Ruby

See also: ruby

English

Etymology

The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːbi

Proper noun

Ruby

1. A female given name from English.
   • 1992, Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76:

     And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.

2. (rare) A surname.
3. (rare) A male given name.
4. (computer languages) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
5. A city in Alaska.
6. A ghost town in Arizona
7. A town in South Carolina.
8. A town in Wisconsin.
9. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.

Translations

the female given name

• Esperanto: Rubi
• Hindi: रूबी (rūbī)
• Maori: Rupi
• Marathi: रूबी f (rūbī)
• Persian: روبی (fa) (rubi)
• Russian: Руби (ru) f (Rubi)
• Urdu: روبی (rūbī)

the programming language

• Marathi: रूबी f (rūbī)
• Persian: روبی (fa) (rubi)

See also

• Ruby programming language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

Ruby

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A curry; Short for Ruby Murray.

   We're going down the Indian for a Ruby; wanna join us?

Anagrams

• -bury, Bury, bury

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Ruby.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈɾubi/ [ˈɾuː.bɪ]
    • Rhymes: -ubi
  • IPA^(key): /ɾuˈbi/ [ɾʊˈbi]
    • Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: Ru‧by

Proper noun

Ruby or Rubý (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜒ)

1. a female given name from English