ran
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
ran
- simple past tense of rin
- simple past tense of run
- (nonstandard, colloquial) past participle of run
- 1731, Philippus van Limborch, Samuel Chandler, transl., The History of the Inquisition[1], volume 1, page 231:
- […] rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention, […]
- 1837, William Keary, Romanism exposed; or, Strictures on two lectures […] [2], Goddard and Brown, page 6:
- " Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ; […]
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
ran (uncountable)
Etymology 3Edit
From Old English ran; compare with Danish ran and Norwegian Bokmål ran.
NounEdit
ran (uncountable)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
ReferencesEdit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 63.
Arop-LokepEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ran
Further readingEdit
- Arop-Lokep, in The Oceanic Languages →ISBN, Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross), page 257: ran ki "his water"
- Stephen George Parker, Phonological Descriptions of Papua New Guinea Languages (2005)
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
ran
- Alternative form of arran
See alsoEdit
ChuukeseEdit
NounEdit
ran
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ran
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)
- open theft
InflectionEdit
VerbEdit
ran
- imperative of rane
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Shortened form of heran.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
ran
- (colloquial) near, close to, over to
Further readingEdit
- “ran” in Duden online
GilberteseEdit
NounEdit
ran
ReferencesEdit
- Thomas Edward Dutton, Darrell T. Tryon, Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World (1994)
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
ran
KarnaiEdit
NounEdit
ran
Further readingEdit
- John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 59
MalasangaEdit
NounEdit
ran
Further readingEdit
- John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Verna, page 59, 2012
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
ran
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
ReferencesEdit
- Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley et Meredith Osmond (eds), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, 545-2. Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, page 59
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana or ranene)
- a robbery
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
ran
- imperative of rane
ReferencesEdit
- “ran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana)
- a robbery
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “ran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rān n (nominative plural rān)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Joseph Bosworth, edited by T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1882
- T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Supplement, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1921
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ran f
NounEdit
ran n
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *ranъ (Russian ра́нний (ránnij), Polish rano).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rȃn (definite rȃnī, comparative rànijī, Cyrillic spelling ра̑н)
DeclensionEdit
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) |
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) |
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) |
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
- (early): kȁsan
ReferencesEdit
- “ran” in Hrvatski jezični portal
SloveneEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *ranъ
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rȃn (comparative ránejši, superlative nȁjránejši)
InflectionEdit
Hard | |||
---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nom. sing. | rán | rána | ráno |
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 |
Further readingEdit
- “ran”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Tok PisinEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
ran
- To run
Ulau-SuainEdit
NounEdit
ran
ReferencesEdit
- Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ran
WelshEdit
NounEdit
ran
- Soft mutation of rhan.
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
rhan | ran | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Welsh RomaniEdit
NounEdit
ran f
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “ran” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.