rug

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English

Etymology

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.

Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rŭg, IPA^(key): /ɹʌɡ/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Noun

rug (plural rugs)

1. A partial covering for a floor. [1624]
2. (UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. [1591]
   • 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181,

     My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.″

   • 1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books

     She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.
3. (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. [1547]
4. (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze. [1577]
5. (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug. [1627]
6. A cloth covering for a horse. [1790]
7. (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops. [1792]
8. (slang) The female pubic hair. [1893]
9. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
10. (slang) A wig; a hairpiece. [1940]
11. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair. [1954]
12. (US, slang, ethnic slur) Short for rughead.

Usage notes

• (partial floor covering): The terms rug and carpet are not precise synonyms: a rug covers part of the floor; a carpet covers most or a large area of the floor; a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

Synonyms

• (small carpet): carpet, mat
• (wig): toupee, wig

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)

1. (transitive) To cover with a rug.
2. (Scotland, archaic) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

Derived terms

• rug up

Further reading

• “rug”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “rug”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rug”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• GRU, GUR

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rœχ/

Noun

rug (plural rûe or rûens, diminutive ruggie)

1. (plural chiefly rûe) back (rear of the body)
2. (plural chiefly rûens) hill; ridge

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin rubus. Compare Romanian rug.

Alternative forms

• rugu, arug, arugu

Noun

rug m (plural rudz)

1. wild rose, raspberry bush, bramble bush

Synonyms

• pilivuri, zigrã, mãcesh, bubzel

Etymology 2

Probably a semi-learned term or borrowing from Latin rogus, as with its Romanian cognate rug (or modeled after it). Less likely inherited.

Noun

rug m (plural rudz)

1. funeral pyre

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish rugh, from Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun

rug c (singular definite rugen, not used in plural form)

1. rye (Secale cereale)

Verb

rug

1. imperative of ruge

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rugge, from Old Dutch ruggi, from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʏx/
• Hyphenation: rug
• Rhymes: -ʏx

Noun

rug m (plural ruggen, diminutive ruggetje n or rugje n)

1. back, backside
2. (geology) ridge
3. (Netherlands, historical) Short for rooie rug; a thousand-guilders banknote

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rug
• Jersey Dutch: rœx
• Negerhollands: rugge, rigi, rege

Elfdalian

Noun

rug m

1. rye (Secale cereale)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Faroese

Noun

rug

1. accusative singular indefinite of rugur

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ·ruc, prototonic form of ro·ucc, perfect tense of beirid.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɾˠʌɡ/

Verb

rug

1. analytic past indicative of beir

References

Manx

Etymology

From ro·uccai, suppletive augmented form of beirid. Compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic rugadh.

Verb

rug (verbal noun ruggal, past participle ruggit)

1. to bear (give birth to)

Synonyms

• behr
• ymmyrk

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun

rug m (definite singular rugen)

1. rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)

Derived terms

• rugbrød

References

• “rug” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Cognate with Faroese rugur, Icelandic rúgur, Swedish råg, Danish rug, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, and English rye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʊː(ɡ)/, /rʉː(ɡ)/
• (North Gudbrand Valley) IPA^(key): [ruɡ]
• Hyphenation: rùg

Noun

rug m (definite singular rugen)

1. rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)

Derived terms

• rugbrød

References

• “rug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Adjective

rūg

1. Alternative form of rūh

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruk/
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: rug
• Homophones: róg, Róg, Rug

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin rūga.

Noun

rug m inan

1. (obsolete) crease, notch, wrinkle

   Synonyms: bruzda, fałda, karb, zmarszczka

Declension

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Polish rug.

Noun

rug m inan (related adjective rugowy)

1. (in the plural, historical) mass expulsions of foreign subjects

   Synonyms: ekspulsja, wydalanie

2. (in the plural, historical) verifying the validity of parliamentary elections

   Hypernym: sprawdzanie

3. (chiefly in the plural, historical) judicial inquiry, investigation

   Synonyms: dochodzenie, śledztwo

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

rug f

1. genitive plural of ruga

Further reading

• rug in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• rug in PWN's encyclopedia
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “rug”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

Romagnol

Pronunciation

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈɾuːɡ]

Noun

rug m pl

1. plural of rôg

References

Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 514

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin rogus, probably borrowed in the 19th century or semi-learned. The linguists Candrea and Tiktin believed it to be inherited.

Noun

rug n (plural ruguri)

1. pyre

Declension

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin rubus (“bramble, briar”), from Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”). Compare Italian rovo, dialectal rogo. For the sound shift of Latin -b- to -g- in Romanian, compare neg, negură.

Noun

rug m (plural rugi)

1. bramble
2. dog rose
3. blackberry

Declension

Synonyms

• măceș

Derived terms

• ruget

References

• rug in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rˠuk/

Verb

rug

1. past of beir