R

See also: Appendix:Variations of "r"

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Translingual

R (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Letter

R (lower case r)

The eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

R

(currency symbol) rand, national currency of South Africa.
(physics) roentgen (unit)
(physics) resistance (in electricity)
(genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any purine
(biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for arginine

Gallery

Letter styles
Capital and lowercase versions of R, in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase R in Fraktur

English

R (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Etymology 1

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

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Audio (UK) (file)
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Audio (US) (file)
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Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Homophones: or, oar, ore, are, our (in various accents)

Letter

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R (upper case, lower case r, plural Rs or R's)

The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

Number

R (upper case, lower case r)

The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviations

Noun

R

(entomology) radius
(US, politics) Republican
(monarchy) rex (“king”) or regina (“queen”); the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name
(handbells) ring
(chess) rook
(baseball, cricket) runs, the statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player
(law) the Crown, the government of a monarchy (abbreviating rex (“king”) or regina (“queen”))
R v Smith
Thursday
- 1986, Cornell University Courses of Study,^[1] page 250:
  Lecs, T R 9:05; lab, M T W R or F 1:25—4:25, or M or W 7:30—10:30 p.m.
- 2000 August, M.W. Carter, “A Comprehensive Course Timetabling and Student Scheduling System at the University of Waterloo”, in Edmund Burke and Wilhelm Erben (editors), Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling III, Springer (2001), →ISBN, page 66:
  8:30 MWF (3 x 1 hour) […] 8:30-10 TR (2 x 1.5 hours)
- 2007, W. Ted Mahavier, “Syllabus for Analysis” (Lamar University course syllabus), appendix II.A of Charles A. Coppin et al., The Moore Method: A Pathway to Learner-Centered Instruction, Mathematical Association of America (2009), →ISBN, page 201:
  Office Hours: MTWRF: 9:00–11:00, 1:30–3:00 or stop by my office anytime.

Adjective

R

(film certification) restricted
reverse
right (as opposed to left)

Afar

Letter

R

The twelfth letter in the Afar alphabet.

American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe R)

The letter R

Azerbaijani

Letter

R upper case (lower case r)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛr/
Audio (file)

Letter

R (capital, lowercase r)

The eighteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Esperanto

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The twenty-first letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ro and written in the Latin script.

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

R

Wikipedia ^et

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The eighteenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called err and written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The eighteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called är or er and written in the Latin script.

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔɛɐ̯/
Audio (file)

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The eighteenth letter of the German alphabet.

Related terms

Ido

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾ/

Letter

R (lower case r)

The eighteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

R

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

(name of letter) IPA^(key): /ˈɛrre/
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /r/

Letter

R m or f (invariable, lower case r)

The sixteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called erre and written in the Latin script.

Latin

Proper noun

R

Abbreviation of Romanus.
Abbreviation of Rufus.

References

R in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

R

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɾ]

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Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The twenty-fifth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called er and written in the Latin script.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

R

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

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Letter

R

The eighteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The eighteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /re/, /er/

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The twentieth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /r/. Preceded by P and followed by S.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /r/

Letter

R (lower case r)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

R

Wikipedia ^sl

Pronunciation

Letter

R (capital, lowercase r)

The 18th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by P and followed by S.

Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /r/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ræ/

Letter

R upper case (lower case r)

The eighth letter of the Somali alphabet, called ra and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The eighth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by D and followed by S.

Spanish

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The 19th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Turkish

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The twenty-first letter of the Turkish alphabet, called re and written in the Latin script.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ zəː˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʐəː˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ɹəː˨˩]
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Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The twenty-second letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called e-rờ or rờ and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

R (upper case, lower case r)

The eighteenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.