ronda

See also: Ronda and rondá

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈrun.də]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈron.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈron.da]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

ronda f (plural rondes)

1. round (of drinks)
2. rounding, surrounding
3. roundabout
4. ring road
5. (card games) round

Anagrams

• adorn, donar, ondar

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ronda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾonda/ [ˈɾon̪.d̪a]
• Hyphenation: ron‧da

Noun

rónda (Basahan spelling ᜍᜓᜈ᜔ᜇ)

1. patrol

   Synonym: sakyada

Derived terms

• magronda
• rondahan

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-der.

Proto-Italic *retōrder.?

Latin rotundus

French rondbor.

Esperanto ronda

Borrowed from French rond, from Latin rotundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈronda/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -onda
• Syllabification: ron‧da

Adjective

ronda (accusative singular rondan, plural rondaj, accusative plural rondajn)

1. round

Descendants

• Ido: ronda

Further reading

• “ronda”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “ronda”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• randa (colloquial)

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. From an otherwise unattested stem that is perhaps related to the stem of romlik, roncsol, and ront.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrondɒ]
• Hyphenation: ron‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Adjective

ronda (comparative rondább, superlative legrondább)

1. ugly

   Synonyms: csúnya, csúf, rút, rusnya, ocsmány

   Antonym: szép

2. (figuratively) disgusting, repulsive, repugnant, loathsome, foul, nasty

   Synonyms: visszataszító, ellenszenves, utálatos, ocsmány, rusnya

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	ronda	rondák
accusative	rondát	rondákat
dative	rondának	rondáknak
instrumental	rondával	rondákkal
causal-final	rondáért	rondákért
translative	rondává	rondákká
terminative	rondáig	rondákig
essive-formal	rondaként	rondákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	rondában	rondákban
superessive	rondán	rondákon
adessive	rondánál	rondáknál
illative	rondába	rondákba
sublative	rondára	rondákra
allative	rondához	rondákhoz
elative	rondából	rondákból
delative	rondáról	rondákról
ablative	rondától	rondáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	rondáé	rondáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	rondáéi	rondákéi

Derived terms

• rondaság
• rondán
• rondít → belerondít, elrondít

See also

Similar-sounding terms with (partly or wholly) negative senses, etymologically unrelated or with unconfirmed relationship

• rombol
• romlik
• roncsol
• rongál
• rongy
• ront

Further reading

• ronda in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ronda, French rond, ultimately from Latin rotundus.

Adjective

ronda

1. round

Derived terms

• rondigar (“to make round”)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ronda, from Portuguese ronda, from Spanish ronda, from Latin rotunda. Doublet of raun, ronde, and rondo.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈrɔnda/ [ˈron.da]
• Rhymes: -ɔnda
• Syllabification: ron‧da

Verb

ronda

1. to round, to patrol

   Synonyms: berjaga, berpatroli, kawal sambang, mengakap, melanglang, sambang

Derived terms

• meronda
• peronda
• perondaan

Related terms

• raun
• ronde

Further reading

• “ronda”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈron.da/
• Rhymes: -onda
• Hyphenation: rón‧da

Noun

ronda f (plural ronde)

1. rondo
2. patrol, rounds, beat

Anagrams

• Andro, Nardò, Rando, andro-, andrò, nardo, radon

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁõ.dɐ/ [ˈhõ.dɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁõ.dɐ/ [ˈhõ.dɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁõ.dɐ/ [ˈχõ.dɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁõ.dɐ/

• Hyphenation: ron‧da

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish ronda. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese rolda.

Noun

ronda f (plural rondas)

1. round (circular or repetitious route)
2. patrol (the monitoring of an area)
3. round (song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time)

   Synonym: cânone

Descendants

• → Gujarati: રોન (ron)
• → Indonesian: ronda

Etymology 2

Verb

ronda

1. inflection of rondar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “ronda”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ronda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈronda/ [ˈrõn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -onda
• Syllabification: ron‧da

Etymology 1

Uncertain; maybe from Old Spanish robda of Arabic origin, or a popular derivation of Latin rotunda.

Noun

ronda f (plural rondas)

1. round, iteration (of drinks, golf, elections, cards, etc.)
2. (music) group of musicians, especially serenaders
3. (transport) ellipsis of ronda de circunvalación; ring road
4. beat, patrol

Derived terms

• rondar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ronda

1. inflection of rondar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “ronda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ronda.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾonda/ [ˈɾon̪.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -onda
• Syllabification: ron‧da

Noun

ronda (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜈ᜔ᜇ)

1. patrol

   Synonym: patrulya

2. night patrol (such as by a fire brigade)
3. round (of drinks, cards, etc.)

Derived terms

• magronda
• rondahan

See also

• ikot
• rawnd
• rotonda