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rype

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Danish rype.

Noun

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rype (plural rypes)

  1. A bird, the ptarmigan.
    • 1909, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News, volume 32, page 426:
      The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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rype

  1. Obsolete spelling of ripe.

Anagrams

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Norwegian rype, from Old Norse rjúpa (“ptarmigan”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ryːpə/, [ˈʁyːb̥ə]

Noun

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rype c (singular definite rypen, plural indefinite ryper)

  1. ptarmigan (of the genus Lagopus)

Inflection

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Declension of rype
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rype rypen ryper ryperne
genitive rypes rypens rypers rypernes

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse rjúpa.

Noun

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rype f or m (definite singular rypa or rypen, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

  1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)
  2. (colloquial, slightly vulgar) girl

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse rjúpa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rype f (definite singular rypa, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

  1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)
  2. (colloquial, slightly vulgar) girl

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