rend

See also: Rend

English

Etymology

From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut down”), from Proto-West Germanic *(h)randijan (“to tear”), of uncertain origin. Believed by some to be the causative of Proto-Germanic *hrindaną (“to push”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱret-, *kret- (“to hit, beat”), which would make it related to Old English hrindan (“to thrust, push”). Cognate with Scots rent (“to rend, tear”), Old Frisian renda (“to tear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

rend (third-person singular simple present rends, present participle rending, simple past and past participle rent or rended)

1. (transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst

   Powder rends a rock in blasting.

   Lightning rends an oak.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.

2. (transitive, figurative) To violently disturb the peace of; to throw into chaos.
   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock: Bantam Books, page 317:

     We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.

3. (transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 2:12:

     And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 51, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 260:

     For a time, there reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the monster might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest and most savage seas.

4. (intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

   Relationships may rend if tempers flare.

Derived terms

• berend
• rap and rend
• torend
• rend one's garments

Translations

to separate into parts with force

• Bulgarian: скъсвам (bg) (skǎsvam), съдирам (bg) (sǎdiram)
• Catalan: esquinçar (ca), esgarrar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎦᏣᎦᎵᎭ (gatsagaliha)
• Czech: rozervat pf, rvát (cs) impf, roztrhnout (cs) pf, trhat (cs) impf
• Esperanto: disŝiri (eo)
• Finnish: särkeä (fi), pirstoa (fi); halkaista (fi)
• French: rompre (fr), déchirer (fr)
• Galician: rasgar
• German: zerreißen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (disskreitan), 𐍄𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (tahjan)
• Greek:

  Ancient: σπαράσσω (sparássō)

• Hungarian: hasít (hu), széthasít (hu), felhasít (hu), repeszt (hu), elrepeszt (hu), szétrepeszt (hu), megrepeszt (hu), kettérepeszt, kettéhasít (hu)
• Irish: rois
• Italian: spaccare (it)
• Latin: lacerō, laniō
• Old English: rēofan, rendan, teran
• Ottoman Turkish: یارمق (yarmak)
• Portuguese: rasgar (pt)
• Romanian: sfâșia (ro), rupe (ro)
• Russian: раздира́ть (ru) n (razdirátʹ), разрыва́ть (ru) n (razryvátʹ)
• Sanskrit: दृणाति (sa) (dṛṇāti)
• Spanish: rasgar (es), destrozar (es), desgajar (es), romper (es)
• Tok Pisin: brukim

to part or tear off forcibly

• Bulgarian: разделям (bg) (razdeljam)
• Czech: odervat pf
• Finnish: repäistä (fi), riuhtaista, repiä (fi)
• Hungarian: szakít (hu), elszakít (hu), leszakít (hu), szétszakít (hu), tép (hu), letép (hu), széttép (hu), szaggat (hu), leszaggat (hu), megszaggat (hu), szétszaggat (hu), elszaggat (hu), kitép (hu), kettétép (hu), kettészakít (hu)
• Maori: tīhae, tīhaehae
• Russian: отрыва́ть (ru) n (otryvátʹ)
• Spanish: rasgar (es), desgarrar (es)
• Tok Pisin: brukim

to be rent or torn

• Bulgarian: скъсвам се (skǎsvam se)
• Czech: pukat (cs) impf, trhat se impf
• Finnish: revetä (fi), repeytyä, pirstoutua (fi)
• Hungarian: szakad (hu), elszakad (hu), kettészakad (hu), hasad (hu), széthasad (hu), elhasad (hu), reped (hu), elreped (hu)
• Spanish: romperse (es), desgarrarse (es)

Noun

rend (plural rends)

1. A violent separation of parts.
   • 2002, John S. Anderson, A Daughter of Light, page xvi:

     She'd been in a couple of minor car accidents herself, and witnessed a few others, and the rend of metal was unforgettable.

