ruler

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːlə/
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• /ˈɹuː.lə/ “measuring device”
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• [ɹʉwlə]
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• /ˈɹuːl.ə/ “one who rules”
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• [ɹʊwlə]
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• General-American: /ˈɹulɚ/
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• Scotland: /ˈɾʉləɾ/
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• Wales: /ˈɾɪulə/
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• Northern-Ireland: /ˈɹʉləɹ/
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• rhymes with -uːlə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: R UW1 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English reuler; equivalent to rule + -er.

289 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: liniaal — measuring or drawing device
• Afrikaans: liniale — measuring or drawing device
• Albanian: vizore — measuring or drawing device
• Arabic: مِسْطَرَة (misṭara) — measuring or drawing device
• Arabic: مسطرة (masṭara) — measuring or drawing device
• Arabic: مسطرة (másṭara) — measuring or drawing device
• Armenian: քանոն (kʻanon) — measuring or drawing device
• Asturian: regla — measuring or drawing device
• Azerbaijani: xətkeş — measuring or drawing device
• Azerbaijani: xətçəkən — measuring or drawing device
• Basque: erregela — measuring or drawing device
• Belarusian: ліне́йка (linjéjka) — measuring or drawing device
• Bengali: মাপনী (mapni) — measuring or drawing device
• Bulgarian: лини́йка (liníjka) — measuring or drawing device
• Burmese: မျည်းတံ (myany:tam) — measuring or drawing device
• Catalan: regle — measuring or drawing device
• Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎶᏍᏗ (atsilosdi) — measuring or drawing device
• Chinese Cantonese: 間尺 /间尺 (gaan3 cek3) — measuring or drawing device
• Chinese Cantonese: 尺 (cek3) — measuring or drawing device
• Chinese Cantonese: 直尺 (zik6 cek3) — measuring or drawing device
• Chinese: чызы (čɨzɨ) — measuring or drawing device
• Chinese: 尺 (zh-min-nan) — measuring or drawing device
• Chinese Mandarin: 尺 (chǐ) — measuring or drawing device
• Chinese Mandarin: 直尺 (zhíchǐ) — measuring or drawing device
• Chinese Mandarin: 尺子 (chǐzi) — measuring or drawing device
• Czech: pravítko — measuring or drawing device
• Danish: lineal — measuring or drawing device
• Central Dusun: tutuku — measuring or drawing device
• Dutch: meetlat — measuring or drawing device
• Dutch: liniaal — measuring or drawing device
• Esperanto: liniilo — measuring or drawing device
• Estonian: joonlaud — measuring or drawing device
• Finnish: viivain — measuring or drawing device
• Finnish: viivoitin — measuring or drawing device
• French: règle — measuring or drawing device
• French: latte — measuring or drawing device
• Galician: regra — measuring or drawing device
• Georgian: სახაზავი (saxazavi) — measuring or drawing device
• German: Lineal — measuring or drawing device
• Greek: χάρακας (chárakas) — measuring or drawing device
• Greek: ρίγα (ríga) — measuring or drawing device
• Ancient Greek: χάραξ (khárax) — measuring or drawing device
• Hebrew: סַרְגֵל (sargél) — measuring or drawing device
• Hindi: पैमाना (paimānā) — measuring or drawing device
• Hindi: रूलर (rūlar) — measuring or drawing device
• Hungarian: vonalzó — measuring or drawing device
• Icelandic: reglustika — measuring or drawing device
• Ido: linealo — measuring or drawing device
• Indonesian: penggaris — measuring or drawing device
• Indonesian: mistar — measuring or drawing device
• Irish: rialóir — measuring or drawing device
• Italian: righello — measuring or drawing device
• Japanese: 定規 (jōgi) — measuring or drawing device
• Japanese: 物差し (monosashi) — measuring or drawing device
• Japanese: ルーラー (rūrā) — measuring or drawing device
• Kalmyk: кимзә (kimzä) — measuring or drawing device
• Kankanaey: lukod — measuring or drawing device
• Kannada: ಅಳತೆ ಪಟ್ಟಿ (aḷate paṭṭi) — measuring or drawing device
• Kazakh: сызғыш (syzğyş) — measuring or drawing device
• Khmer: បន្ទាត់ (bɑɑbɑntŏət) — measuring or drawing device
• Korean: 자 (ja) — measuring or drawing device
• Korean: 눈금자 (nun'geumja) — measuring or drawing device
