rugby

See also: Rugby

Contents

EnglishEdit

rugby

Alternative formsEdit

• Rugby

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌɡbi/

• Audio (US)

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Etymology 1Edit

1823: Named after Rugby School in Warwickshire, where William Webb Ellis "with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game". The place name Rugby is attested in the Domesday Book as Rocheberie, possibly equivalent to rook +‎ -by.

NounEdit

rugby (countable and uncountable, plural rugbies)

1. (usually uncountable) A sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.

   The scrum is a distinctive element of rugby.

   The two rugbies split following a debate about amateurism.

2. (countable) A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players.
   • 2003, B. Lawson Thornton, Misery Loves Company: The Diary of Kerri Mitchell, East River Press →ISBN

     I don't know why, but for some reason people who work undercover for department store security always wear rugbies and khakis.

   • 2007, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: A Novel, Crown →ISBN, page 69

     Jansports and cargo pants were everywhere, set off with overstated polos, rugbies, and sweatshirts blaring the logos of hip hop designers.

   • 2015, Tony Jackson, FROM THE STREETS TO THE SHEETS, Page Publishing Inc →ISBN

     I bought three jogging suits, a pair of Polo sneakers, and two rugbies.

Usage notesEdit

Rugby is commonly used to refer specifically to the game of rugby union – for example, the Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament. Referring to rugby league simply as rugby is less common outside the sport's strongholds.

SynonymsEdit

• rugby football, rugger

HyponymsEdit

• rugby league, league
• rugby union, RU, union
• rugby sevens, rugby 7s
• rugby tens, rugby 10s, ten-a-side rugby, 10-a-side rugby, ten-a-side, 10-a-side
• rugby fifteens, rugby 15s
• (obsolete) Canadian rules rugby (now evolved into Canadian football)
• (obsolete) American rules ruby / Harvard rules football (now evolved into American football)

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from rugby

• chesterfield rugby
• quad rugby
• rugby ball
• rugby football

• rugby footballer
• rugby league
• rugby player
• rugby sevens

• rugby union
• rugger
• wheelchair rugby

TranslationsEdit

a sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball

• Afrikaans: rugby
• Arabic: رَجْبِي‎‎ m (ragbī), رَجْبِي‎‎ m (rajbī), رَكْبِي‎‎ m (rakbī), رَغْبِي‎‎ m (raḡbī)
• Armenian: ռեգբի (hy) (ṙegbi)
• Asturian: rugbi m
• Azerbaijani: reqbi
• Basque: errugbi
• Belarusian: рэ́гбі n (réhbi)
• Bulgarian: ръ́гби m (rǎ́gbi)
• Catalan: rugbi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橄欖球 (zh), 橄榄球 (zh) (gǎnlǎnqiú)

• Czech: ragby n, rugby n
• Dutch: rugby (nl) n
• Esperanto: rugbeo (eo)
• Estonian: ragbi
• Finnish: rugby (fi)
• French: rugby (fr) m
• Galician: rugby m
• Georgian: რაგბი (ragbi)
• German: Rugby (de) n
• Greek: ράγκμπι (el) (rágkmpi)
• Hindi: रग्बी (ragbī)
• Hungarian: rögbi (hu)
• Ido: rugbio
• Irish: rugbaí m
• Japanese: ラグビー (ja) (ragubī)

• Korean: 럭비 (ko) (reogbi)
• Latvian: regbijs m
• Lithuanian: regbis m
• Macedonian: рагби n (ragbi)
• Manx: ruggyr m
• Maori: whutupaoro, rakapi
• Persian: راگبی‎‎ (fa) (râgbi)
• Portuguese: rugby (pt) m, râguebi (pt) m (used only in Portugal), rúgbi (pt) m (used only in Brazil)
• Romanian: rugbi (ro) n, rugby (ro) n
• Russian: ре́гби (ru) n (rɛ́gbi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рагби m

  Roman: ragbi (sh) m, rugby m

• Slovak: ragby n
• Slovene: ragbi m
• Sotho: rakebi
• Spanish: rugby (es) m, rugbi (es) m
• Swahili: raga (sw)
• Tamil: ரக்பி (rakpi)
• Thai: รักบี้ (rák-bîi)
• Tongan: aka pulu
• Turkish: ragbi (tr)
• Ukrainian: ре́гбі n (réhbi)
• Urdu: رگبی‎‎ (ragbī)
• Vietnamese: bóng bầu dục
• Welsh: rygbi m

See alsoEdit

• rugby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowing from Cebuano rugby, from English Rugby, a brand of rubber cement by Bostik.

NounEdit

rugby (plural rugbys)

1. (Philippines) Rubber cement, contact cement.

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AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English rugby.

NounEdit

rugby (uncountable)

1. (sports) rugby

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CebuanoEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Rugby, (a brand of rubber cement by Bostik).

NounEdit

rugby

1. rubber cement, contact cement

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English rugby.

NounEdit

rugby

1. the sport of rugby

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CzechEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• ragby

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English rugby (sport).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈraɡbɪ/

• Audio (Czech Republic)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: rug‧by

NounEdit

rugby n (indeclinable)

1. rugby [20th c.]
   • 2006, Luboš Jeřábek (transl.), Fotbal – velký lexikon‎^[1], Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of Fussball-Lexikon by Bernd Rohr and Günter Simon, →ISBN, page 10:

     Ve škole v Rugby zakládá W. W. Ellis hru rugby (zvanou také rugbyfotbal, na rozdíl od pozdějšího asociačního fotbalu), při které je dovoleno hrát i rukama.

     W. W. Ellis invents a game called rugby (or rugby football, in contrast to later founded association football), in which it is allowed to play with hands, at a school in Rugby.

Derived termsEdit

• rugbista
• rugbyový

Further readingEdit

• rugby in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• rugby in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English rugby.

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: rug‧by

NounEdit

rugby n (uncountable)

1. rugby (sport)

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English rugby.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ʁyɡ.bi/, /ʁyd.bi/

NounEdit

rugby m (uncountable)

1. rugby (sport)

Derived termsEdit

• rugby à quinze
• rugby à treize
• rugbyman
• rugbywoman

Further readingEdit

• “rugby” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English rugby.

NounEdit

rugby m (invariable)

1. rugby (form of football)

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PortugueseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• râguebi (Portugal)
• rúgbi (Brazil)

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English rugby.

PronunciationEdit

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐɡ.bi/

NounEdit

rugby m (uncountable)

1. rugby

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English rugby.

NounEdit

rugby m (plural rugbys)

1. rugby