ran

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

Contents

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

Verb

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 2

Noun

ran (uncountable)

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

Etymology 3

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

Noun

ran (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Open robbery.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• Arn, NRA, RNA

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Alemannic German

Adjective

ran

1. (Uri) lanky, slender

References

• “ran” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 63.

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Arop-Lokep

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑn/, [ˈrɑn]

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• 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)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈran/

Adverb

ran

1. Alternative form of arran

See also

• ran de

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Chuukese

Noun

ran

1. day, daylight

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːn/, [ʁɑːˀn]

Noun

ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)

1. open theft

Inflection

Declension of ran

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

Verb

ran

1. imperative of rane

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German

Etymology

Shortened form of heran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʁan]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: rann

Adverb

ran

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

Further reading

• ran in Duden online

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Gilbertese

Noun

ran

1. water

References

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

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Japanese

Romanization

ran

1. Rōmaji transcription of らん

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Karnai

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 59

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Malasanga

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Verna, page 59, 2012

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Mandarin

Romanization

ran

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

Usage notes

• 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.

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Namakura

Noun

ran

1. water

References

• 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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rán

Noun

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

1. a robbery

Derived terms

• bankran

Related terms

• rane

Etymology 2

Verb

ran

1. imperative of rane

References

• “ran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rán

Noun

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

1. a robbery

Derived terms

• bankran

References

• “ran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ran/

Noun

ran f

1. genitive plural of rana

Noun

ran n

1. genitive plural of rano

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /râːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

Adjective

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

1. early
2. premature

Declension

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)

Antonyms

• (early): kȁsan

References

• “ran” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ráːn/

Adjective

rȃn (comparative ránejši, superlative nȁjránejši)

1. early

Inflection

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

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English run.

Noun

ran

1. To run
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:14:

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Ulau-Suain

Noun

ran

1. water

References

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

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹaːŋ˧˧]

Verb

ran

1. to resound; to spread widely

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Welsh

Noun

ran

1. Soft mutation of rhan.