rase

See also: rasé, rasë, rašė, and řase

English

Etymology

From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.

Pronunciation

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• enPR: rāz, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪz/
• Homophones: raise, rays, raze, rehs, réis, res
• Rhymes: -eɪz

Noun

rase (plural rases)

1. (obsolete) A scratching out, or erasure.
   • 1612, Pietro Martire “d'” Anghiera, De Novo Orbe, Or the Historie of the West Indies, page 89:

     But of the diuersitie of popingaies, we haue spoken sufficiently in the firste Decade: for in the rase of this large lande, Colonus him selfe brought and sent to the courte a great number of euery kinde, the whiche it was lawfull for all the people to beholde, and are yet daily brought in like manner.

   • 1628, John Gaule, The Practiqve Theorists Panegyrick. … A Sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse

     The rase of whose skinne […] was more then the torment of their wretched Bodyes

   • 1773, “Hycke-Scorner: A Morality.”, in Thomas Hawkins, editor, The Origin of the English Drama, page 89:

     Felowes, they shall never more us withstonde, For I se them all drowned in the rase of Irlonde,

2. A slight wound; a scratch.
3. A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

Verb

rase (third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased)

1. (obsolete) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
   • 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 1684-5. [Julian calendar]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume I, 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567, page 317:

     For was he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps razed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?

   • 1786, [William Beckford], [Samuel Henley], transl., An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], new edition, London: […] W. Clarke, […], published 1809, OCLC 30959801, page 103:

     Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.

2. (obsolete) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 25”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎^[1], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     The painefull warrier famoſed for worth,
     After a thouſand victories once foild,
     Is from the booke of honour raſed quite,
     And all the reſt forgot for which he toild: […]

   • 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times:

     Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 361–363:

     Though of their Names in heavenly Records now / Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd / By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.

3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume I, new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361, page 58:

     […] till Troy were by their brave hands rac'd, / They would not turn home: […]

4. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, reas, sare, sear, sera

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrasɛ]

Noun

rase f

1. dative/locative singular of rasa

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rasa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]

Verb

rase (imperative ras, infinitive at rase, present tense raser, past tense rasede, perfect tense har raset)

1. to rage
2. to storm

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Estonian

Adjective

rase (genitive raseda, partitive rasedat, comparative rasedam, superlative kõige rasedam)

1. pregnant

   Synonym: tiine

Declension

Inflection of rase (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	rase	rasedad
accusative	raseda	rasedad
genitive	raseda	rasedate
partitive	rasedat	rasedaid
illative	rasedasse	rasedatesse rasedaisse
inessive	rasedas	rasedates rasedais
elative	rasedast	rasedatest rasedaist
allative	rasedale	rasedatele rasedaile
adessive	rasedal	rasedatel rasedail
ablative	rasedalt	rasedatelt rasedailt
translative	rasedaks	rasedateks rasedaiks
terminative	rasedani	rasedateni
essive	rasedana	rasedatena
abessive	rasedata	rasedateta
comitative	rasedaga	rasedatega

Anagrams

• Ares
• aser
• raes
• reas

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaz/

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Adjective

rase

1. feminine singular of ras

Verb

rase

1. inflection of raser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• ares, Arès, sera

Further reading

• “rase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aːzə

Verb

rase

1. inflection of rasen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ꦫꦱꦺ (rasé).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrase/
• Hyphenation: ra‧sé

Noun

rasé (first-person possessive raseku, second-person possessive rasemu, third-person possessive rasenya)

1. small Indian civet (Viverricula indica).

   Synonyms: musang bulan, musang rase

Coordinate terms

• binturung
• dedes
• linsang
• luak
• luwak
• musang
• sigung
• teledu

 

Further reading

• “rase” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Verb

rase

1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective

rase

1. feminine plural of raso

Anagrams

• Ares, arse, resa, sera

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Latin

Participle

rāse

1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

References

• rase in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Latvian

Noun

rase f (5th declension)

1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)
2. colour

Declension

Declension of rase (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	rase	rases
accusative (akuzatīvs)	rasi	rases
genitive (ģenitīvs)	rases	rašu
dative (datīvs)	rasei	rasēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	rasi	rasēm
locative (lokatīvs)	rasē	rasēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	rase	rases

Derived terms

• rasists

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Italian razza and Middle French race.

Noun

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural raser, definite plural rasene)

1. a race (of humankind)
2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rasa.

Verb

rase (imperative ras, present tense raser, passive rases, simple past raste, past participle rast, present participle rasende)

1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
4. (storm) to wreak havoc
5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
6. (with sammen) to collapse, cave in

Derived terms

• raseri

References

• “rase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rase_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “rase_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Italian razza and Middle French race.

Noun

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural rasar, definite plural rasane)

1. a race (of humankind)
2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rasa.

Verb

rase (present tense rasar, past tense rasa, past participle rasa, passive infinitive rasast, present participle rasande, imperative rase/ras)

1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
4. (storm) to wreak havoc
5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
6. (with saman) to collapse, cave in

Alternative forms

• rasa

Derived terms

• raseri

References

• “rase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀭𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• रसे (Devanagari script)
• রসে (Bengali script)
• රසෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ရသေ (Burmese script)
• รเส or ระเส (Thai script)
• ᩁᩈᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ຣເສ or ຣະເສ (Lao script)
• រសេ (Khmer script)

Noun

rase

1. inflection of rasa (“taste”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

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Spanish

Verb

rase

1. inflection of rasar:
   1. first-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative