reg

See also: -reg, Reg, reg., reg-, and rég

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Regi.

Symbol

reg

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kara (Tanzania) terms

English

Etymology 1

Clippings.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕj, rĕg, IPA^(key): /ɹɛd͡ʒ/, /ɹɛɡ/ (loosely by the pronunciation of the source word)

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdʒ, -ɛɡ

Noun

reg (plural regs)

1. (informal) A regular.

   I've been going to that chat room for months, and I know most of the regs by now.

2. (informal) A regulation.
   • 1990 December 16, “Prisoners Writing Prisoners”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 18:

     It makes me sad to see a prisoner complain about another prisoner not writing. His or her mailroom (or yours!) might have just tossed the letter; besides the rules and regs for prisoners writing each other are different in every state, and may change for no reason. Or, the rules may be ignored (especially for gay prisoners) also, even prisons that do accept mail from other prisoners, may not deliver it to people in isolation or on certain security levels.

3. registrar
4. registration
   1. (informal, UK) Clipping of registration number.

      What's your reg and where are you parked?

5. registry

Derived terms

• on the reg

Etymology 2

From regolith.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕg, IPA^(key): /ɹɛɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

reg (countable and uncountable, plural regs)

1. (geography) A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert.
   • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 66:

     As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg.

Synonyms

• (hard surface of rock in sand): hammada, serir, yardang, desert pavement

See also

• erg
• koum
• zeugen

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GER, GRE, Ger, Ger., Ger⁺⁶, erg, ger, gre

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch recht, from Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz (adjective) and *rehtą (noun), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛχ ~ ræχ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

reg (attributive regte, comparative regter, superlative regste)

1. right; correct
2. real; true; actual

Noun

reg (plural regte)

1. justice
2. right

Amanab

Noun

reg

1. child

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from regar.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

reg m (plural regs)

1. irrigation

Further reading

• “reg”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Chinese

Etymology

From clipping of English register.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛk̚⁵⁵/

Verb

reg

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to register (a course, a programme, an event, etc.)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁeːk/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Verb

reg

1. singular imperative of regen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of regen