raža

See also: raza, rază, and ražā

Latvian

From an earlier *rad-yā, from the same stem as rast (“to find”) (< *rad-ti; q.v.). The original meaning was “blossoming, development”. The modern meaning results from 19th-century (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian influence: writers like J. Alunāns and K. Valdemārs defined it in comparison to Russian урожай (urožaj) and German Ertrag. Cognates include Proto-Slavic *uroďajь ((deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian урожай (urožaj), Ukrainian уро́жай (uróžaj), уро́жа (uróža).^[1]

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raža f (4th declension)

harvest, yield (production obtained from plantations, gardens, less often herds)
bagāta, laba raža ― rich, good harvest

slikta raža ― bad harvest

jauna raža ― new harvest

rudzu, kartupeļu, ābolu raža ― rye, potato, apple harvest

novākt ražu ― to harvest (lit. to gather, to reap the harvest)
(figuratively, of people) oeuvre, production (body of work, especially artistic, intellectual)
latviešu stāstu raža ― harvest (= production) of Latvian stories

bagāta un daudzpusīga ir Anatola Fransa romānu raža ― rich and diversified is Anatole France's novel harvest (= oeuvre)

Declension of raža (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	raža	ražas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	ražu	ražas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	ražas	ražu
dative (datīvs)	ražai	ražām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	ražu	ražām
locative (lokatīvs)	ražā	ražās
vocative (vokatīvs)	raža	ražas

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “raža”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN