Faroese

Proper noun

Rut f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Rut: Rutarson
• daughter of Rut: Rutardóttir

Declension

Italian

Proper noun

Rut f

1. A female given name; equivalent to the English-language Ruth
2. Ruth (biblical character)
3. the Book of Ruth

Norwegian

Proper noun

Rut

1. Ruth (biblical character).
2. A female given name, usually spelled Ruth.

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 385 females with the given name Rut, compared to 9707 with named Ruth, living in Norway on January 1st 2011. Accessed on April 14th 2011.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Ruth

Etymology

From Latin Ruth.

Proper noun

Rut f

1. (bible) Ruth (the book of the Bible)
2. (biblical) Ruth
3. A female given name

Swedish

Proper noun

Rut

1. Ruth (biblical character).
2. A female given name.

Usage notes

• Popular given name in Sweden from the 1890s to the 1920s.

References

• Sture Allén, Staffan Wahlin, Förnamnsboken, Almqvist&Wiksell 1979, ISBN 9120067399
• Statistiska centralbyrån: 23 268 females with the given name Rut, compared to 14 540 named Ruth, living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010. Accessed on April 14th, 2011.

English

Noun

rut ‎(plural ruts)

1. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals
2. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

Translations

Verb

rut ‎(third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (intransitive) to be in the annual rut
2. (intransitive) to have sexual intercourse
3. (transitive) To mount or cover during copulation.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Translations

Etymology 2

16th century. Probably from French route ‘road’

Noun

rut ‎(plural ruts)

1. (automotive) A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road
2. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)
3. A dull routine

   Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.

Translations

Verb

rut ‎(third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (transitive) To make a furrow

Translations

Anagrams

• RTU
• tur

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• rot (southern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German rōt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʀuːt/

Adjective

rut ‎(masculine rude, feminine rut, comparative ruder, superlative et rutste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin rugītus. Cf. also rugir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyt/

Noun

rut m ‎(plural ruts)

1. rut (sexual excitement)

Lojban

Rafsi

rut

1. rafsi of grute.

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German rōt ‎(“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt ‎(“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), akin to Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood); from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Adjective

rūt

1. red