Dictionaries › German

Rippe

Pronunciation: /ˈʁɪ.pə/

“Rippe” is a German word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. rib
  2. a piece of a row of chocolate

Etymology

From Middle High German rippe (also ruppe, ribbe, ribe, riebe), from Old High German rippa, ribba, (also rippi, ribbi), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”). Cognate with English rib, Dutch rib (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “Rippe” there

More German words

About this dictionary

The German dictionary on Glottosphere has 83,586 entries with a page. Browse the German dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.