Anagrams

• NERD, dern, nerd

Albanian

Etymology 1

An early loanword from a South Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *rędъ (“row, line”) with a preserved nasal. Compare Old Church Slavonic рѧдъ (rędŭ, “line, order”), Serbo-Croatian red (“row”), Bulgarian ред (red, “row”), and West Slavic descendant Polish rząd (“row”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾɛnd/

Noun

rend m (plural rende, definite rendi, definite plural rendet)

1. row, order, line
2. turn
3. class, category

Declension

Declension of rend

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rend	rendi	rende	rendet
accusative		rendin
dative	rendi	rendit	rendeve	rendeve
ablative			rendesh

Synonyms

• radhë
• rresht

Derived terms

• rendit
• renditje
• rendoj

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *renta, from *rena, akin to Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (rinnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”).

Verb

rend (aorist renda, participle rendur)

1. to run (after), hurry (after)

   Synonym: gjëmoj

Danish

Verb

rend

1. imperative of rende

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Verb

rend

1. third-person singular present indicative of rendre

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *rędъ. Compare Serbo-Croatian rȇd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛnd]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: rend
• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Noun

rend (countable and uncountable, plural rendek)

1. order (the state of being well-arranged)
2. order (conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet)
3. order (a group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles)

   Synonym: szerzetesrend

4. order (an association of knights)

   Synonym: lovagrend

5. (biology, taxonomy) order (a category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank)

   Coordinate terms: törzs, osztály, család, nemzetség, (in zoology) nem, faj

6. (historical) estate (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm))

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	rend	rendek
accusative	rendet	rendeket
dative	rendnek	rendeknek
instrumental	renddel	rendekkel
causal-final	rendért	rendekért
translative	renddé	rendekké
terminative	rendig	rendekig
essive-formal	rendként	rendekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	rendben	rendekben
superessive	renden	rendeken
adessive	rendnél	rendeknél
illative	rendbe	rendekbe
sublative	rendre	rendekre
allative	rendhez	rendekhez
elative	rendből	rendekből
delative	rendről	rendekről
ablative	rendtől	rendektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	rendé	rendeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	rendéi	rendekéi

Possessive forms of rend
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	rendem	rendjeim
2nd person sing.	rended	rendjeid
3rd person sing.	rendje	rendjei
1st person plural	rendünk	rendjeink
2nd person plural	rendetek	rendjeitek
3rd person plural	rendjük	rendjeik

Derived terms

• rendel
• rendes
• rendetlen
• rendez
• rendész → rendészet
• rendi → rendiség
• rendre (inflected form) → rendreutasít
• rendű → rendűség

 

Compound words with this term at the beginning

• rendbeli
• rendbírság
• rendbontás
• rendbüntetés
• rendellenes
• rendfenntartás, rendfenntartó
• rendfokozat
• rendfőnök
• rendgyakorlat
• rendhagyó
• rendház
• rendjel
• rendkívül → rendkívüli
• rendőr
• rendszabály
• rendszám
• rendszer
• rendszeretet
• rendszerint
• rendtartás
• rendtárs
• rendvédelem → rendvédelmi
• rendzavarás

Compound words with this term at the end

• alrend
• apácarend
• ábécérend, ábécésorrend
• Ágoston-rend
• államrend
• állatrend
• becsületrend
• Benedek-rend
• betűrend
• borrend
• csatarend
• Domonkos-rend
• életrend
• érdemrend
• értékrend
• étrend
• Ferenc-rend
• főrend
• hadrend
• hangrend
• harmadrend
• házirend
• hivatásrend
• időrend
• jogrend
• kegyesrend
• közrend
• laktanyarend
• lovagrend
• Mária Terézia-rend
• menetrend
• munkarend
• nagyságrend
• napirend
• oszloprend
• órarend
• sarjúrend
• sorrend
• szertartásrend
• szerzetesrend
• szobarend
• szórend
• tanrend
• tapsrend
• táncrend
• térdszalagrend
• ujjrend
• ügyrend
• ülésrend
• vaskoronarend
• világrend
• vizsgarend

 

Expressions

• rendbe: rendbe hoz, rendbe jön, rendbe szed, rendbe tesz
• rendben: rendben van, rendben tart
• rendje-módja szerint
• rendjén: rendjén van
• rendre: rendre int

 

Further reading

• rend in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN