ramat
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ramada (“a switch used to herd animals”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [rəˈmat]
- IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [raˈmat]
Audio (Barcelona): (file) - Rhymes: -at
Noun
[edit]ramat m (plural ramats)
- flock or a herd of grazing animals
- (figuratively, Christianity) pastor’s flock
- multitude
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ramat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “ramat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “ramat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “ramat”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
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[edit]Verb
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