From en.wiktionary.org:
[Ruin]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
2. * {{ RQ:Addison Italy
|passage=The Veian and the Gabian towirs shall fall, / And one promiscuous
RUIN cover all; / Nor, after length of years, a stone betray / The place where
once the very RUINS lay.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [chapter=Foreword]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
6. [en] Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
7. * [chapter=Of Youth and Age]
8. * [I]
9. The act of ruining something.
10. [en] A fall or tumble .
11. * [year=1843]
12. A change that destroy s or defeat s something; destruction ; overthrow .
13. * [i]
14. * [en]
15. [en] Complete financial loss; bankruptcy .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[remains of destroyed construction]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa] , [pa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
[trans-bottom]
[the state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] , [az] , [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[something which leads to serious troubles]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[past2=ruint]
1. [en] To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
2. * [text=In one way, indeed, he bade fair to RUIN us; for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted...]
3. To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1857 | author=w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | title= Basa Sunda: Birds of Passage (Collection)/The Golden Mile-Stone
|passage=By the fireside there are old men seated, / Seeing RUINED cities in
the ashes.}}
1. To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
2. To make something less enjoyable or likeable .
3. To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil .
4. [en] To fall into a state of decay .
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1636 | author=w:George Sandys | title=Paraphrase upon the Psalmes and upon the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
|passage=Though he his house of polisht marble build, / Yet shall it RUINE
like the Moth's fraile cell}}
1. [en] To seduce or debauch , and thus harm the social standing of.
**** Synonyms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- _See also_ Thesaurus:spoil
**** Antonyms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[to ruin]
[to cause the economical ruin of]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] [financially]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[to destroy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to spoil]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek:
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- North Frisian: [Mooring] [frr]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Asturian
*** Pronunciation
- [ast-IPA]
*** Adjective
[ruin]
1. weedy
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl]. Cognate with [gml], [gmh]. Further origin unknown; possibly from
[nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. gelding [castrated male horse]
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
*** See also
- [nl]
[nl]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
From [nb].
*** Noun
[nb-noun-m1]
1. [en] [often in plural form when referring to buildings]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
From [nn].
*** Noun
[nn-noun-m1]
1. [en] [often in plural form when referring to buildings]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
From an earlier [es], from [es], or from a [es] root [la], ultimately from
[es]. Compare [pt], [ca]. The lack of a final /-o/ may suggest a borrowing.
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Adjective
[pl=ruines]
1. contemptible , mean , heartless
2. mean , stingy
3. wild ; unruly
4. rachitic
5. * [es]
**** Derived terms
{{col|es |ruin señor cría ruin servidor }}
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]
** Swedish
*** Noun
[c]
1. a [en] (remains of a building)
2. [en] (financial bankruptcy)
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|sv |borgruin |klosterruin |kyrkoruin |ruinfält |ruinhög |ruinspel
|ruinstad |slottsruin |stå på ruinens brant<t:stand on the brink of ruin> }}
**** Related terms
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]
- [svetym]
*** Anagrams
- [sv]
[sv]
** Tetum
*** Etymology
From [tet], akin to [agn] and [ms].
*** Noun
[tet]
1. bone