See also: Ran, RAN, rán, Rán, rań, ràn, rắn, rằn, rǎn, and rận

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɹæn/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1Edit

VerbEdit

ran

  1. simple past tense of run
  2. simple past tense of rin
  3. (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 ; []
    • 2012 March 5, Helen Summer, Running Crazy[3], John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 209:
      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.

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

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. genitive plural of rána

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse rán.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /raːn/, [ʁɑːˀn]

NounEdit

ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)

  1. open theft

InflectionEdit

VerbEdit

ran

  1. imperative of rane

GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Shortened form of heran.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

ran

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

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • ran” in Duden online
  • ran” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

GilberteseEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

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

Haitian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French rang.

NounEdit

ran

  1. row, line
  2. rank, position

ReferencesEdit

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

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

ReferencesEdit

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

Old EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

rān n (nominative plural rān)

  1. unlawful seizure of property; robbery

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

  • IPA(key): /ran/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: ran

NounEdit

ran f

  1. genitive plural of rana

NounEdit

ran n

  1. genitive plural of rano

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. early
  2. premature

DeclensionEdit

AntonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • ran” in Hrvatski jezični portal

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

rȃn (comparative ránejši, superlative nȁjránejši)

  1. early

InflectionEdit

Hard
masculine feminine neuter
nom. sing. rán rána ráno
singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative rán ind
ráni def
rána ráno
genitive ránega ráne ránega
dative ránemu ráni ránemu
accusative nominativeinan or
genitive
anim
ráno ráno
locative ránem ráni ránem
instrumental ránim ráno ránim
dual
masculine feminine neuter
nominative rána ráni ráni
genitive ránih ránih ránih
dative ránima ránima ránima
accusative rána ráni ráni
locative ránih ránih ránih
instrumental ránima ránima ránima
plural
masculine feminine neuter
nominative ráni ráne rána
genitive ránih ránih ránih
dative ránim ránim ránim
accusative ráne ráne rána
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

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EtymologyEdit

From English run.

NounEdit

ran

  1. To run
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:14:
      Nem bilong namba 3 wara em Taigris na em i ran i go long hap sankamap bilong kantri Asiria. Na nem bilong namba 4 wara em Yufretis.
      →New International Version translation

Ulau-SuainEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

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

VietnameseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 波散 (MC puɑ sɑnX) (modern SV: ba tản).

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

ran

  1. to resound; to spread widely

WelshEdit

NounEdit

ran

  1. 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

  1. rod, wand
  2. fishing rod

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • ran” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.