rype

Borrowed from Danish rype.

rype (plural rypes)

1. A bird, the ptarmigan.
   • 1909, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News, volume 32, page 426:

     The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.

rype

1. Obsolete spelling of ripe.

• prey, pyre

From Norwegian rype, from Old Norse rjúpa (“ptarmigan”).

• IPA^(key): /ryːpə/, [ˈʁyːb̥ə]

rype c (singular definite rypen, plural indefinite ryper)

1. ptarmigan (of the genus Lagopus)

• “rype” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse rjúpa.

rype f or m (definite singular rypa or rypen, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)
2. (colloquial, slightly vulgar) girl

• fjellrype
• lirype
• rypefalk

• “rype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• rjupa, rjupe, rypa

From Old Norse rjúpa.

• IPA^(key): /²ryːpə/

rype f (definite singular rypa, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)
2. (colloquial, slightly vulgar) girl

• Jostedalsrypa
• fjellrype
• lirype
• rypefalk

• “rype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.