m (plural royow or rohow)

1. gift, present
2. donation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁoˀ/

From Old Norse ró (“rest”) (whence also the Icelandic ró (“calm, rest, tranquillity”)).

ro c (singular definite roen, not used in plural form)

1. calmness
2. (obsolete) fun, amusement

From Old Norse róa (“row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-.

ro (imperative ro, infinitive at ro, present tense ror, past tense roede, perfect tense er/har roet)

1. to row (using oars)

• “ro” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ro,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

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• IPA^(key): /ro/
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: ro

ro (accusative singular ro-on, plural ro-oj, accusative plural ro-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

ro

1. dark

ro

1. bitter

ro

1. (law enforcement) clipping of biro

ro m or f (invariable)

1. alternative spelling of rho

• or

ro

1. The hiragana syllable ろ (ro) or the katakana syllable ロ (ro) in Hepburn romanization.

ro

1. romanization of ꦫꦺꦴ

• IPA^(key): [ˈroː]

ro

1. leaf

• ro kutta
• ro wona

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “ro”, in Lamboya word list‎^[2], Leiden: LexiRumah

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zauq, compare Malay jauh.

ro

1. far

From Old English rā, rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, *raih, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą (“deer”).

• roo, ra, raa, roa

• IPA^(key): /rɔː/
• (early) IPA^(key): /rɑː/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /raː/

ro (plural ros or ron)

2. A roe deer (kind of deer)
3. (rare) The hide of a roe deer.

• roobukke

• English: roe
• Scots: ra, rae

• “rō, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 July 2018.

From Old English rō, rōw, from Proto-West Germanic *rōu (“calm, rest”).

• roo, rowe, rou

• IPA^(key): /roː/, /rɔu̯/

ro (uncountable)

2. Peacefulness, serenity, restfulness.

• English: roo
• Scots: ro, ruve

• “rọ̄, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 July 2018.

From Old Norse ró.

ro m or f (definite singular roen or roa)

1. peace, tranquility, quiet

• uro

From Old Norse róa.

ro (imperative ro, present tense ror, passive ros, simple past rodde, past participle rodd, present participle roende)

1. to row (a boat)

ro

1. imperative of roe

• “ro” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ruː/

From Old Norse ró. Akin to dialectal English roo.

ro f (definite singular roa, uncountable)

1. calm, tranquility, peace, quiet

• uro

From Old Norse róa, from Proto-Germanic *rōaną.

ro (present tense ror, past tense rodde, past participle rott/rodd, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative ro)

1. to row (a boat)
2. (figurative) to try to talk one's way out of something

• “ro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• or

• hrō, rao, rāo

From Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-. Cognates include Old English hrēaw, Old Norse hrár.

rō

1. raw

• Middle High German: rō, rōch, rou, rā
  • Central Franconian: rüh, rieh, reh
    • Luxembourgish: réi
  • German: roh
  • Yiddish: רוי (roy)

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

• IPA^(key): /ro/
• Rhymes: -ro

ro

1. two

• > Javanese: ꦫꦺꦴ (ro) (inherited)
• ⇒ Javanese: ꦫꦺꦴꦫꦺꦴ (roro), ꦭꦺꦴꦫꦺꦴ (loro)
• → Balinese: ᬭᭀ (ro)

• "ro" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

ro

1. nominative singular of ra (“Pali letter 'r'”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: ro

ro n (indeclinable)

1. alternative form of rho

• ro in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ɾɔ/^[1][2]
• (North Uist) IPA^(key): /ɾɔ̝̃/^[3]
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [ɾɔ̝]^[4]

From Old Irish ró,^[5] from Proto-Celtic *ɸro (compare Old Welsh ry), from Proto-Indo-European *pro (compare Latin pro).

ro (+ dative, triggers lenition)

1. very, too, much, exceedingly

   ro-bheag ― too little

   le ro-aire ― with great care

   ro mhath ― very good

   Tha e ro fhuar.

   It is too cold.

   ro aire ― great attention

   Is tu an Dia ro mhòr.

   Thou art the very great God.

   Chan eil mi ro chinnteach.

   I am not too sure.

   Tha e ro bhochd.

   He is very sick (or poor).

   Chan eil e ro thogarrach.

   He is not excessively willing.

   ro sgairteil ― very active

   ro shleamhainn ― very slippery

   Bu ro chaomh leam tighinn.

   I should very much like to come.

• Used as a prefix to adjectives, and supplying the place of a superlative.
• Lenites the first letter of the following word except if it starts with l, n or r, or by s followed by any consonant except l, n or r.

From Old Irish ré. Cognates include Irish roimh.

ro (+ dative, triggers lenition)

1. before

   Thigibh ro chòig uairean.

   Come before five o'clock.

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ro”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[3], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

• IPA^(key): /ˈro/ [ˈro]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ro

ro f (plural ros)

1. rho; the Greek letter Ρ, ρ

   Synonym: rho

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

• IPA^(key): /ruː/

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From Old Norse róa, from Proto-Germanic *rōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-.

ro (present ror, preterite rodde, supine rott, imperative ro)

1. to row; to transport oneself in a small boat, with help of oars

   Vem kan segla förutan vind, vem kan ro utan åror?

   Who can sail without wind, who can row without oars?

   (folk song lyrics)

2. (colloquial, in "ro hit (med något)") to quickly hand over, to pass

   Ro hit med kebabsåsen!

   Pass the kebab sauce!

• ro hem

• åra

From Old Swedish ro (“rest”), German Ruhe with a secondary meaning in Swedish of entertainment, pastime (during the rest).^[1]

ro c (uncountable)

1. peace, quiet, tranquility

• ro in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ro in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ro in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• -or, or

Cognate with Persian راه (rah).

ro

1. road

• IPA^(key): /roː/

ro

1. soft mutation of rho

Related to etymology 2, compare with Igbo lò (“to reflect”)

• IPA^(key): /ɾò/

rò

1. (intransitive) to think

   Mo rò pé kò dáa kéèyàn máa jíwèé wò. ― I think it's not good for people to be cheating.

• èrò (“thought”)

• IPA^(key): /ɾò/

rò

1. (transitive) to stir

ro when followed by a direct object.

• rírò (“stirred, stirring”)
• ronú (“to think”)

• IPA^(key): /ɾō/

ro

1. (transitive) to hoe, to till

   Oko tí àgbẹ̀ ro lánàá nìyí. ― This is the field that the farmers tilled yesterday.

• roko (“to cultivate, to hoe a field”)

• IPA^(key): /ɾó/

ró

1. (transitive) to wrap, to tie a wrapper, skirt, or towel.

   Báwo la ṣe máa ró ìró. ― How does one tie a wrapper.

• ìró (“wrapper”)

• IPA^(key): /ɾó/

ró

1. (transitive) to sound, to emit a sound.

• ìró (“sound”)

Compare with Igbo lo (“to ache”)

IPA^(key): /ɾō/

ro

1. (transitive) to pain, to hurt, to ache

   Ẹ̀yìn ń ro mí. ― My back is paining me.

   (My back hurts)

• ríro (“paining”)

IPA^(key): /ɾó/

ró

1. (Ijebu) to live

   Mo ró n’Íbàdọ̀n ― I live in Ibadan

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾo]
• Hyphenation: ro

ro

1. brook, stream, creek^[1]