rima

Borrowing from Latin rīma (“a cleft, crack, fissure, chink”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪ.mə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪmə

rima (plural rimae)

1. (anatomy) A cleft or gap between two symmetrical parts, particularly between the vocal folds.

   Hyponyms: rima glottidis, rima vestibuli

2. (astronomy) A crack or fissure on a lunar or planetary surface; a rille.
   • 2006, Tammy Plotner, Jeff Barbour, What's Up 2006: 365 Days of Skywatching, page 128:

     Look for three prominent interior craters, as well as an ancient rima falling near the shadow's edge.

• raim, rami, AMIR, Mari, Amir, Mira, amir, Irma, mair, Rami, RAIM, Mair

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈri.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈri.ma]

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• Hyphenation: ri‧ma
• Rhymes: -ima

“Feminization” of rim m, from Latin rhythmus.

rima f (plural rimes)

1. rhyme

• (non-onset portion of a syllable): coda, nucli

• (non-onset portion of a syllable): síl·laba

• rimar

Uncertain. Related to arrimar.

rima f (plural rimes)

1. stack, heap

   Synonym: pila

• rimer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rima

1. inflection of rimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “rima”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?] (compare Old Norse rim (“slat”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrimɑ/, [ˈrimɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -imɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ri‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): ri‧ma

rima

1. lath (thin grade of lumber)
2. (sports) bar (the beam to be cleared in the high jump and pole vault)
3. (figurative) bar (from sports use)

   laskea rimaa ― to lower the bar

   rimaa hipoen ― barely, only just

• “rima”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• Armi, Irma, Mari, Mira, Rami, armi, mari, rami

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.ma/

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rima

1. third-person singular past historic of rimer

• mari, mira, rami

• IPA^(key): /ˈrima̝/

Obscure. Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *rīmā (“number”) or from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“number, calculation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to regulate, count”).^[1]

rima f (plural rimas)

1. an ordered pile; in particular a stack of firewood

• rimeiro

• agarimar
• arrimar

Documented since the 13th century; probably from Old Occitan or from Old French. See proposed etymologies under rhyme.

rima f (plural rimas)

1. rhyme

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “rima”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rima”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rima”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): [ˈrimɒ]
• Hyphenation: ri‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

rima (plural rimák)

1. (literary, offensive) harlot

   See synonyms at kurva.

• rima in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.ma/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Hyphenation: rì‧ma

Borrowed from Old French rime, from a Germanic word cognate with Old English rīm (“counting”).

rima f (plural rime)

1. rhyme
2. (in the plural) verses
3. (anatomy) rima

• rimare

rima

1. inflection of rimare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Mira, armi, mari, mira, rami

rima

1. (Banawá) often

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Kanakanabu cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : rima

From Proto-Austronesian *lima.

rima

1. five

From Proto-Indo-European *(H)reyH-meh₂, from *(H)reyH- (“to tear, cut”). Akin to Latvian riêva (“furrow, fold, cleft”) and Lithuanian rievà (“hill, chasm”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.ma]

rīma f (genitive rīmae); first declension

1. a cleft, crack, fissure, chink
2. (vulgar) the vulva, female genitalia

First-declension noun.

• rīmor, rīmō (verb)
• rīmōsus (adjective)
• rīmula (diminutive)

• rīmābundus
• rīmātim
• rīmātor

• → English: rima, ⇒ rima glottidis

• “rima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rima", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “rima”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the house walls are beginning to crack: domus rimas agit
    

• mari

Māori cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : rima

From Proto-Polynesian *lima (compare with Hawaiian lima), from Proto-Oceanic *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima (compare with Malay lima), from Proto-Austronesian *lima (“five, hand”). Doublet of ringa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrima/ [ˈɾimɐ]

rima

1. five

• rimene

rima n pl

1. definite plural of rim

rima n

1. definite plural of rim

• reoma

From Proto-West Germanic *rimō, from Proto-Germanic *rimô, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Middle Low German remme, Old West Norse rimi (Norwegian rime), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.mɑ/

rima m (nominative plural riman)

1. edge; rim; border
2. bank (of a river, stream, etc.)
3. coast

Weak:

• Middle English: rime, rym, rim
  • English: rim

From Old French rime. Doublet of rim m.

rima f (oblique plural rimas, nominative singular rima, nominative plural rimas)

1. rhyme; verse (poetry)

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• Hyphenation: ri‧ma

Borrowed from French rime, from Old French rime; or from Medieval Latin rhythmus.^[1]

rima f (plural rimas)

1. rhyme

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rima

1. inflection of rimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “rima”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾi.ma/
• Hyphenation: ri‧ma

Rapa Nui cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : rima     Compound form : pae

From Proto-Polynesian *lima. Cognates include Hawaiian lima and Māori rima.

rima

1. five

   Synonym: pae

From Proto-Polynesian *lima. Cognates include Hawaiian lima and Māori rima.

rima

1. hand, arm

• Veronica Du Feu (1996), Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, pages 51, 79
• Paulus Kieviet (2017), A grammar of Rapa Nui‎^[3], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 147

Rarotongan cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : rima

From Proto-Polynesian *rima, from Proto-Oceanic *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

rima

1. five

Borrowed from French rimer.

a rima (third-person singular present rimează, past participle rimat) 1st conjugation

1. (intransitive) to rhyme (of two words, whose final syllables are the same)

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀ma.

-rima (infinitive kurima, perfective -rimye)

1. cultivate

   Synonym: -hinga

• irima (“farming season”) (Rundi)
• umurima (“garden”)
• umurimo (“job”)
• umurimyi (“farmer”) (Rundi)

From Italian rima.

• IPA^(key): /rǐːma/
• Hyphenation: ri‧ma

ríma f (Cyrillic spelling ри́ма)

1. rhyme

   Synonym: srok

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀ma.

-rima (infinitive kurima)

1. cultivate

• murimi

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

rima

1. five

• IPA^(key): /rìːma/, /ríːma/

rīma f

1. rhyme (word that rhymes with another)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	ríma
gen. sing.	ríme
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ríma	rími	ríme
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ríme	rím	rím
dative (dajȃlnik)	rími	rímama	rímam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	rímo	rími	ríme
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	rími	rímah	rímah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	rímo	rímama	rímami

• “rima”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈrima/ [ˈri.ma]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ri‧ma

From Old Occitan rima (“verse”).

rima f (plural rimas)

1. rhyme
2. consonance

   rima imperfecta ― assonance

   media rima ― assonance

3. (in the plural) poems, poetry
4. heap, pile

rima

1. inflection of rimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “rima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Proto-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Oceanic *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

Sense of numeral is semantic extension (see with Maori above), attested during James Cook's two voyages (Illemei by Parkinson 1769, E'Reema by Anderson 1773). Displaced by pae following enacted tapu during Pōmare I's reign.^[1]

rima

1. (anatomy) hand (part of the body)

rima

1. (archaic) five

Taroko cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : rima

From Proto-Atayalic *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

rima

1. five

Thao cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : rima

From Proto-Austronesian *lima.

rima

1. five

• tarima

rima

1. (anatomy) hand

From Middle High German rieme, from Old High German riomo, from Proto-West Germanic *reumō.

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rīma m (plural rima)

1. belt (band worn around the waist)
2. strap