raven

See also Raven

English

Wikipedia

A raven (bird).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rāʹvən, IPA: /ˈreɪvən/, X-SAMPA: /"reIv@n/

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• Rhymes: -eɪvən

Etymology 1

From Old English hræfn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz (compare Dutch raaf, German Rabe, Danish ravn), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂- (compare Middle Irish crú, Latin corvus, Lithuanian šárka (“magpie”), Serbo-Croatian svrȁka ‘id.’, Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax)), from *ḱer, *ḱor (compare Latin crepare ‘to creak, crack’, Sanskrit kṛ́patē).

Noun

raven (plural ravens)

1. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.

Translations

bird

• Albanian: korb (sq) m
• Arabic: غراب (ar) (ġurāb) m, زاغ (ar) (zāġ) m
• Armenian: ագռավ (hy) (agṙav)
• Aromanian: corbu (rup)
• Basque: erroi (eu)
• Belarusian: крумкач (be) (krumkač)
• Breton: bran (br) m
• Bulgarian: гарван (bg) (garvan)
• Catalan: corb (ca) m
• Chechen: хьаргIа
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 烏鴉, simpl. 乌鸦 (pinyin: wūyā), trad. 渡鴉, simpl. 渡鸦 (pinyin: dùyā), trad. 烏黑, simpl. 乌黑 (pinyin: wūhēi)

• Czech: krkavec (cs)
• Danish: ravn (da)
• Dutch: raaf (nl) m
• Esperanto: korvo (eo), korako (eo)
• Estonian: kaaren (et), ronk (et), korp (et)
• Ewe: akpaviã
• Faroese: ravnur (fo), krunkur (fo), gorpur (fo)
• Finnish: korppi (fi)
• French: corbeau (fr) m
• Friulian: corvat
• Galician: corvo carnazal (gl) m
• Georgian: ყორანი (ka) (qorani)
• German: (♂♀) Rabe (de) m, (♂) Rabenmännchen (de) n, (♀) Rabenweibchen (de) n, (♂♀) Rabenjunges (de) m, (♂♀) Rabenbaby (de) m, (♂♀) Kolkrabe (de) m, (♂) Kolkrabenmännchen (de) n, (♀) Kolkrabenweibchen (de) n, (♂♀) Kolkrabenjunges (de) m, (♂♀) Kolkrabenbaby (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌽𐍃 (hrabns) m
• Greek: κόρακας (el) (kórakas) m, κοράκι (el) (koráki) n

  Ancient: κόραξ (koraks)

• Hebrew: עורב (he) (ʿórev)
• Hungarian: holló (hu)
• Icelandic: hrafn (is) m
• Indonesian: gagak besar (id)
• Ingrian: korppi
• Irish: fiach (ga) m, fiach dubh (ga) m

  Old Irish: bran m, fïach m, trogan m

• Italian: corvo (it) m
• Japanese: 渡り鴉 (ja) (ワタリガラス, watari-garasu), 大鴉 (ja) (オオガラス, oo-garasu)
• Kannada: ಕಾರ್ಗೊರಲಕಾಗೆ (kn)
• Korean: 큰까마귀 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: داڵ (ku)

• Kyrgyz: карга (ky) (karga)
• Ladin: corf

• Latgalian: krauklis m
• Latin: corvus (la) m
• Latvian: krauklis (lv)
• Lithuanian: kranklys (lt) m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Raav f, Roov f, Raw m

• Lower Sorbian: wron, rapak
• Luxembourgish: Ramm (lb) f
• Macedonian: гавран (mk) (gavran)
• Maltese: għarab (mt)
• Manx: feeagh (gv) m, feeagh mooar (gv) m
• Marathi: डोमेकाव्ळा (mr) (dome-kāvllā)
• Montagnais: kakatshu
• Navajo: zhį́ʼii
• Norwegian: ravn (no)
• Occitan: còrb (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: вранъ (vranŭ) m
• Persian: زاغ (fa) (zâq), کلاغ (fa) (kalāq), غراب (fa) (qorāb)
• Polish: kruk (pl) m
• Portuguese: corvo (pt) m
• Romani: kakarachi m, kakarachka f
• Romanian: corb (ro)
• Romansch: corv grond (rm), corv (rm) m
• Russian: ворон (ru) (vóron) m
• Sami: gáranas, bulddogas, garjá
• Sardinian: corbu (sc), crobu (sc) m, corvu (sc), colbu (sc), colvu (sc)
• Scots: corbie
• Scottish Gaelic: fitheach (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гавран (sh) f

