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ran

See also: RAN, rań, rán, ràn, rắn, rån, rǎn, and rận

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɹæn/
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  • Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1Edit

VerbEdit

ran

  1. simple past tense of rin
  2. simple past tense of run
  3. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of run
    • 2012, Helen Summer, Running Crazy - Imagine Running a Marathon. Now Imagine Running Over 100 of Them. Incredible True Stories from the World’s Most Fanatical Runners. John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, no page number:
      I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

ran (uncountable)

  1. (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

Etymology 3Edit

From Old English ran; compare with Danish ran and Norwegian Bokmål ran.

NounEdit

ran (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Open robbery.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Lambarde to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ran in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

AnagramsEdit

Alemannic GermanEdit

AdjectiveEdit

ran

  1. (Uri) lanky, slender

ReferencesEdit

Arop-LokepEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. water

Further readingEdit

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

ran

  1. Alternative form of arran

See alsoEdit

ChuukeseEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. day, daylight

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse rán.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /raːn/, [ʁɑːˀn]

NounEdit

ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)

  1. open theft

InflectionEdit

Declension of ran
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ran ranet ran ranene
genitive rans ranets rans ranenes

VerbEdit

ran

  1. imperative of rane

GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Shortened form of heran.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

ran

  1. (colloquial) near, close to, over to

Further readingEdit

  • ran in Duden online

GilberteseEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Thomas Edward Dutton, ‎Darrell T. Tryon, Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World (1994)

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

ran

  1. Rōmaji transcription of らん

KarnaiEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. water

Further readingEdit

MalasangaEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. water

Further readingEdit

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

ran

  1. Nonstandard spelling of rán.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of rǎn.

Usage notesEdit

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

NamakuraEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. water

ReferenceEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse rán

NounEdit

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana or ranene)

  1. a robbery
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

ran

  1. imperative of rane

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse rán

NounEdit

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana)

  1. a robbery

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ (Russian ранний (ránnij), Polish rano).

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

rȃn (definite rȃnī, comparative rànijī, Cyrillic spelling ра̑н)

  1. early
  2. premature

DeclensionEdit

positive indefinite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative ran rana rano
genitive rana rane rana
dative ranu ranoj ranu
accusative inanimate
animate 		ran
rana 		ranu rano
vocative ran rana rano
locative ranu ranoj ranu
instrumental ranim ranom ranim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative rani rane rana
genitive ranih ranih ranih
dative ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
accusative rane rane rana
vocative rani rane rana
locative ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
instrumental ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
positive definite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative rani rana rano
genitive ranog(a) rane ranog(a)
dative ranom(u/e) ranoj ranom(u/e)
accusative inanimate
animate 		rani
ranog(a) 		ranu rano
vocative rani rana rano
locative ranom(e/u) ranoj ranom(e/u)
instrumental ranim ranom ranim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative rani rane rana
genitive ranih ranih ranih
dative ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
accusative rane rane rana
vocative rani rane rana
locative ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
instrumental ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
comparative forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative raniji ranija ranije
genitive ranijeg(a) ranije ranijeg(a)
dative ranijem(u) ranijoj ranijem(u)
accusative inanimate
animate 		raniji
ranijeg(a) 		raniju ranije
vocative raniji ranija ranije
locative ranijem(u) ranijoj ranijem(u)
instrumental ranijim ranijom ranijim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative raniji ranije ranija
genitive ranijih ranijih ranijih
dative ranijim(a) ranijim(a) ranijim(a)
accusative ranije ranije ranija
vocative raniji ranije ranija
locative ranijim(a) ranijim(a) ranijim(a)
instrumental ranijim(a) ranijim(a) ranijim(a)
superlative forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative najraniji najranija najranije
genitive najranijeg(a) najranije najranijeg(a)
dative najranijem(u) najranijoj najranijem(u)
accusative inanimate
animate 		najraniji
najranijeg(a) 		najraniju najranije
vocative najraniji najranija najranije
locative najranijem(u) najranijoj najranijem(u)
instrumental najranijim najranijom najranijim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative najraniji najranije najranija
genitive najranijih najranijih najranijih
dative najranijim(a) najranijim(a) najranijim(a)
accusative najranije najranije najranija
vocative najraniji najranije najranija
locative najranijim(a) najranijim(a) najranijim(a)
instrumental najranijim(a) najranijim(a) najranijim(a)

AntonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “ran”, in Hrvatski jezični portal, 2006–2019

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

rán (comparative ránejši, superlative nàjránejši)

  1. early

DeclensionEdit

Declension of rán (hard)
singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative rán ind
ráni def		 rána ráno
accusative nominativeinan or genitiveanim ráno ráno
genitive ránega ráne ránega
dative ránemu ráni ránemu
locative ránem ráni ránem
instrumental ránim ráno ránim
dual
masculine feminine neuter
nominative rána ráni ráni
accusative rána ráni ráni
genitive ránih ránih ránih
dative ránima ránima ránima
locative ránih ránih ránih
instrumental ránima ránima ránima
plural
masculine feminine neuter
nominative ráni ráne rána
accusative ráne ráne rána
genitive ránih ránih ránih
dative ránim ránim ránim
locative ránih ránih ránih
instrumental ránimi ránimi ránimi

Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English run.

NounEdit

ran

  1. To run
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin (in Tok Pisin), Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:14:
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Ulau-SuainEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

ran

  1. to resound; to spread widely

WelshEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. Soft mutation of rhan.
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