röd

See also: rod, roed, Rod, ród, rød, and röð

Swedish

Röda körsbär (Red cherries)

Etymology

From Old Swedish rø̄þer, from Old Norse rauðr, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós < *h₁rewdʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /røːd/
• IPA^(key): /røː/ (colloquial)

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• Rhymes: -øːd, -øː

Adjective

röd (comparative rödare, superlative rödast)

1. red

   ett rött skärp ― a red belt

2. (politics) of or pertaining to leftist (communist, socialist) politics and politicians

Declension

Inflection of röd
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	röd	rödare	rödast
Neuter singular	rött	rödare	rödast
Plural	röda	rödare	rödast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	röde	rödare	rödaste
All	röda	rödare	rödaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Derived terms

• blodröd
• karmosinröd
• rödfotad
• rödhuvad
• röding
• rödkål
• rödräv

• rödstjärtad
• rödvin
• rödögd
• rött
• scharlakansröd
• tegelröd

See also

Colors in Swedish · färger (layout · text)
vit	grå	svart
röd; karmosin, karmosinröd	orange; brun	gul; beige
limegrön	grön
cyan (rare) turkos (common); teal	azur	blå
rosa (common), skär (uncommon); indigo	magenta; purpur (rare), lila (common)	hudfärg

References

• röd in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• dör