• Korean: 룰러 (rulleo) — measuring or drawing device
• Central Kurdish: ڕاستە (raste) — measuring or drawing device
• Northern Kurdish: rastkêş — measuring or drawing device
• Northern Kurdish: cedwel — measuring or drawing device
• Kyrgyz: сызгыч (sızgıc) — measuring or drawing device
• Lao: ໄມ້ບັນທັດ — measuring or drawing device
• Latgalian: linejals — measuring or drawing device
• Latin: rēgula — measuring or drawing device
• Latvian: lineāls — measuring or drawing device
• Lithuanian: liniuõtė — measuring or drawing device
• Lü: ᦺᦙᧉᦶᦑᧅ (may2taek) — measuring or drawing device
• Macedonian: линијар (linijar) — measuring or drawing device
• Malay: pembaris — measuring or drawing device
• Maltese: riga — measuring or drawing device
• Manchu: ᡱᡳ (c'y) — measuring or drawing device
• Manchu: ᠵᡠᡧᡠᡵᡠ (jušuru) — measuring or drawing device
• Marathi: मोजपट्टी (mojpaṭṭī) — measuring or drawing device
• Marathi: पट्टी (paṭṭī) — measuring or drawing device
• Mongolian: шугам (šugam) — measuring or drawing device
• Navajo: bee ídaʼneelʼąąhí — measuring or drawing device
• Nepali: नाप (nāp) — measuring or drawing device
• Nepali: स्केल (skel) — measuring or drawing device
• Norman: relle — measuring or drawing device
• Norwegian Bokmål: linjal — measuring or drawing device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: linjal — measuring or drawing device
• Old English: regolsticca — measuring or drawing device
• Pashto: ختکه (xataka) — measuring or drawing device
• Pashto: خط کښ (xat kax̌) — measuring or drawing device
• Iranian Persian: خَطْکِش (xat-keš) — measuring or drawing device
• Iranian Persian: خَط کِش (xat keš) — measuring or drawing device
• Polish: linijka — measuring or drawing device
• Portuguese: régua — measuring or drawing device
• Romanian: riglă — measuring or drawing device
• Romanian: linie — measuring or drawing device
• Russian: лине́йка (linéjka) — measuring or drawing device
• Serbo-Croatian: цр̏тало — measuring or drawing device
• Serbo-Croatian: ра̀внало — measuring or drawing device
• Serbo-Croatian: cȑtalo — measuring or drawing device
• Serbo-Croatian: ràvnalo — measuring or drawing device
• Slovak: pravítko — measuring or drawing device
• Lower Sorbian: lineal — measuring or drawing device
• Lower Sorbian: smugadło — measuring or drawing device
• Upper Sorbian: lineal — measuring or drawing device
• Upper Sorbian: prawidło — measuring or drawing device
• Slovene: ravnilo — measuring or drawing device
• Spanish: regla — measuring or drawing device
• Swahili: rula — measuring or drawing device
• Swedish: linjal — measuring or drawing device
• Tagalog: galod — measuring or drawing device
• Tajik: хат (xat) — measuring or drawing device
• Tajik: хаткашак (xatkašak) — measuring or drawing device
• Tatar: сызгыч (sızğıç) — measuring or drawing device
• Tatar: җәдвәл (cädwäl) — measuring or drawing device
• Thai: ไม้บรรทัด (mái-ban-tát) — measuring or drawing device
• Tigrinya: መስመር (mäsmär) — measuring or drawing device
• Turkish: cetvel — measuring or drawing device
• Ottoman Turkish: جدول (cedvel) — measuring or drawing device
• Ottoman Turkish: مسطر (mıstar) — measuring or drawing device
• Turkmen: lineýka — measuring or drawing device
• Ukrainian: ліні́йка (liníjka) — measuring or drawing device
• Urdu: مِسْطَر (mistar) — measuring or drawing device
• Urdu: رُولَر (rūlar) — measuring or drawing device
• Urdu: پَیمانَہ (paimāna) — measuring or drawing device
• Uyghur: سىزغۇچ (sizghuch) — measuring or drawing device
• Uzbek: lineyka — measuring or drawing device
• Uzbek: chizgʻich — measuring or drawing device
• Vietnamese: thước kẻ — measuring or drawing device
• Vietnamese: thước — measuring or drawing device
• Welsh: pren mesur — measuring or drawing device
• Welsh: llinellydd — measuring or drawing device
• Zazaki: peymenek — measuring or drawing device
• Zazaki: mastar — measuring or drawing device
• Afrikaans: heerser — person who rules or governs
• Albanian: sundimtar — person who rules or governs
• Arabic: حَاكِم (ḥākim) — person who rules or governs
• Arabic: حاكم (ḥakem) — person who rules or governs
• Armenian: տիրակալ (tirakal) — person who rules or governs
• Azerbaijani: hökmdar — person who rules or governs
• Azerbaijani: hakim — person who rules or governs
• Azerbaijani: hökmran — person who rules or governs
