Ren

Ren

1. (informal, in combination) Clipping of Renaissance.

• Only used in certain compounds in the context of Renaissance fairs.

• ner, NER, NRE, ern, -ern, RNE, ENR, -ner-, Ern

First attested as Ren in the 16th century. Potentially derived from Middle Dutch renne (“coop”).

• IPA^(key): /rɛn/

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• Hyphenation: Ren
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Homophone: ren

Ren n

1. A hamlet in Gemert-Bakel, North Brabant, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From Early Modern German reen, ultimately from Old Norse hreinn (compare Swedish ren, Danish ren, Norwegian Nynorsk rein), from Proto-Germanic *hrainaz, most likely from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“head, top; horn”) as in “horned animal”, thus distantly related to Hirsch, Hornisse, Rind as well as Hirn, Horn. The compound Rentier (corresponding to English reindeer) is more commonly used.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ʁeːn/, (rare) /ʁɛn/

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• Rhymes: -eːn, -ɛn

Ren n (strong, genitive Rens or Renes, plural Rene or Rens)

1. reindeer

   Synonym: Rentier

Borrowed from Latin rēn.

• IPA^(key): /ʁeːn/

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• Rhymes: -eːn

Ren m (strong, genitive Rens, plural Renes)

1. (medicine, technical) kidney

   Synonym: (normal register) Niere

• “Ren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Ren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Ren” in Duden online
• Ren on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Ren

1. Rōmaji transcription of れん

Ren m

1. Rhine (a river in Europe)

• Bas Ren
• Naut Ren

Borrowed from German Rhein, from Middle High German, from Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz, from Gaulish Rēnos, from a Pre-Celtic or Proto-Celtic *Reinos; one of a class of river names built from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to move, flow, run”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: Ren
• Homophone: ren

Ren m inan

1. Rhine (a river in Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, France, Germany, and the Netherlands)

• Ren in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Ren in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Ren

1. Rhine (European river)

• Ren geyiği