rival

English

Etymology

From Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from rīvus (“small stream, brook”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪvəl/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪvəl

Noun

rival (plural rivals)

A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
  The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
As a social historian, he has no rival.
(obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
  If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

Hyponyms

rivaless

Derived terms

rivaless
rivalry
archrival, arch-rival

Related terms

rivulet

Translations

competitor with the same objective

Albanian: rival (sq) m, kundërshtar (sq) m
Arabic: مُنَافِس‎ m (munāfis)
Armenian: մրցակից (hy) (mrcʿakicʿ), հակառակորդ (hy) (hakaṙakord)
Azerbaijani: rəqib (az)
Belarusian: супе́рнік m (supjérnik), супе́рніца f (supjérnica), сапе́рнік m (sapjérnik), сапе́рніца f (sapjérnica), супраці́ўнік m (supracíŭnik), супраці́ўніца f (supracíŭnica), канкурэ́нт m (kankurént), канкурэ́нтка f (kankuréntka), су́пар m (súpar), су́парка f (súparka)
Bengali: প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বী (prôtidẇndẇī)
Bulgarian: съпе́рник (bg) m (sǎpérnik), съпе́рница f (sǎpérnica), съпе́рничка f (sǎpérnička); проти́вник (bg) m (protívnik), проти́вница f (protívnica), проти́вничка f (protívnička), конкуре́нт (bg) m (konkurént), конкуре́нтка f (konkuréntka)
Burmese: အပြိုင် (my) (a.pruing), ယှဉ်ဖက် (my) (hyanyhpak)
Catalan: rival (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 對手／对手 (zh) (duìshǒu), 敵手／敌手 (zh) (díshǒu)
Czech: soupeř (cs) m, soupeřka f, sok (cs) m, sokyně (cs) f, rival (cs) m, rivalka (cs) f
Danish: rival c
Dutch: tegenstander (nl), rivaal (nl), concurent, vijand (nl)
Egyptian:

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Esperanto: rivalo
Estonian: võistleja, rivaal
Finnish: kilpailija (fi)
French: rival (fr) m, rivale (fr) f
Georgian: მეტოქე (meṭoke), რაყიფი (raq̇ipi) (archaic)
German: Gegner (de) m, Rivale (de) m, Konkurrent (de) m, Gegnerin (de) f, Rivalin (de) f, Konkurrentin (de) f
Greek: αντίζηλος (el) m (antízilos), ανταγωνιστής (el) m (antagonistís)
Ancient: ἀντίπαλος m (antípalos), ἀγωνιστής m (agōnistḗs)
Hebrew: יָרִיב‎ (he) m (yarív), מִתְחָרֶה‎ m (mitkhare)
Higaonon: pag-agawan
Hindi: रक़ीब m (raqīb), प्रतिद्वंद्वी (hi) m (pratidvandvī), हरीफ़ m (harīf), प्रतियोगी (hi) m (pratiyogī), प्रतिरोधी (hi) m (pratirodhī), प्रतिवादी (hi) m (prativādī), प्रतिस्पर्धी m (pratispardhī)
Hungarian: rivális (hu), vetélytárs (hu)
Indonesian: lawan (id), penentang (id), musun
Italian: rivale (it) m, competitore (it), antagonista (it) m, avversario (it)
Japanese: 好敵手 (こうてきしゅ, kōtekishu), 宿敵 (しゅくてき, shukuteki), ライバル (ja) (raibaru)
Kazakh: қарсылас (qarsylas)
Khmer: គូប្រជែង (kuu prɑcɛɛng)
Korean: 경쟁자 (ko) (gyeongjaengja), 라이벌 (ko) (raibeol)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: reqîb (ku), hevrik (ku)
Kyrgyz: атаандаш (ky) (ataandaş)
Lao: ຄູ່ແຂ່ງ (khū khǣng)
Latin: aemulus m, aemula m, rīvālis m
Latvian: sāncensis m, konkurents m
Lithuanian: varžovas m, konkurentas m
Macedonian: соперник m (sopernik), соперничка f (sopernička), ривал m (rival), ривалка f (rivalka)
Malay: saingan, lawan (ms)
Maori: wheinga, hoa kakari
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: өрсөлдөгч (mn) (örsöldögč)
Mongolian: ᠥᠷᠢᠰᠦᠯᠳᠦᠭᠴᠢ (örisüldüɣči)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rival (no) m
Pashto: رقيب‎ (ps) m (raqíb), حريف‎ (ps) m (haríf), سيال‎ (ps) m (sayāl)
Persian: رقیب‎ (fa) (raqib), حریف‎ (fa) (harif)
Polish: rywal (pl), rywalka (pl) f, konkurent (pl) m, konkurentka (pl) f
Portuguese: rival (pt) m or f, adversário (pt) m, competidor (pt) m
Romanian: rival (ro), rivală (ro) f
Russian: сопе́рник (ru) m (sopérnik), сопе́рница (ru) f (sopérnica), проти́вник (ru) m (protívnik), проти́вница (ru) f (protívnica), (in business) конкуре́нт (ru) m (konkurént), конкуре́нтка (ru) f (konkuréntka)
Scottish Gaelic: co-fharpaiseach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: су̀па̄рнӣк m, су̀па̄рница f, про̀тӣвнӣк m, pròtīvnica (sh) f, рѝва̄л m, рѝва̄лка f, конку̀рент m, конку̀рентица f
Roman: sùpārnīk (sh) m, sùpārnica (sh) f, pròtīvnīk (sh) m, pròtīvnica (sh) f, rìvāl (sh) m, rìvālka (sh) f, konkùrent (sh) m, konkùrentica (sh) f
Slovak: súper m, súperka f, sok m, sokyňa f, rival m, rivalka f
Slovene: tekmec m, tekmica f, konkurent m, konkurentka f
Spanish: rival (es) m
Swedish: rival (sv) c, konkurrent (sv) c
Tagalog: kaagaw
Tajik: рақиб (raqib), ҳариф (harif)
Thai: คู่แข่ง (th) (kûu-kɛ̀ng)
Turkish: rakip (tr)
Turkmen: garşydaş
Ukrainian: супе́рник m (supérnyk), супе́рниця f (supérnycja), проти́вник (uk) m (protývnyk), проти́вниця f (protývnycja), конкуре́нт m (konkurént), конкуре́нтка f (konkuréntka)
Urdu: رقیب‎‎ m (raqīb), حریف‎‎ m (harīf)
Uyghur: رەقىب‎ (reqib)
Uzbek: raqib (uz), harif (uz)
Vietnamese: đối thủ (vi), địch thủ

someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another

Bulgarian: конкурент (bg) m (konkurent)
Catalan: rival (ca)
Greek: εφάμιλλος (el) m (efámillos), ανταγωνιστής (el) m (antagonistís)
Italian: rivale (it) m, pari (it) m, avversario (it)
Maori: tautētete
Portuguese: rival (pt) m or f
Russian: ра́вный (ru) m (rávnyj)
Turkish: eş (tr), denk (tr), benzer (tr), rakip (tr), emsal (tr)

Adjective

rival (not comparable)

Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
  The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.

Derived terms

rivalrous

Translations

having the same pretensions or claims

Bulgarian: конкурентен (konkurenten)
Greek:
Ancient: ἀντίπαλος (antípalos)

Verb

rival (third-person singular simple present rivals, present participle rivalling or rivaling, simple past and past participle rivalled or rivaled)

(transitive) To oppose or compete with.
to rival somebody in love
To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
- 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
  But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎:
  The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
  to rival thunder in its rapid course

Translations

to oppose or compete with

Bulgarian: съпернича (bg) (sǎperniča)
Finnish: kilpailla (fi)
French: rivaliser (fr)
German: rivalisieren (de)
Greek: ανταγωνίζομαι (el) (antagonízomai), παραβγαίνω (el) (paravgaíno)
Hungarian: rivalizál, verseng (hu)
Italian: rivaleggiare (it), competere (it)
Maori: taumāhekeheke, tauwhāinga
Russian: сопе́рничать (ru) (sopérničatʹ), конкури́ровать (ru) (konkurírovatʹ)
Sanskrit: स्पर्धते (spardhate)
Ukrainian: супе́рничати impf (supérnyčaty), конкурувати (konkuruvaty), конкурувати (konkuruvaty)

To be equal to, or match

Bulgarian: равнявам се (ravnjavam se)
Maori: kātata, tāwhai

emulate

Anagrams

Avril, arvil, viral

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin rīvālis.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /riˈval/

(Central) IPA^(key): /riˈbal/

Adjective

rival (masculine and feminine plural rivals)

rival

Derived terms

rivalitzar

Related terms

riu
rivalitat

Noun

rival m or f (plural rivals)

rival

Czech

Etymology

From German Rival.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈrɪval]

Noun

rival m anim (feminine rivalka)

rival, competitor, opponent
sportovnírivalové. ― sports rivals.

Declension

Declension of rival

	singular	plural
nominative	rival	rivalové
genitive	rivala	rivalů
dative	rivalu,rivalovi	rivalům
accusative	rivala	rivaly
vocative	rivale	rivalové
locative	rivalu,rivalovi	rivalech
instrumental	rivalem	rivaly

Related terms

rivalita
rivalizovat
rivalský
rivalství

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from rīvus (“small stream, brook”). Unrelated to rive.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁi.val/
Audio (file)

Adjective

rival (feminine rivale, masculine plural rivaux, feminine plural rivales)

(relational) rival

Noun

rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)

rival

Descendants

→ Norwegian Bokmål: rival

Anagrams

avril, livra, viral

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ʁiˈvaːl]
Hyphenation: ri‧val

Adjective

rival (strong nominative masculine singular rivaler, not comparable)

(economics, of a good) rivalrous
- 2012, Michael Goldhammer, Geistiges Eigentum und Eigentumstheorie, Mohr Siebeck, page 196:
  Als zweites Argument gegen die Möglichkeit von geistigem Eigentum wird häufig vorgebracht, dass immaterielle Güter ihrer Natur nach nicht rival seien […]
  As a second argument against the possibility of intellectual property, it is often brought forward that immaterial goods are not rivalrous by nature

Declension

Positive forms of rival (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
number & gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist rival	sie ist rival	es ist rival	sie sind rival
strong declension (without article)	nominative	rivaler	rivale	rivales	rivale
	genitive	rivalen	rivaler	rivalen	rivaler
	dative	rivalem	rivaler	rivalem	rivalen
	accusative	rivalen	rivale	rivales	rivale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der rivale	die rivale	das rivale	die rivalen
	genitive	des rivalen	der rivalen	des rivalen	der rivalen
	dative	dem rivalen	der rivalen	dem rivalen	den rivalen
	accusative	den rivalen	die rivale	das rivale	die rivalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein rivaler	eine rivale	ein rivales	(keine) rivalen
	genitive	eines rivalen	einer rivalen	eines rivalen	(keiner) rivalen
	dative	einem rivalen	einer rivalen	einem rivalen	(keinen) rivalen
	accusative	einen rivalen	eine rivale	ein rivales	(keine) rivalen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French rival (“rival”), from Latin rīvālis (“of or pertaining to a brook; rival”), from rīvus (“brook; channel”), from Proto-Italic *rīwos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃riH-wó-s, from *h₃reyH- (“to move, flow”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”).

Noun

rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivaler, definite plural rivalene)

a rival

Derived terms

erkerival

References

“rival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin rivalis, via French rival.

Noun

rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivalar, definite plural rivalane)

a rival

Derived terms

erkerival

References

“rival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈvaw/ [hiˈvaʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈvaw/ [χiˈvaʊ̯]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈval/ [ʁiˈvaɫ]

Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
Hyphenation: ri‧val

Noun

rival m or f by sense (plural rivais)

rival (competitor with the same objective)
Synonyms: adversário, oponente

Adjective

rival m or f (plural rivais)

rival (standing in competition)

Related terms

rio

Romanian

Etymology

From French rival, from Latin rivalis.

Noun

rival m (plural rivali)

rival

Declension

Declension of rival

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) rival	rivalul	(niște) rivali	rivalii
genitive/dative	(unui) rival	rivalului	(unor) rivali	rivalilor
vocative	rivalule		rivalilor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /rǐʋaːl/
Hyphenation: ri‧val

Noun

rìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling рѝва̄л)

rival, adversary

Declension

Declension of rival

	singular	plural
nominative	rìvāl	rivali
genitive	rivála	riválā
dative	rivalu	rivalima
accusative	rivala	rivale
vocative	rivale	rivali
locative	rivalu	rivalima
instrumental	rivalom	rivalima

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rīvālis.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /riˈbal/ [riˈβ̞al]
Rhymes: -al
Syllabification: ri‧val

Adjective

rival (plural rivales)

adverse, rival

Noun

rival m or f (plural rivales)

rival
Synonyms: adversario, antagonista, competidor, contrario, oponente

Derived terms

archirrival
rivalizar

Related terms

rivalidad

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin rivalis, via French rival.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

rival c

rival

Declension

Declension of rival
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	rival	rivalen	rivaler	rivalerna
Genitive	rivals	rivalens	rivalers	rivalernas

Anagrams

vilar

rival

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