rugby
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌɡbi/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: rug‧by
Etymology 1
[edit]From the name of Rugby School in Rugby, in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, where the modern game was developed in the 19th century.[1] The place name Rugby is attested in the Domesday Book as Old English Rocheberie (probably equivalent to rook (“Corvus frugilegus, a bird of the crow family”) + -by (suffix indicating a village or town)), possibly from *Hrōcebyriġ, dative singular of *Hrōceburh, from hrōc (“rook”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to crow”)) + burh, burg (“castle, fort, stronghold; city; town”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“hill, mountain; high, lofty; to rise”)).
Noun
[edit]rugby (countable and uncountable, plural rugbies)
- (usually uncountable, sports)
- A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball; rugby football. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past the opponent's territory or by kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.
- (specifically) The form of the game known as rugby union (see the usage note).
- (countable) Ellipsis of rugby shirt (“a shirt of the kind worn by rugby players, usually short-sleeved and with a buttoned opening at the neck like a polo shirt, but with a stiffer collar”).
- 2003, B. Lawson Thornton, Misery Loves Company: The Diary of Kerri Mitchell, East River Press, →ISBN:
- I don't know why, but for some reason people who work undercover for department store security always wear rugbies and khakis.
- 2007, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: […], Crown, →ISBN, page 69:
- Jansports and cargo pants were everywhere, set off with overstated polos, rugbies, and sweatshirts blaring the logos of hip hop designers.
- 2015, Tony Jackson, From the Streets to the Sheets, Page Publishing, →ISBN:
- I bought three jogging suits, a pair of Polo sneakers, and two rugbies.
Usage notes
[edit]The word rugby when used without any modifying word is commonly used to refer specifically to the game of rugby union – for example, the Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament. Referring to rugby league simply as rugby is less common, except in countries where that is the predominant version of rugby football played.
A major difference between rugby and football (association football or soccer) is that in the latter sport players apart from the goalkeeper are not permitted to handle the ball.
Alternative forms
[edit]- Rugby (archaic)
Hyponyms
[edit]- American rules rugby, Harvard rules football (obsolete) (evolved into American football)
- Canadian rules rugby (obsolete) (evolved into Canadian football)
- rugby league, league
- rugby union, RU, union
- rugby sevens, rugby 7s
- rugby tens, rugby 10s, ten-a-side rugby, 10-a-side rugby, ten-a-side, 10-a-side
- rugby fifteens, rugby 15s
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Afrikaans: rugby
- → Catalan: rugbi
- → Cebuano: rugby
- → Czech: rugby, ragby
- → Danish: rugby
- → Dutch: rugby
- → French: rugby (see there for further descendants)
- → German: Rugby
- → Hindi: रग्बी (ragbī)
- → Irish: rugbaí
- → Italian: rugby
- → Japanese: ラグビー (ragubī)
- → Korean: 럭비 (reokbi)
- → Portuguese: rugby, râguebi, rúgbi
- → Russian: регби (regbi)
- → Serbo-Croatian: rȁgbi, ра̏гби
- → Spanish: rugby
- → Thai: รักบี้ (rák-bîi)
- → Welsh: rygbi
Translations
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Verb
[edit]rugby (third-person singular simple present rugbies, present participle rugbying, simple past and past participle rugbied)
- (intransitive) To play rugby.
Translations
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Genericized trademark from Rugby, a brand of rubber cement by Bostik.
Noun
[edit]rugby (plural rugbys)
- (Philippines) Rubber cement, contact cement; commonly associated with solvent abuse, as it is often used as an inhalant.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “rugby, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2019; “rugby1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]- rugby football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- rugby league on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- rugby union on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- rugby (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English rugby.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]rugby (uncountable)
Cebuano
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Rugby, (a brand of rubber cement by Bostik).
Noun
[edit]rugby
- rubber cement, contact cement
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]rugby
- the sport of rugby
Czech
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English rugby (sport).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rugby n (indeclinable)
- rugby [20th c.]
