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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Rengao.

Symbol

ren

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

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Rengao terms

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin rēn. Doublet of rein (“kidney”).

Noun

ren (plural renes)

  1. (anatomy) A kidney.
    • 1759, Malcolm Flemyng, “Lecture XIX. On the kidneys and urinary bladder. Gravel; calculus.”, in An Introduction to Physiology, Being a Courſe of Lectures Upon the moſt important Parts of the Animal Œconomy: […], London: J. Nourse, →OCLC, page 259:
      Having treated laſt of the expulſion of the inteſtinal fæces, we come next to conſider thoſe organs, which ſeparate and throw off another principal excrementitious matter, to wit, urine. The firſt of which is the renes or kidneys.
    • 1810, William Tully, “On Aliment”, in Proceedings of the Presidents and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society, published 1884, page 326:
      We find, however, that the detrita, consisting principally of effete hydrogen and carbon, brought into the circulation by the absorbents, are constantly making their escape from the system by way of the renes, skin, and lungs, in the forms of water, and carbonic-acid.
    • 1858, William Tully, Materia Medica; Or, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, page 1195:
      It would probably have been considered an important omission if I had not mentioned Water as a substance excreted freely by the renes or kidneys.
    • 1893, Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences:
      Renal. Belonging to the ren or kidney.
Translations

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Egyptian rn,

r
n		 A2

Noun

ren (plural rens)

  1. (Egyptian mythology) One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
    • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
      For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

The Tosk (Çamërisht, Arbëreshë/Arvanite) and also Old Albanian form of Standard Albanian re (“cloud, clouds”).

Noun

ren f

  1. cloud(s)
  2. haze, mist
  3. overcast

Catalan

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Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hrainaz
Old Norse hreinn
Swedish renbor.
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Old Norse hreinn
Norwegian Nynorsk reinbor.
French rennebor.
Catalan ren

    Borrowed from French renne.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    ren m (plural rens)

    1. reindeer

    Chinese

    Etymology

    Clipping of English render.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    ren

    1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computer graphics) to render
      ren片 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  ren1 pin3-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to render a video
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    Chuukese

    Preposition

    ren

    1. with (third person singular)

    Cimbrian

    Verb

    ren

    1. to speak
    2. to talk

    References

    • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

    Danish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /reːˀn/, [ˈʁæˀn]

    Etymology 1

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Germanic *hrainaz
    Old Norse hreinn
    Danish ren

      Inherited from Old Norse hreinn n.

      Noun

      ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rener)

      1. reindeer
        Synonym: rensdyr
      Declension
      More information common gender, singular ...
      Derived terms

      References

      Etymology 2

      From Old Norse rein f, from Proto-Germanic *rainō, cognate with Norwegian rein, Swedish ren, German Rain (English rean is from Old Norse).

      Noun

      ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rene or rener)

      1. (rare, real estate, agriculture) a strip of unplowed land serving as a boundary between estates
        Synonym: agerren
      Declension
      More information common gender, singular ...
      Derived terms
      • agerren

      References

      Etymology 3

      From Old Norse hreinn (“clean”), from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz, cognate with Norwegian rein, Swedish ren, German rein, Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains).

      Adjective

      ren (neuter rent, plural and definite singular attributive rene)

      1. clean (without dirt)
      2. pure, mere, sheer(without any added elements)
      3. pure (morally)
      Inflection
      More information positive, comparative ...

      1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
      the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
      2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

      Derived terms
      • renavl
      • rendyrke
      • renfærdig
      • rengøre
      • renhed
      • renhjertet
      • renholde
      • renlig
      • renlivet
      • rense
      • renskrive
      • renskuret
      • renskære
      • renvaske

      References

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      Dutch

      Pronunciation

      Etymology 1

      From Middle Dutch rinne, renne.

      Noun

      ren f (plural rennen, diminutive rennetje n)

      1. a run; an enclosed area where small or mid-sized livestock such as poultry are kept
      Derived terms

      Etymology 2

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

      ren

      1. inflection of rennen:
        1. first-person singular present indicative
        2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
        3. imperative

      Galician

      Etymology

      From Old Galician-Portuguese ren, from Latin rēm nātam, accusative singular of rēs nāta, Latin no thing.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈreŋ/ [ˈreŋ]
      • Rhymes: -eŋ
      • Hyphenation: ren

      Pronoun

      ren

      1. (now literary) nothing
        Synonym: nada
        Antonym: todo

      References

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      Gullah

      Etymology

      From English rain.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      ren

      1. rain
        also see: det

      References

      • Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

      Haitian Creole

      Etymology

      From French rein (“kidney”).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      ren

      1. kidney

      Interlingua

      Noun

      ren (plural renes)

      1. kidney

      Japanese

      Romanization

      ren

      1. Rōmaji transcription of れん

      Latin

      Mandarin

      Manx

      Middle English

      Norwegian Bokmål

      Occitan

      Old English

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