ralph

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /ˈɹælf/
  Play
• [ˈɹwælf]
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -ælf
  Play
• /ˈɹeɪ̯f/ older, UK
  Play
• [ˈɹweɪ̯f] older, UK
  Play
• rhymes with -eɪf
  Play
• /ɹælf/
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: R AE1 L F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From Middle English Radulf, from Old English Rǣdwulf (also as Raulf), from Proto-West Germanic *Rādawulf, from Proto-Germanic *Rēdawulfaz. Reinforced by similar forms brought to England, e.g. Old Norse Ráðúlfr, then in the Norman form Old French Radulf, Radulph. For the sense relating to vomiting, see ralph.

US 1960s, of uncertain origin, apparently derived from a use of the male name Ralph, but perhaps imitative.

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رَالْف (rālf) — male given name
• Bengali: র্যালফ (royaloph) — male given name
• Bulgarian: Ралф (Ralf) — male given name
• Catalan: Raül — male given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 拉爾夫 /拉尔夫 (Lā'ěrfū) — male given name
• Danish: Ralf — male given name
• Esperanto: Rolfo — male given name
• Estonian: Raul — male given name
• Finnish: Rauli — male given name
• French: Raoul — male given name
• Georgian: რალფი (ralpi) — male given name
• Georgian: რაული (rauli) — male given name
• Georgian: რუდოლფი (rudolpi) — male given name
• German: Ralf — male given name
• Greek: Ραλφ (Ralf) — male given name
• Hebrew: רָאלְף (ralf) — male given name
• Italian: Raul — male given name
• Japanese: ラルフ (rarufu) — male given name
• Korean: 랄프 (ralpeu) — male given name
• Latvian: Ralfs — male given name
• Lithuanian: Ralfas — male given name
• Persian: رالف (râlf) — male given name
• Polish: Ralf — male given name
• Portuguese: Raul — male given name
• Russian: Ральф (Ralʹf) — male given name
• Serbo-Croatian: Ралф — male given name
• Serbo-Croatian: Ralf — male given name
• Spanish: Raúl — male given name
• Swedish: Ralf — male given name
• Swedish: Rolf — male given name
• Thai: ราล์ฟ (râaf) — male given name
• Ukrainian: Ральф (Ralʹf) — male given name