Ruhe

See also: ruhe, rúhé, and rǔhé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ruhe.

Proper noun

Ruhe (plural Ruhes)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ruhe is the 26853^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 905 individuals. Ruhe is most common among White (93.26%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ruhe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Rhue, Uher, erhu, huer

German

Alternative forms

• Ruh (now poetic or colloquial)
• Ruge (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German ruo, ruowe, from Old High German ruowa (“peace, quiet, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *rōu (“calm, rest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁuːə/

• Audio:

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• die Ruhe (Austria):

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Noun

Ruhe f (genitive Ruhe, no plural)

1. calm, relative quietness (absence of loud sounds)
2. calmness, serenity
3. rest, repose
   • 1718, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, “Bist du bei mir”, in Diomedes:

     Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh.

     If you are with me, then I will go gladly unto [my] death and to my rest.

   • 1844, Felix Mendelssohn, Hör' mein Bitten (with literal translation):

     O könnt' ich fliegen wie Tauben dahin,
     weit hinweg vor dem Feinde zu fliehn!
     In die Wüste eilt' ich dann fort,
     fände Ruhe am schattigen Ort.

     Oh, if I could fly off like the doves,
     flee far away from the foe!
     Into the wilderness I would then hasten,
     and find repose in a shadowy place.

Declension

Declension of Ruhe [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Ruhe
genitive	einer	der	Ruhe
dative	einer	der	Ruhe
accusative	eine	die	Ruhe

Derived terms

• die Ruhe selbst sein
• die Ruhe weghaben
• ruhig
• Nachtruhe
• Ruhestörung
• Ruhe vor dem Sturm
• Ruhestand
• in Ruhe lassen (“to leave alone”)

Related terms

• ruhen
• Ruhensburg

See also

• Stille

Further reading

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