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rase

See also: rasé, rasë, rašė, řase, and RASE

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rase (plural rases)

  1. (obsolete) A scratching out, or erasure.
    • 1612, Pietro Martire “d'” Anghiera, De Novo Orbe, Or the Historie of the West Indies, page 89:
      But of the diuersitie of popingaies, we haue spoken sufficiently in the firste Decade: for in the rase of this large lande, Colonus him selfe brought and sent to the courte a great number of euery kinde, the whiche it was lawfull for all the people to beholde, and are yet daily brought in like manner.
    • 1628, John Gaule, The Practiqve Theorists Panegyrick. … A Sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse:
      The rase of whose skinne […] was more then the torment of their wretched Bodyes
    • 1773, “Hycke-Scorner: A Morality.”, in Thomas Hawkins, editor, The Origin of the English Drama, page 89:
      Felowes, they shall never more us withstonde, For I se them all drowned in the rase of Irlonde,
  2. A slight wound; a scratch.
  3. A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

Verb edit

rase (third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased)

  1. (obsolete) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
    • 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 1684-5. [Julian calendar]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volume I, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC, page 317:
      For was he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps razed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?
    • 1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], new edition, London: […] W. Clarke, […], published 1809, →OCLC, page 103:
      Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.
  2. (obsolete) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 25”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎[1], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
      The painefull warrier famoſed for worth,
      After a thouſand victories once foild,
      Is from the booke of honour raſed quite,
      And all the reſt forgot for which he toild: […]
    • 1660, Thomas Fuller, “Name General”, in Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, London: […] R[oger] D[aniel] for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page 17:
      Though we carry a ſimple and ſingle remembrance of our loſſes unto the grave, it being impoſſible to do other-waies (except we raze the faculty of memory Roote and Branch out of our mind) yet let us not keep any record of them with the leaſt reflection of revenge.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 361–363:
      Though of their Names in heavenly Records now / Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd / By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.
  3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
  4. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

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Noun edit

rase f

  1. dative/locative singular of rasa

Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse rasa.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]

Verb edit

rase (imperative ras, infinitive at rase, present tense raser, past tense rasede, perfect tense har raset)

  1. to rage
  2. to storm

Estonian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *rasëda.

Adjective edit

rase (genitive raseda, partitive rasedat, comparative rasedam, superlative kõige rasedam)

  1. pregnant
    Synonym: tiine

Declension edit

Declension of rase (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative rase rasedad
accusative nom.
gen. raseda
genitive rasedate
partitive rasedat rasedaid
illative rasedasse rasedatesse
rasedaisse
inessive rasedas rasedates
rasedais
elative rasedast rasedatest
rasedaist
allative rasedale rasedatele
rasedaile
adessive rasedal rasedatel
rasedail
ablative rasedalt rasedatelt
rasedailt
translative rasedaks rasedateks
rasedaiks
terminative rasedani rasedateni
essive rasedana rasedatena
abessive rasedata rasedateta
comitative rasedaga rasedatega

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rase

  1. feminine singular of ras

Verb edit

rase

  1. inflection of raser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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rase

  1. inflection of rasen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Indonesian edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Javanese ꦫꦱꦺ (rasé).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈrase/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧sé

Noun edit

rasé (first-person possessive raseku, second-person possessive rasemu, third-person possessive rasenya)

  1. small Indian civet (Viverricula indica).
    Synonyms: musang bulan, musang rase

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Italian edit

Verb edit

rase

  1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective edit

rase

  1. feminine plural of raso

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Participle edit

rāse

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

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Latvian edit

Noun edit

rase f (5th declension)

  1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)
  2. colour

Declension edit

Declension of rase (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) rase rases
accusative (akuzatīvs) rasi rases
genitive (ģenitīvs) rases rašu
dative (datīvs) rasei rasēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) rasi rasēm
locative (lokatīvs) rasē rasēs
vocative (vokatīvs) rase rases

Derived terms edit

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Italian razza and Middle French race.

Noun edit

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural raser, definite plural rasene)

  1. a race (of humankind)
  2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse rasa.

Verb edit

rase (imperative ras, present tense raser, passive rases, simple past raste, past participle rast, present participle rasende)

  1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
  2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
  3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
  4. (storm) to wreak havoc
  5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
  6. (with sammen) to collapse, cave in
Derived terms edit

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Italian razza and Middle French race.

Noun edit

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural rasar, definite plural rasane)

  1. a race (of humankind)
  2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse rasa.

Verb edit

rase (present tense rasar, past tense rasa, past participle rasa, passive infinitive rasast, present participle rasande, imperative rase/ras)

  1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
  2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
  3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
  4. (storm) to wreak havoc
  5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
  6. (with saman) to collapse, cave in
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Old Javanese edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈrase/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧sé

Noun edit

rase

  1. civet
    Synonyms: lubak, luwak

Descendants edit

  • Javanese: ꦫꦱꦺ (rasé)
    • → Indonesian: rase

Further reading edit

  • "rase" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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Alternative forms

Noun edit

rase

  1. inflection of rasa (“taste”):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Spanish edit

Verb edit

rase

  1. inflection of rasar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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