Meaning and Origin
What does the name Rut mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Colorado, U.S. says the name Rut means "A person that loves others more than herself and loves helping the more" and is of English origin.
- [Physiol] Sexual desire or œstrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the œstrus exists.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
Etymology: F. rut, OF. ruit, L. rugitus a roaring, fr. rugire to roar; -- so called from the noise made by deer in rutting time.]
Etymology: variant of route
- A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape ("they fell into a conversational rut")
- A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
- Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
- Be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals