ra

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English[edit]

Interjection[edit]

ra

  1. Alternative spelling of rah (exclamation of encouragement.)
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 140:
      "You guys are doing great. Ra ra ra! Go get 'em, guys."

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inflection of bie.

Verb[edit]

ra

  1. it fell (off)
  2. it tumbled, flopped
  3. it struck, punched
  4. it rained (combined with shi (“rain”))
    Ra shi.
    It rained.
    (literally, “It fell rain.”)
  5. it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”))
    Ra borë.
    It snowed.
    (literally, “It fell snow.”)

Related terms[edit]

Anguthimri[edit]

Noun[edit]

ra

  1. (Mpakwithi) stomach

Verb[edit]

ra

  1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
  2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub

References[edit]

  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188

Atampaya[edit]

Verb[edit]

ra

  1. throw
  2. spill

References[edit]

  • Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 537

Borôro[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ra

  1. bone

Chuukese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun[edit]

ra

  1. they
  2. they are

Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun[edit]

ra m

  1. king

Dutch[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

  • ree (obsolete, dialectal)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch ra, from Proto-Germanic *rahō. Cognate with German Rah, Old Norse rá.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /raː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ra
  • Rhymes: -aː
  • Homophone: Rha

Noun[edit]

ra f (plural ra's, diminutive raatje n)

  1. (nautical) spar (horizontal beam or pole of a ship's mastwork)

Derived terms[edit]

Egyptian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

ra

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

Galician[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese rãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rana.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ra f (plural ras)

  1. frog

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “rãa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “rãa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “ra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “ra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “ra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French rare.

Adjective[edit]

ra

  1. rare, uncommon

References[edit]

  • Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

ra

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ら
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ラ

Malagasy[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun[edit]

ra

  1. blood

Maltese[edit]

Root
w-r-j
10 terms

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic رَأَى‎ (raʔā). An oft-cited archaism in Maltese as the verb has been displaced in most contemporary dialects (some preserved it though like the dialect of Sfax/Tunisia). The peculiar use of the imperative is similar to Maghrebi forms like راني (rāni) etc., which ultimately developed into pronouns.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)

  1. to see
  2. (imperative) look!, behold!; often construed with a pronominal suffix referring to the subject of the following context
    • c. 2015, Il-Bibbja : il-Kotba Mqaddsa, 5th edition, Valletta: Ghaqda Biblika Maltija, →OCLC, Il-Ktieb tal-Profeta Eżekjel 29:3:
      Tkellem u għid: Dan jgħid Sidi l-Mulej: Arani kontrik, ja Fargħun, sultan tal-Eġittu, il-kukkudrill il-kbir imxaħxaħ f’nofs in-Nil, li qal: ‘Tiegħi n-Nil. Jien għamiltu.’
      Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Conjugation[edit]

    Conjugation of ra
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m rajt rajt ra rajna rajtu raw
f rat
imperfect m nara tara jara naraw taraw jaraw
f tara
imperative ara araw

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ra

  1. Alternative form of raw

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

ra

  1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Moore[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ra (progressive raada)

  1. to buy

Nyunga[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

ra

  1. clear plain

References[edit]

Old English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A contraction of earlier rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, *raih, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą. The 5th-century runic form ᚱᚨᛇᚺᚨᚾ (raïhan) is possibly an ancestor of this word, but may be North Germanic instead.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rā m (nominative plural rān)

  1. roe deer, roebuck

Declension[edit]

Declension of ra (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative rā rān
accusative rān rān
genitive rān rāna
dative rān rām, rāum

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle English: ro, roo (northern ra, raa)

References[edit]

Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Alternative forms

Etymology[edit]

Probably from the pronunciation of a syllable consisting only of the letter.

Noun[edit]

ra m

  1. the Pali letter 'r'
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎[1] (in Pali), page 4; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, स, ह, ळ, ं। इति व्यञ्जन नाम होन्ति।
      Ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa, ca, cha, ja, jha, ña, ṭa, ṭha, ḍa, ḍha, ṇa, ta, tha, da, dha, na, pa, pha, ba, bha, ma, ya, ra, la, va, sa, ha, ḷa, aṃ, iti vyañjanā nāma honti.
      'k', 'kh', 'g', 'gh', 'ṅ', 'c', 'ch', 'j', 'jh', 'ñ, 'ṭ', 'ṭh', 'ḍ', 'ḍh', 'ṇ', 't', 'th', 'd', 'dh', 'n', 'p', 'ph', 'b', 'bh', 'm', 'y', 'r', 'l', 'v', 's', 'h', 'ḷ' and 'ṃ', these are the consonants by name.
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎[2] (in Pali), page 12; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      लो रस्स यथा-महासालो।
      Lo rassa yathā mahāsālo.
      'L' 'r' as in 'mahāsālo'.

Declension[edit]

Declension table of "ra" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingular
Nominative (first)ro
Accusative (second)raṃ
Instrumental (third)rena
Dative (fourth)rassa or rāya or ratthaṃ
Ablative (fifth)rasmā or ramhā or rā
Genitive (sixth)rassa
Locative (seventh)rasmiṃ or ramhi or re
Vocative (calling)ra

Synonyms[edit]

Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

ra

  1. Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da/ra).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ra (Baybayin spelling ᜇ)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r, in the Abakada alphabet.
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) ar, (in the Abecedario) ere

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Vietnamese 𦋦 (ra), from Proto-Vietic *-saː, cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] saː¹ and Muong tha.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 亇些, phonetic 個些 (MC kɑH sia) (modern SV: cá ta).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ra • (𫥧, 𦋦, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𫥨, 𬙛)

  1. to go out, to leave
    • Copy from 18th century, Urtext probably from 12th or 15th century, Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經):
      雷(Lôi)亇些(ra)礼(lưỡi)𢪀(nghỉ)曳(dài)林(trăm)由(do)旬(tuần)
      Pull out his 100 yojanas long tongue.
  2. (by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam
    vào nam, ra bắc ― to go southwards and northwards
  3. to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
    Phim này mới ra nè.
    Hey, this movie has just came out.
  4. to become, to turn into
Usage notes[edit]
  • Sometimes the verb đi (“to go”) is used for emphasis when appended to ra, forming đi ra to mean "go even further out". However, this usage may vary from dialect to dialect.
  • Ra is used after an adjective to indicate a positive development of a character or state of a person or thing.
Cô ấy dạo này trẻ ra. ― She is getting younger these days.
Antonyms[edit]

See also[edit]

Derived terms

Etymology 2[edit]

From French drap.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(classifier tấm) ra • (𬙛)

  1. bed sheet

Winnebago[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Article[edit]

ra

  1. the (definite article)

Usage notes[edit]

The article follows the noun it modifies.

References[edit]

  • John E. Koontz, Winnebago, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, page 317

Yapese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb[edit]

ra

  1. (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

Yoruba[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Determiner[edit]

ra

  1. (Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us
Notes[edit]
  • Not used by the Akure subdialect of Ekiti, which uses ria

Etymology 2[edit]

Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *là, cognate with Igala là, Olukumi la

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

rà

  1. (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

Etymology 3[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

rá

  1. to crawl

Etymology 4[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

rà

  1. to rot, to decay
    Synonym: jẹrà

Etymology 5[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Particle[edit]

ra

  1. (Ekiti) not (placed before a verb to negate it, often used after personal pronouns)
    Wẹ́ ra kú ― You will not die!

Zaghawa[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

ra

  1. and (used for people)
    adoum ra hawa ra - Adam and Eve
  2. and (after words ending in a vowel)
    Sabit da Arbaha ra - Saturday and Wednesday

Usage notes[edit]

Zaghawa conjunctions come after all words they group. Thus, Adam and Eve is 'adoum ra hawa ra', not *adoum ra hawa, as the literal English translation would be.

See also[edit]

da

References[edit]

Zhuang[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). See da for more.

Noun[edit]

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. (Wuming dialect) eye
    Synonym: da

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

ra (Sawndip forms 𫽋 or 𥅂 or ⿱彐拉 or 逻 or 啰 or ⿱找下 or 拉 or 而 or ⿰目找, 1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. to look for; to find; to search

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. to earn (money); to make (money)
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