• Bashkir: батша (batşa) — person who rules or governs
• Bashkir: хаким (xakim) — person who rules or governs
• Belarusian: праві́цель (pravícjelʹ) — person who rules or governs
• Belarusian: улада́р (uladár) — person who rules or governs
• Bengali: শাসক (śaśok) — person who rules or governs
• Bulgarian: властели́н (vlastelín) — person who rules or governs
• Bulgarian: господа́р (gospodár) — person who rules or governs
• Bulgarian: владе́тел (vladétel) — person who rules or governs
• Burmese: အုပ်ချုပ်သောသူ (uphkyupsau:su) — person who rules or governs
• Catalan: líder — person who rules or governs
• Catalan: governant — person who rules or governs
• Cherokee: ᎤᎬᏫᏳᎯ (ugvwiyuhi) — person who rules or governs
• Chinese Mandarin: 統治者 /统治者 (tǒngzhìzhě) — person who rules or governs
• Czech: vládce — person who rules or governs
• Danish: hersker — person who rules or governs
• Dutch: heerser — person who rules or governs
• Egyptian: HqA-q-A-A1 (ḥqꜣ) — person who rules or governs
• Esperanto: regnestro — person who rules or governs
• Estonian: riigivalitseja — person who rules or governs
• Finnish: hallitsija — person who rules or governs
• Finnish: vallanpitäjä — person who rules or governs
• French: dirigeant — person who rules or governs
• French: chef — person who rules or governs
• Georgian: მმართველი (mmartveli) — person who rules or governs
• German: Herrscher — person who rules or governs
• Gothic: 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (reiks) — person who rules or governs
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fraujinōnds) — person who rules or governs
• Greek: κυβερνήτης (kyvernítis) — person who rules or governs
• Ancient Greek: ἀρχός (arkhós) — person who rules or governs
• Ancient Greek: ἄρχων (árkhōn) — person who rules or governs
• Ancient Greek: ἡγεμών (hēgemṓn) — person who rules or governs
• Haitian Creole: chèf — person who rules or governs
• Hebrew: מַנְהִיג (manhíg) — person who rules or governs
• Hebrew: שַׁלִּיט (shálit) — person who rules or governs
• Hindi: शासक (śāsak) — person who rules or governs
• Hindi: हाकिम (hākim) — person who rules or governs
• Hindi: हुक्मरान (hukmarān) — person who rules or governs
• Hungarian: uralkodó — person who rules or governs
• Icelandic: alvaldur — person who rules or governs
• Icelandic: drottnari — person who rules or governs
• Indonesian: penguasa — person who rules or governs
• Irish: rialtóir — person who rules or governs
• Italian: sovrano — person who rules or governs
• Japanese: 支配者 (shihaisha) — person who rules or governs
• Japanese: 知事 (chiji) — person who rules or governs
• Japanese: 統治者 (tōchisha) — person who rules or governs
• Javanese: ratu — person who rules or governs
• Kazakh: билеуші (bileuşı) — person who rules or governs
• Kazakh: басқарушы (basqaruşy) — person who rules or governs
• Kikuyu: mũthamaki — person who rules or governs
• Korean: 통치자 (tongchija) — person who rules or governs
• Korean: 지배자 (jibaeja) — person who rules or governs
• Northern Kurdish: hikumdar — person who rules or governs
• Kyrgyz: бий (biy) — person who rules or governs
• Kyrgyz: башкаруучу (başkaruucu) — person who rules or governs
• Kyrgyz: аким (akim) — person who rules or governs
• Latgalian: vaļdinīks — person who rules or governs
• Latin: dominātor — person who rules or governs
• Latin: tyrannus — person who rules or governs
• Latvian: valdnieks — person who rules or governs
• Lithuanian: valdõvas — person who rules or governs
• Macedonian: владетел (vladetel) — person who rules or governs
• Macedonian: владар (vladar) — person who rules or governs
• Malay: penguasa — person who rules or governs
• Malay: pemerintah — person who rules or governs
• Marathi: शासक (śāsak) — person who rules or governs
• Marathi: सत्ताधारी (sattādhārī) — person who rules or governs
• Middle English: reuler — person who rules or governs
• Middle English: senyour — person who rules or governs
• Mongolian: захирагч (zaxiragč) — person who rules or governs
• Nahuatl: tecutli — person who rules or governs
• Norwegian Bokmål: hersker — person who rules or governs
• Norwegian Bokmål: makthaver — person who rules or governs
• Norwegian Nynorsk: herskar — person who rules or governs
• Norwegian Nynorsk: makthavar — person who rules or governs