  Roman: gavran (sh) f

• Slovak: havran (sk) m, krkavec (sk) m
• Slovene: krokar (sl) m, vran (sl) m (poetic)
• Spanish: cuervo (es) m
• Swedish: korp (sv)
• Turkish: kuzgun (tr)
• Ukrainian: ворон (uk) (voron), крук (uk) (kruk)
• Upper Sorbian: rapak (hsb)
• Vilamovian: row
• Volapük: (♂♀) rab (vo), (♂) hirab (vo), (♀) jirab (vo), (♂♀ offspring) rabül (vo), (♂ offspring) hirabül (vo), (♀ offspring) jirabül (vo)
• Votic: ronka
• Welsh: cigfran (cy)
• West Frisian: raven (fy) c

Adjective

raven (not comparable)

1. Of the color of the raven; jet-black

   raven curls

   raven darkness

   She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.

Derived terms

• nonraven
• raven-black
• raven-haired
• ravenhood
• raven standard
• ravenous
• ravenously
• ravenousness

Translations

of the color of the raven; jet-black

• Dutch: ravezwart (nl)
• Esperanto: korva (eo)
• French: noir comme un corbeau (fr)
• German: rabenschwarz (de)
• Greek: κορακίσιος (el) (korakísios), κορακί (el) (korakí)

• Italian: corvino (it)
• Norwegian: ravnsort (no), ravnsvart (no)
• Swedish: korpsvart (sv), ramsvart (sv)
• Volapük: rabablägik (vo)

Etymology 2

From Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapina (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: răvʹən, IPA: /ˈrævən/, X-SAMPA: /"r{v@n/
• Rhymes: -ævən

Noun

raven (plural ravens)

1. Rapine; rapacity.
2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Translations

rapine; rapacity

• Portuguese: rapina (pt) f, voraz (pt) m and f

prey; plunder; food obtained by violence

• German: Beute (de) f

Verb

raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)

1. (archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
2. To devour with great eagerness.
3. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

   The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.

Related terms

• ravener
• ravening
• ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

External links

• Raven on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Corvus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Corvus (genus)

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• “raven” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001). [1]

Anagrams

• Verna

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːvən

Verb

raven

1. to (hold a) rave, to party wildly

Conjugation

Conjugation of raven (weak)

infinitive	raven
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	rave	ravede
2nd person singular	ravet	ravede
3rd person singular	ravet	ravede
plural	raven	raveden
subjunctive sing.1	rave	ravede
subjunctive plur.1	raven	raveden
imperative sing.	rave
imperative plur.1	ravet
participles	ravend	(hebben) geraved
1) Archaic.

Noun

raven

1. plural form of raaf

Anagrams

• ervan, varen

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Slovene

Adjective

raven

1. even

Declension

Declension of raven (hard)

singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	raven ind ravni def	ravna	ravno
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	ravno	ravno
genitive	ravnega	ravne	ravnega
dative	ravnemu	ravni	ravnemu
locative	ravnem	ravni	ravnem
instrumental	ravnim	ravno	ravnim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ravna	ravni	ravni
accusative	ravna	ravni	ravni
genitive	ravnih	ravnih	ravnih
dative	ravnima	ravnima	ravnima
locative	ravnih	ravnih	ravnih
instrumental	ravnima	ravnima	ravnima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ravni	ravne	ravna
accusative	ravne	ravne	ravna
genitive	ravnih	ravnih	ravnih
dative	ravnim	ravnim	ravnim
locative	ravnih	ravnih	ravnih
instrumental	ravnimi	ravnimi	ravnimi