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ra

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ra"

English edit

Interjection edit

ra

  1. Alternative spelling of rah (exclamation of encouragement.)
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 140:
      "You guys are doing great. Ra ra ra! Go get 'em, guys."

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Inflection of bie.

Verb edit

ra

  1. it fell (off)
  2. it tumbled, flopped
  3. it struck, punched
  4. it rained (combined with shi (“rain”))
    Ra shi.
    It rained.
    (literally, “It fell rain.”)
  5. it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”))
    Ra borë.
    It snowed.
    (literally, “It fell snow.”)

Related terms edit

Anguthimri edit

Noun edit

ra

  1. (Mpakwithi) stomach

Verb edit

ra

  1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
  2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub

References edit

  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188

Atampaya edit

Verb edit

ra

  1. throw
  2. spill

References edit

  • Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 537

Borôro edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ra

  1. bone

Chuukese edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronoun edit

ra

  1. they
  2. they are

Dalmatian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun edit

ra m

  1. king

Dutch edit

 
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Alternative forms edit

  • ree (obsolete, dialectal)

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch ra, from Proto-Germanic *rahō. Cognate with German Rah, Old Norse rá.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /raː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ra
  • Rhymes: -aː
  • Homophone: Rha

Noun edit

ra f (plural ra's, diminutive raatje n)

  1. (nautical) spar (horizontal beam or pole of a ship's mastwork)

Derived terms edit

Egyptian edit

Romanization edit

ra

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

Galician edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese rãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rana.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ra f (plural ras)

  1. frog

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “rãa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “rãa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “ra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “ra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “ra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Haitian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French rare.

Adjective edit

ra

  1. rare, uncommon

References edit

  • Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

ra

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ら
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ラ

Malagasy edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun edit

ra

  1. blood

Maltese edit

Root
w-r-j
10 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic رَأَى‎ (raʔā). An oft-cited archaism in Maltese as the verb has been displaced in most contemporary dialects (some preserved it though like the dialect of Sfax/Tunisia). The peculiar use of the imperative is similar to Maghrebi forms like راني (rāni) etc., which ultimately developed into pronouns.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)

  1. to see
  2. (imperative) look!, behold!; often construed with a pronominal suffix referring to the subject of the following context
    • c. 2015, Il-Bibbja : il-Kotba Mqaddsa, 5th edition, Valletta: Ghaqda Biblika Maltija, →OCLC, Il-Ktieb tal-Profeta Eżekjel 29:3:
      Tkellem u għid: Dan jgħid Sidi l-Mulej: Arani kontrik, ja Fargħun, sultan tal-Eġittu, il-kukkudrill il-kbir imxaħxaħ f’nofs in-Nil, li qal: ‘Tiegħi n-Nil. Jien għamiltu.’
      New International Version translation: Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, “The Nile belongs to me;

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of ra
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m rajt rajt ra rajna rajtu raw
f rat
imperfect m nara tara jara naraw taraw jaraw
f tara
imperative ara araw

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Adjective edit

ra

  1. Alternative form of raw

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

ra

  1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Moore edit

Etymology edit

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ra (progressive raada)

  1. to buy

Nyunga edit

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Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

ra

  1. clear plain

References edit

Old English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

A contraction of earlier rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, *raih, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą. The 5th-century runic form ᚱᚨᛇᚺᚨᚾ (raïhan) is possibly an ancestor of this word, but may be North Germanic instead.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rā m (nominative plural rān)

  1. roe deer, roebuck

Declension edit

Declension of ra (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative rā rān
accusative rān rān
genitive rān rāna
dative rān rām, rāum

Descendants edit

  • Middle English: ro, roo (northern ra, raa)

References edit

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative forms

Etymology edit

Probably from the pronunciation of a syllable consisting only of the letter.

Noun edit

ra m

  1. the Pali letter 'r'
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎[1], page 4; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, स, ह, ळ, ं। इति व्यञ्जन नाम होन्ति।
      Ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa, ca, cha, ja, jha, ña, ṭa, ṭha, ḍa, ḍha, ṇa, ta, tha, da, dha, na, pa, pha, ba, bha, ma, ya, ra, la, va, sa, ha, ḷa, aṃ, iti vyañjanā nāma honti.
      'k', 'kh', 'g', 'gh', 'ṅ', 'c', 'ch', 'j', 'jh', 'ñ, 'ṭ', 'ṭh', 'ḍ', 'ḍh', 'ṇ', 't', 'th', 'd', 'dh', 'n', 'p', 'ph', 'b', 'bh', 'm', 'y', 'r', 'l', 'v', 's', 'h', 'ḷ' and 'ṃ', these are the consonants by name.
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎[2], page 12; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      लो रस्स यथा-महासालो।
      Lo rassa yathā mahāsālo.
      'L' from 'r' as in 'mahāsālo'.