- 2006, Luboš Jeřábek, transl., Fotbal – velký lexikon[1], Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of Fussball-Lexikon by Bernd Rohr and Günter Simon, →ISBN, page 10:
- Ve škole v Rugby zakládá W. W. Ellis hru rugby (zvanou také rugbyfotbal, na rozdíl od pozdějšího asociačního fotbalu), při které je dovoleno hrát i rukama.
- W. W. Ellis invents a game called rugby (or rugby football, in contrast to later founded association football), in which it is allowed to play with hands, at a school in Rugby.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rugby”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “rugby”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rugby n (uncountable)
- rugby (sport)
Derived terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rugby
Declension
[edit]Inflection of rugby (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | rugby | rugbyt | |
genitive | rugbyn | rugbyjen | |
partitive | rugbya | rugbyja | |
illative | rugbyyn | rugbyihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rugby | rugbyt | |
accusative | nom. | rugby | rugbyt |
gen. | rugbyn | ||
genitive | rugbyn | rugbyjen | |
partitive | rugbya | rugbyja | |
inessive | rugbyssa | rugbyissa | |
elative | rugbysta | rugbyista | |
illative | rugbyyn | rugbyihin | |
adessive | rugbylla | rugbyilla | |
ablative | rugbylta | rugbyilta | |
allative | rugbylle | rugbyille | |
essive | rugbyna | rugbyina | |
translative | rugbyksi | rugbyiksi | |
abessive | rugbytta | rugbyitta | |
instructive | — | rugbyin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Inflection of rugby (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | rugby | rugbyt | |
genitive | rugbyn | rugbyjen | |
partitive | rugbyä | rugbyjä | |
illative | rugbyyn | rugbyihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rugby | rugbyt | |
accusative | nom. | rugby | rugbyt |
gen. | rugbyn | ||
genitive | rugbyn | rugbyjen | |
partitive | rugbyä | rugbyjä | |
inessive | rugbyssä | rugbyissä | |
elative | rugbystä | rugbyistä | |
illative | rugbyyn | rugbyihin | |
adessive | rugbyllä | rugbyillä | |
ablative | rugbyltä | rugbyiltä | |
allative | rugbylle | rugbyille | |
essive | rugbynä | rugbyinä | |
translative | rugbyksi | rugbyiksi | |
abessive | rugbyttä | rugbyittä | |
instructive | — | rugbyin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rugby”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rugby m (uncountable)
- rugby (sport)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Russian: ре́гби (régbi) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
[edit]- “rugby”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English rugby. For the /ɛ/ compare club.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rugby m (invariable)
- rugby (form of football)
References
[edit]- ^ rugby in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- rugby in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English rugby.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rugby n (indeclinable)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- rugby in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- rugby in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English rugby.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]rugby m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “rugby”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English rugby.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈraɡbi/ [ˈraɣ̞.β̞i]
- Rhymes: -aɡbi
- IPA(key): /ˈruɡbi/ [ˈruɣ̞.β̞i]
- Rhymes: -uɡbi
- Syllabification: rug‧by
Noun
[edit]rugby m (plural rugbys)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “rugby”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ker-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰerǵʰ-
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- af:Sports
- af:Rugby
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- Cebuano terms borrowed from English
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- Czech terms borrowed from English
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- cs:Rugby
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- nl:Rugby
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑɡbi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑɡbi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Sports
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- fi:Rugby
- French terms borrowed from English
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- fr:Rugby
- Italian terms borrowed from English
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- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛɡbi
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛɡbi/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/aɡbi
- Rhymes:Italian/aɡbi/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian terms spelled with Y
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Rugby
- Polish terms borrowed from English
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- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/aɡbɘ
- Rhymes:Polish/aɡbɘ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Polish/uɡbɘ
- Rhymes:Polish/uɡbɘ/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish indeclinable nouns
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- pl:Sports
- pl:Rugby
- Polish spelling pronunciations
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- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Portuguese uncountable nouns
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- pt:Rugby
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish unadapted borrowings from English
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- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡbi
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡbi/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/uɡbi
- Rhymes:Spanish/uɡbi/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Rugby
- Spanish spelling pronunciations