раса

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Belarusian

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *rasā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂.

Pronunciation

Noun

раса́ (rasáf inan (genitive расы́, nominative plural ро́сы, genitive plural рос or ро́саў, relational adjective расяны́ or рася́ны or ро́сны)

  1. dew
Declension

Etymology 2

From German Rasse via Polish rasa or Russian раса (rasa).

Pronunciation

Noun

ра́са (rásaf inan (genitive ра́сы, nominative plural ра́сы, genitive plural рас)

  1. race (group of people)
Declension

Etymology 3

Either inherited from Old East Slavic раса (rasa) or borrowed from Old Church Slavonic раса (rasa), to which it was borrowed from Byzantine Greek ράσον (ráson), which is also source of Greek ράσο (ráso); ultimately likely from Latin rāsum.

Pronunciation

Noun

ра́са (rásaf inan (genitive ра́сы, nominative plural ра́сы, genitive plural рас)

  1. cassock
Declension

References

  • раса” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
  • Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2006), “раса”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 11 (раб – сая́н), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 107

Bulgarian

Pronunciation

Noun

ра́са (rásaf

  1. race (group of people)

Declension

References

  • раса”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • раса”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Kyrgyz

Noun

раса (rasa) (Arabic spelling راسا)

  1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)

Macedonian

Pronunciation

Noun

раса (rasaf

  1. race (group of people)

Declension

Declension of раса
singular plural
indefinite раса (rasa) раси (rasi)
definite unspecified расата (rasata) расите (rasite)
definite proximal расава (rasava) расиве (rasive)
definite distal расана (rasana) расине (rasine)
vocative расо (raso) раси (rasi)

References

  • раса in Makedonisch Info (germansko-makedonski rečnik, makedonsko-germanski rečnik)

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rasse, French race or Italian razza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • IPA(key):  (phonetic respelling: ра́сса) (non-standard, possibly due to conflation with тра́сса (trássa), ма́сса (mássa), etc.)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -asə

Noun

ра́са (rásaf inan (genitive ра́сы, nominative plural ра́сы, genitive plural рас)

  1. race (group of people)

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: ռասա (ṙasa)
  • Yakut: арааса (araasa)

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Rasse, from French race, from Italian razza, possibly from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, head).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /râsa/
  • Hyphenation: ра‧са

Noun

ра̏са f (Latin spelling rȁsa)

  1. race (group of people)

Declension

Ukrainian

Pronunciation

Noun

ра́са (rásaf inan (genitive ра́си, nominative plural ра́си, genitive plural рас)

  1. race (group of people)

Declension

Noun

ра́са (rásaf animal (genitive ра́си, nominative plural ра́си, genitive plural рас)

  1. mammalian genus of civet

Declension

References