• Old Prussian: rikis — person who rules or governs
• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰍𐰣 — person who rules or governs
• Pashto: حاکم (hākem) — person who rules or governs
• Persian: فرمانروا (farmānravā) — person who rules or governs
• Iranian Persian: حاکِم (hâkem) — person who rules or governs
• Iranian Persian: حُکْمْران (hokmrân) — person who rules or governs
• Iranian Persian: والی (vâli) — person who rules or governs
• Polish: władca — person who rules or governs
• Polish: włodarz — person who rules or governs
• Portuguese: governante — person who rules or governs
• Romanian: guvernant — person who rules or governs
• Romanian: domnitor — person who rules or governs
• Russian: прави́тель (pravítelʹ) — person who rules or governs
• Russian: властели́н (vlastelín) — person who rules or governs
• Russian: власти́тель (vlastítelʹ) — person who rules or governs
• Russian: госуда́рь (gosudárʹ) — person who rules or governs
• Sanskrit: अधिप (adhipa) — person who rules or governs
• Sanskrit: शासक (śāsaka) — person who rules or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: вла̀да̄р — person who rules or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: во̏ђа — person who rules or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: vlàdār — person who rules or governs
• Serbo-Croatian: vȍđa — person who rules or governs
• Slovak: vládca — person who rules or governs
• Slovene: vladar — person who rules or governs
• Spanish: gobernante — person who rules or governs
• Swedish: härskare — person who rules or governs
• Swedish: ledare — person who rules or governs
• Tabaru: koana — person who rules or governs
• Tagalog: naghahari — person who rules or governs
• Tajik: ҳоким (hokim) — person who rules or governs
• Tajik: ҳукмдор (hukmdor) — person who rules or governs
• Tatar: хаким (xakim) — person who rules or governs
• Telugu: అధికారి (adhikāri) — person who rules or governs
• Ternate: kolano — person who rules or governs
• Thai: ผู้ว่าการ (pûu-am-nuai-gaan) — person who rules or governs
• Tocharian B: kamartīke — person who rules or governs
• Turkish: hükümdar — person who rules or governs
• Turkish: hükümran — person who rules or governs
• Ottoman Turkish: حكمدار (hükümdar) — person who rules or governs
• Turkmen: hökümdar — person who rules or governs
• Ukrainian: прави́тель (pravýtelʹ) — person who rules or governs
• Ukrainian: волода́р (volodár) — person who rules or governs
• Urdu: حاکِم (hākim) — person who rules or governs
• Urdu: حُکْمَران (hukmarān) — person who rules or governs
• Urdu: والی (vālī) — person who rules or governs
• Uyghur: ھۆكۈمدار (hökümdar) — person who rules or governs
• Uyghur: ھاكىم (hakim) — person who rules or governs
• Uzbek: hukmdor — person who rules or governs
• Uzbek: hokim — person who rules or governs
• Vietnamese: người thống trị — person who rules or governs
• Afrikaans: heersers — a female person who rules or governs
• Belarusian: праві́целька (pravícjelʹka) — a female person who rules or governs
• Bulgarian: владе́телка (vladételka) — a female person who rules or governs
• Czech: vládkyně — a female person who rules or governs
• Danish: herskerinde — a female person who rules or governs
• Dutch: heerseres — a female person who rules or governs
• Finnish: hallitsijatar — a female person who rules or governs
• German: Herrscherin — a female person who rules or governs
• Hungarian: uralkodónő — a female person who rules or governs
• Latgalian: vaļdineica — a female person who rules or governs
• Latin: dominātrīx — a female person who rules or governs
• Latin: tyranna — a female person who rules or governs
• Latvian: valdniece — a female person who rules or governs
• Lithuanian: valdõvė — a female person who rules or governs
• Macedonian: владетелка (vladetelka) — a female person who rules or governs
• Polish: władczyni — a female person who rules or governs
• Russian: прави́тельница (pravítelʹnica) — a female person who rules or governs
• Russian: власти́тельница (vlastítelʹnica) — a female person who rules or governs
• Russian: госуда́рыня (gosudárynja) — a female person who rules or governs
• Slovak: vládkyňa — a female person who rules or governs
• Swedish: härskarinna — a female person who rules or governs
• Ukrainian: прави́телька (pravýtelʹka) — a female person who rules or governs