rubble

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• /ˈɹʌb.əl/
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Inherited from Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (waste material, bits of stone, rubble). Ultimately presumably from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", possibly also "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”), related to Proto-Germanic *reufaną (“to tear”), *raubōną (“to rob, steal, plunder”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَنْقَاض (ʔanqāḍ) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Arabic: رُكام (rukām) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Basque: zabor — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Belarusian: адло́мкі (adlómki) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Belarusian: абло́мкі (ablómki) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Belarusian: шчэ́бень (ščébjenʹ) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Belarusian: друз (druz) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Central Bikol: ragpa — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Breton: dismantr — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Bulgarian: отло́мки (otlómki) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Catalan: reble — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Chinese Mandarin: 瓦礫 /瓦砾 (wǎlì) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Chinese Mandarin: 碎石 (suìshí) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Czech: suť — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Dutch: puin — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Esperanto: ŝtonetaro — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Esperanto: rubo — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Estonian: kiviprügi — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Estonian: klibu — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Estonian: killustik — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Finnish: rauniot — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• French: décombres — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• French: débris — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• French: gravats — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Galician: entullo — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Galician: reblo — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Galician: rello — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Galician: rebo — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Galician: cascabullo — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• German: Schutt — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Hungarian: törmelék — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Hungarian: sitt — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Icelandic: rústir — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Ido: exkavuro — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Ido: eskombro — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Indonesian: puing — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Italian: calcinacci — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Italian: macerie — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Italian: detriti — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Japanese: 瓦礫 (gareki) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Korean: 파편 (papyeon) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Korean: 와력 (waryeok) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Latin: strāgēs — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Latin: rūdus — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Lithuanian: griuvėsiai — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Malay: puing — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Norwegian: grus — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Polish: rumowisko — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Portuguese: entulho — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Portuguese: escombros — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Romanian: moloz — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Romanian: dărâmătură — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Russian: обло́мки (oblómki) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Russian: ще́бень (ščébenʹ) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Spanish: escombros — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Spanish: desmonte — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Spanish: escombra — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Swahili: fusi — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Swedish: bråte — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Talysh: گیلی (gili) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Tibetan: རྡོ་ཧྲུག (rdo hrug) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Turkish: moloz — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Ottoman Turkish: مولوز (moloz) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Ukrainian: ула́мки (ulámky) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• Ukrainian: ще́бінь (ščébinʹ) — the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry