roi

From Proto-Bahnaric *rɔːj, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruj ~ *ruuj ~ *ruəj ~ *ruhaj (“fly (insect)”).

• IPA^(key): /rɔːj/

roi

1. fly

From Late Latin rex.

roi m (plural rois, feminine roine)

1. king

• roy (obsolete, pre-1800)
• roé (Quebec, eye dialect)

Inherited from Middle French roy, from Old French roi, rei, from Latin rēgem.

• IPA^(key): /ʁwa/, /χwa/

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• Homophones: Roy, rois, roua, rouas, rouât
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: roi

roi m (plural rois, feminine reine)

1. king

   Le roi est mort.

   The king is dead.

2. (chess) king
3. (card games) king

• Antillean Creole: wa
• Guianese Creole: rwè
• Haitian Creole: wa
  • (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
    • → English: loa
• Karipúna Creole French: hué
• Louisiana Creole: rwa
• Seychellois Creole: lerwa
• → Turkish: rua

• “roi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Dutch rooi (“line”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈroi̯/ [ˈroi̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Syllabification: roi

roi

1. (architecture, construction) building alignment

• “roi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• rex (9th century)
• rei
• rai (Le Roman de Tristan, Thomas d'Angleterre)
• roy

From Latin rēgem.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈrei̯/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroi̯/, (northern) /ˈrei̯/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈro̯ɛ/, (northern) /ˈrɛ/

roi oblique singular, m (oblique plural rois, nominative singular rois, nominative plural roi)

1. king
2. (chess) king

• roial
• reaume

• rooi (alternative spelling)

From Spanish arroyo.

roi

A dry creek, that fills with water after rainfall.

1. creek
2. gulch

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɔi
• Syllabification: ro‧i

roi

1. third-person singular present of roić

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic рои (roi), from Proto-Slavic *rojь. Compare Czech roj, Slovak roj and Serbo-Croatian roj.

• Rhymes: -oj

roi n (plural roiuri)

1. swarm

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐɔj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹɔj˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *p-rɔːj. Cognate with Chut [Rục] brɔːj¹, Kha Phong urɔːj.

(classifier cây, cái) roi • (鞕, 𩍢)

1. whip, rod
2. (zoology) flagellum

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(classifier cây, trái, quả) roi

1. (Northern Vietnam) wax apple (Syzygium samarangense)

   Synonym: mận

• IPA^(key): /rɔi̯/

roi

1. soft mutation of rhoi