raven

See also Raven

English

Wikipedia

A raven (bird).

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪvən

Etymology 1

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 ‘he laments, implores’).

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) (ghuraab) m., زاغ (ar) (zaagh) m. Armenian: ագռավ (hy) (agṙav) Basque: erroi Belarusian: крумкач Bosnian: gavran (bs) m. Breton: bran m. Bulgarian: гарван (bg) (garvan) Catalan: corb 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) Croatian: gavran (hr) 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 German: Rabe (de) m., Kolkrabe (de) m. Greek: Ancient: κόραξ (koraks) Modern: κόρακας (el) (kórakas) m., κοράκι (el) (koráki) n. Hebrew: עורב (he) Hungarian: holló (hu) Icelandic: hrafn (is), krummi (is) Indonesian: gagak besar Irish: fiach (ga) m., fiach dubh (ga) m. Italian: corvo (it) m. Japanese: 渡り鴉 (ワタリガラス, watari-garasu), 大鴉 (オオガラス, oo-garasu) Kannada: ಕಾರ್ಗೊರಲಕಾಗೆ (kn) Korean: 큰까마귀 (ko) Kurdish: داڵ Kyrgyz: карга (ky) (karga) Ladin: corf Latgalian: krauklis m.

Latin: corvus (la) m. Latvian: krauklis Lithuanian: kranklys (lt) m. Low Saxon: Raav’ m. Lower Sorbian: wron, rapak Luxembourgish: Ramm (lb) f. Macedonian: гавран (gavran) Maltese: għarab (mt) Manx: feeagh (gv) m., feeagh mooar (gv) m. Marathi: डोमेकाव्ळा (dome-kāvllā) Montagnais: kakatshu Navajo: zhį́ʼii Norwegian: ravn (no) Occitan: còrb Old Church Slavonic: вранъ (vranŭ) m. Old Irish: bran m., fiach m., trogan m. Persian: زاغ (fa) (zâq) 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, crobu m. Scottish Gaelic: fitheach (gd) m. Serbian: гавран (sr) (gavran) Slovak: havran (sk) m., krkavec (sk) m. Slovene: krokar m., vran m. (poetically) Spanish: cuervo (es) m. Swedish: korp (sv), ramn (sv) c. Turkish: kuzgun (tr) Ukrainian: ворон (uk) (voron), крук (uk) (kruk) Upper Sorbian: rapak Vilamovian: row Volapük: (male or female) rab (vo), (male) hirab (vo), (female) jirab (vo), (male or female offspring, young) rabül (vo), (young male offspring) hirabül (vo), (young female offspring) jirabül (vo) 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

• raven-black
• raven-haired
• raven standard

Translations

of the color of the raven; jet-black

Dutch: ravezwart French: noir comme un corbeau German: rabenschwarz (de) n.

Greek: κορακίσιος (el) (korakísios) Italian: corvino (it) Norwegian: ravnsort (no), ravnsvart (no)

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/, 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

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 the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 [1]

Anagrams

• Verna

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːvən

Verb

raven (weak in -d)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of raven

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