rabi = rabbi
rác = Serb
raktárnok = storeroom
ref. = református = Reformed, Calvinist protestant
református [ref., REF.] = Reformed, Calvinist protestant
reggel = in the morning
regi = old, ancient
regibb = older
regös = minstrel band
rendes = regular
rendfokozat = rank
répás = with carrots
resali szures altol = stabbed clean through
réssz = part
révész = ferryman
rézmüves = pail/bucket maker
rokon = relative
Római Katolikus [rk., RK.] = Roman Catholic
rongyász = used clothing peddler
rossz = bad
ruhafestö = dyer, painter of clothes
rutén = Ukrainian, Ruthenian
DISEASES
rágóizomgörcs = tetanus, lock-jaw
rák = cancer
rángás = convulsion, cramps, spasm
ránggörcs, rángógörcs = convulsion cramps, spasm, epilepsy
reuma = rheumatism
roham [betegségé] = seizure
roncsoló-torokgyik or roncsoló-toroklob = diphtheritis, malignant sore throat, a contagious disease affecting the throat and upper air-passages, with a tendency to spread. Synonym with diphtheria [which is the general infection which proceeds from local diphtheritis]. Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by toxigenic strains of the bacillus corynebacterium diphtheriae, acquired by contact with an infected person or a carrier of the disease. It was usually confined to the upper respiratory tract (throat) and characterized by the formation of a tough membrane (false membrane) attached firmly to the underlying tissue that would bleed if forcibly removed. The disease was occasionally confused with scarlet fever and croup
rósahimlö = rose-rash, roseola [rubella, German measles]