Declension edit

Declension table of "ra" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingular
Nominative (first)ro
Accusative (second)raṃ
Instrumental (third)rena
Dative (fourth)rassa or rāya or ratthaṃ
Ablative (fifth)rasmā or ramhā or rā
Genitive (sixth)rassa
Locative (seventh)rasmiṃ or ramhi or re
Vocative (calling)ra

Synonyms edit

Scots edit

Determiner edit

ra

  1. (colloquial) Glaswegian form of the

Usage notes edit

  • Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.

Sumerian edit

Romanization edit

ra

  1. Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da/ra).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ra (Baybayin spelling ᜇ)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r, in the Abakada alphabet.
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) ar, (in the Abecedario) ere

See also edit

Further reading edit

Vietnamese edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Vietnamese 𦋦 (ra), from Proto-Vietic *-saː, cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] saː¹ and Muong tha.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 亇些, phonetic 個些 (MC kaH sjae) (modern SV: cá ta).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ra • (𫥧, 𦋦, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𫥨, 𬙛)

  1. to go out, to leave
    • Copy from 18th century, Urtext probably from 12th or 15th century, Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經):
      雷(Lôi)亇些(ra)礼(lưỡi)𢪀(nghỉ)曳(dài)林(trăm)由(do)旬(tuần)
      Pull out his 100 yojanas long tongue.
  2. (by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam
    vào nam, ra bắc ― to go southwards and northwards
  3. to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
    Phim này mới ra nè.
    Hey, this movie has just came out.
  4. to become, to turn into
Usage notes edit
  • Sometimes the verb đi (“to go”) is used for emphasis when appended to ra, forming đi ra to mean "go even further out". However, this usage may vary from dialect to dialect.
  • Ra is used after an adjective to indicate a positive development of a character or state of a person or thing.
Cô ấy dạo này trẻ ra. ― She is getting younger these days.
Antonyms edit

See also edit

Derived terms

Etymology 2 edit

From French drap.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(classifier tấm) ra • (𬙛)

  1. bed sheet

Winnebago edit

Etymology edit

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

Article edit

ra

  1. the (definite article)

Usage notes edit

The article follows the noun it modifies.

References edit

  • John E. Koontz, Winnebago, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, page 317

Yapese edit

Etymology edit

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

Verb edit

ra

  1. (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

Yoruba edit

Etymology 1 edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Determiner edit

ra

  1. (Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us
Notes edit
  • Not used by the Akure subdialect of Ekiti, which uses ria

Etymology 2 edit

Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *là, cognate with Igala là, Olukumi la

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

rà

  1. (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

Etymology 3 edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

rá

  1. to crawl

Etymology 4 edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

rà

  1. to rot, to decay
    Synonym: jẹrà

Etymology 5 edit

Pronunciation edit

Particle edit

ra

  1. (Ekiti) not (placed before a verb to negate it, often used after personal pronouns)
    Wẹ́ ra kú ― You will not die!

Zaghawa edit

Pronunciation edit

Conjunction edit

ra

  1. and (used for people)
    adoum ra hawa ra - Adam and Eve
  2. and (after words ending in a vowel)
    Sabit da Arbaha ra - Saturday and Wednesday

Usage notes edit

Zaghawa conjunctions come after all words they group. Thus, Adam and Eve is 'adoum ra hawa ra', not *adoum ra hawa, as the literal English translation would be.

See also edit

da

References edit

Zhuang edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). See da for more.

Noun edit

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. (Wuming dialect) eye
    Synonym: da

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Tai *kraᴬ (“to seek”).

Verb edit

ra (Sawndip forms 𫽋 or 𥅂 or ⿱彐拉 or 逻 or 啰 or ⿱找下 or 拉 or 而 or ⿰目找, 1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. to look for; to find; to search

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. to earn (money); to make (money)
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