Norwegian–English dictionary

rive

(transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.

rive til seg

(transitive, uncommon) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right. [from 1530s]

ro

(transitive, or, intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

ro i sinnet

The absence of mental turmoil or anxiety.

Roar

(rare, _, compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.

robåt

(US) A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing).

Robert

(rare, _, compared to given name) A French surname originating as a patronymic.

roe

Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

roe seg

(intransitive) To become calm.

Roger

(rare, _, compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.

rogn

Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.

rojalist

A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.

rolig

(of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.

rolle

Position or role (especially in a play).

rom

A room or set of rooms, particularly:

Roma

A major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.

Romafolket

A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.

rōmaji

A representation of Japanese in Latin script.

roman

A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. [from 17th c.]

romanforfatter

An author of novels.

Romania

A country in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.

Romanifolk

A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.

Romarbrevet

(biblical) The sixth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Christians in Rome.

rombe

(geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. [from 16th c.]

Romeo

(fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.

romer

A native or resident of Rome.

Romerne

(biblical) The sixth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Christians in Rome.

romkamerat

A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.

rommelig

Having plenty of space; roomy; capacious.

rompe

(childish, or, vulgar, slang, North American) Buttocks.

romslig

Having plenty of space; roomy; capacious.

Ronald

A en given name.

rop

A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.

rope

(transitive) To convey by shouting.

rope hurra

To shout an expression of excitement.

ror

(nautical) An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot).

rosa

Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

rose

To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.

rosmarin

A shrub, Salvia rosmarinus (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis), that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfumes.

rote

(ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.

rotete

(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.

rotte

(zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.

rovdyr

Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other non-plant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.

Roxana

The wife of Alexander the Great.

rød

(countable, and, uncountable) The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.

rødme

(intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.

rødstrupe

A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.

rør

(countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.

røre

a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation

røske

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

røsslyng

A plant in the family Ericaceae.

røst

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character

røyk

(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

røyker

A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

røykeri

(informal, dated) An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.

røys

A high hill or other easily distinguishable object near the shore which can serve as guidance for seafarers.

rubin

(uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

rug

The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]

ruge

(transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

rullesteinsås

A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.

rumba

A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time.

rumensk

Of or relating to Romania, the Romanian people, or the Romanian language.

rumle

(intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

rumling

A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

rumpe

The buttocks.

rumpeldunk

A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.

rumpus

(informal, intransitive) To cause a noisy disturbance or commotion.

rundt

In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around. [from before 1150]

runn

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

russer

(uncountable) The Russian language.

russisk

(uncountable) The Russian language.

Russland

A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991.

ruste

(transitive) To cause to oxidize.

rustkammer

A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.

rute

The itinerary of a race.

rutete

Divided into a grid of squares of alternating colours or shades, or into light and dark patches.

rutil

(mineral) The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO2.

Rwanda

A country in East Africa.

rydde opp

(ergative, of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.

rygg

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

rygge

Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction. [from 19th c.]

ryggsekk

A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.

ryggvirvel

(skeleton) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.

rykk

A sudden involuntary movement.

rykke frem

To go to war; to make military advances.

rykke opp med roten

(transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.

rykte

What somebody or something is known for.

rynke

A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.

rynker

(transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.

rype

(colloquial) An attractive, young woman.

ryste

To disturb; to bother or unsettle.

rytter

One who rides a horse.

så

(exclamative) Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.

så snart

As soon as; when; after.

så snart som mulig

As soon as is possible; at one's earliest convenience; at the earliest possible time.

sabotasje

A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

sabotere

To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

Sachsen

A state of modern Germany, located in the east, far from historical Saxon lands. Official name: Free State of Saxony.

safe

A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.

safir

(countable, and, uncountable) A deep blue colour.

safirblå

of a deep blue colour.

saftis

(chiefly, _, US, Canada) Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving.

sag

A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

sagbruk

A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber, or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.

Sakarja

A en given name, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.

sake

(alcohol) Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.

saker

(informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

saks

(countable, usually, construed as plural) A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.

saksedyr

Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.

saksofon

A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

saksøke

(transitive, criminal law, police) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

sakte

(manner) At a slow pace.

salat

A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.

såld

A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

såle

(footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.

salg

An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

salgjord

A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.

salingshorn

(nautical) A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.

Salomo

(Biblical character) In the Old Testament and Qur'an, a king of Israel famous for his wisdom; father of King Rehoboam and the son of King David.

Salomos Ordtøke

A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.

salt

Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.

salte

(mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.

sam-

Together: the root word is done co-incidently.

samarbeid

(uncountable) The act of collaborating.

samarbeide

To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

samarbeide (med fienden)

To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

samle

To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.

samle seg

(intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.

samlet

Into one place; into a single thing; combined.

samling

A large collection.

samma det!

(colloquial) A holophrastic expression used to dismiss something that the speaker doesn't care about, doesn't think important, or doesn't want to consider or discuss any further. Sometimes conceived as an ellipsis of whatever you say, implying feigned deference: whatever you say [apparently must be true].

samme

The same; identical.

sammen

Into one place; into a single thing; combined.

sammenkomst

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

sammenleggbar

Designed to be collapsed, especially so as to be more compact when not in use.

sammenlignbar

(often with to) Able to be compared (to).

sammenligne

(transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.

sammenpresse

To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.

sammensetning

The general makeup of a thing or person. [from 14th c.]

sammenskriving

(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.

sammensmelting

(physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.

sammensurium

A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.

sammentrekke

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

sammentrekning

(biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

sammentrykke

(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.

samnamn

A noun that denotes any member, or all members, of a class; an ordinary noun such as dog or city; contrasted with a proper noun, which refers to a single named entity, such as Socrates or Tokyo.

Samoa

A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Samoa. Capital and largest city: Apia. Formerly Western Samoa, and, before that, German Samoa. It is distinct from American Samoa.

samovar

A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.

Samson

(biblical character) An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress.

samstemmighet

The act of conforming; conformity.