rand

See also: Rand, RAND, and rând

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹænd/

  • Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

Noun

rand (plural rands)

1. (obsolete, now dialect) The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
2. (obsolete, now dialect) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
   • 1621 (first performance)​, John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins

3. (dialect) A border, edge or rim.

   At the wald's rand.

4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.

Noun

rand (plural rands or rand)

1. a rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

Translations

a rocky slope

• Bulgarian: склон (bg) m (sklon)

numismatics of South Africa

• Afrikaans: rand (af)
• Arabic: رَانْد‎ m (rand)
• Bulgarian: ранд m (rand)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘭特 (zh), 兰特 (zh) (lántè)

• Danish: rand (da) c
• German: Rand (de) m
• Greek: ραντ n (rant)
• Hindi: रेंड (reṇḍ)
• Japanese: ランド (rando)

• Korean: 랜드 (raendeu)
• Malay: rand
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rand (no) m

  Nynorsk: rand m

• Portuguese: rand (pt) m
• Russian: ранд (ru) m (rand)
• Swahili: randi

See also

• Wikipedia article on the rand

Etymology 3

See rant.

Verb

rand (third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed)

1. (obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • J. Webster

     I wept, […] and raved, randed, and railed.

Anagrams

• DNAR, DNRA, Nard, andr-, darn, nard, rDNA, rdna

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rand, from Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɐnt/

Noun

rand (plural rande or rand)

1. edge, border
2. rand (numismatics)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: rand
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

rand m (plural randen, diminutive randje n)

1. edge, brink, rim

Derived terms

• bosrand
• dakrand
• grasrand
• randcrimineel
• randdebiel
• randfiguur
• rouwrand
• Randstad
• stoeprand

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rand
• → Papiamentu: rant

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Estonian

Etymology

From either Proto-Balto-Slavic *kranta or Proto-Norse [script needed] (*stranđa). Compare German Strand (“beach”), Lithuanian krantas (“beach, shore”) and Finnish ranta (“shore, beach, bank”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈrɑnd̥/

Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

1. beach

Declension

Declension of rand (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	rand	rannad
genitive	ranna	randade
partitive	randa	rande / randasid
illative	randa / rannasse	randadesse / rannesse
inessive	rannas	randades / rannes
elative	rannast	randadest / rannest
allative	rannale	randadele / rannele
adessive	rannal	randadel / rannel
ablative	rannalt	randadelt / rannelt
translative	rannaks	randadeks / ranneks
terminative	rannani	randadeni
essive	rannana	randadena
abessive	rannata	randadeta
comitative	rannaga	randadega

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French

Noun

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (currency)

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Ludian

Etymology

Related to Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand

1. shore

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic رَنْد‎ (rand).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rant/

Noun

rand m (collective, singulative randa, paucal randiet)

1. laurel (Laurus nobilis)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rǫnd.

Noun

rand f or m (definite singular randa or randen, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. edge
2. brim (e.g. of a glass)

Derived terms

• randhav

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand (named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district)

Noun

rand m (definite singular randen, indefinite plural rand, definite plural randene)

1. rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rǫnd.

Noun

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. stripe

   med lette Smaasky, lagd i langa Render

   with small light clouds laid in long stripes

2. type, nature, tendency (to do something)
3. brim (e.g. of a glass)
4. edge

Usage notes

Although Old Norse rǫnd meant edge, the Norwegian word traditionally lacks that meaning.

Derived terms

• randhav

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand, named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district.

Noun

rand m (plural randen)

1. rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

Etymology 3

Noun

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural rander, definite plural randene)

1. mantelpiece

References

• “rand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “rand”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

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Old English

Alternative forms

• rond

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō, from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Old Norse rǫnd (“edge, rim; (poetic) shield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑnd/

Noun

rand m (nominative plural randas)

1. outer part of something: edge, brink, rim, margin
2. (poetic) shield or the boss of a shield

Derived terms

• randbēag

Descendants

• English: rand

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Portuguese

Noun

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (numismatics unit of South Africa)

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse rǫnd, cognate with Icelandic rönd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrand/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

rand c

1. edge, border
2. stripe, streak

Declension

Declension of rand
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	rand	randen	ränder	ränderna
Genitive	rands	randens	ränders	rändernas

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Veps

Etymology

Related to Estonian rand and Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand

1. coast, shore
2. beach
3. end, edge, boundary
4. land, country

Inflection

Inflection of rand
nominative sing.	rand
genitive sing.	randan
partitive sing.	randad
partitive plur.	randoid
	singular	plural
nominative	rand	randad
accusative	randan	randad
genitive	randan	randoiden
partitive	randad	randoid
essive-instructive	randan	randoin
translative	randaks	randoikš
inessive	randas	randoiš
elative	randaspäi	randoišpäi
illative	?	randoihe
adessive	randal	randoil
ablative	randalpäi	randoilpäi
allative	randale	randoile
abessive	randata	randoita
comitative	randanke	randoidenke
prolative	randadme	randoidme
approximative I	randanno	randoidenno
approximative II	randannoks	randoidennoks
egressive	randannopäi	randoidennopäi
terminative I	?	randoihesai
terminative II	randalesai	randoilesai
terminative III	randassai	—
additive I	?	randoihepäi
additive II	randalepäi	randoilepäi

Derived terms

• randaline
• randatoi
• randišt
• kodirand
• kül'bendrand
• randird

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “берег, край, сторона”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Võro

Etymology

Related to Estonian rand and Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

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2. beach, shore

Inflection

Inflection of rand

	singular	plural
nominative	rand	rannaq
accusative	ranna	rannaq
genitive	ranna	randõ
partitive	randa	randõ
illative	randa	randõ randõhe
inessive	rannan rannahn	rannõn rannõhn
elative	rannast	rannõst
allative	rannalõ	rannõlõ
adessive	rannal	rannõl
ablative	rannalt	rannõlt
translative	rannas	rannõs
terminative	rannaniq	rannõniq
abessive	rannaldaq	rannõldaq
comitative	rannagaq	randõgaq

Synonyms

• viiviir'

Derived terms

• Elevandiluurand

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Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑːn/, /rɒnː/, /ræ̃ːt/, /rɑ̃ːt/, /rẽːd/

  Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rǫnd, rönd (“stripe, streak, edge”).

Noun

rand m (definite plural ranän)

1. A rafter under the roof, on which wood is set to dry.
2. (in the plural) Rafters between the walls of an outhouse at a fair distance from the floor and apart from each other, to set upon any tools during seasons when not in use, or anything else one wishes to be rid of; scaffolding under the roof for laying up firewood, timber, etc.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rǫnd, rönd (“stripe, streak, edge”).

Noun

rand f (definite plural rendren)

1. Potato trench.
2. Stripe, streak.
3. (figuratively) A streak, a tendency or characteristic.

Related terms

• dagsrand
• pär-rand
• randgäl
• randut

Etymology 3

Noun

rand n

1. An aspen or birch circle bound together with root fibres, which with a cow udder is made a sieve.