ra

English

Interjection

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."

   • 2016, Angie Derek, Mafia Secret:

     Ra-ra and all that. So cheerleaders have a harder time climbing flights of stairs?

   • 2022, Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap, second edition, page 235:

     "Ra! Ra! You can do it! Ra! Ra! Just get to it!"

Albanian

Etymology

Inflection of bie.

Verb

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

• rashë
• bie

Anguthimri

Noun

ra

1. (Mpakwithi) stomach

Verb

ra

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

References

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

Atampaya

Verb

ra

1. throw
2. spill

References

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

Borôro

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə̆ɾaḁ/

Noun

ra

1. bone

Chuukese

Etymology

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

Pronoun

ra

1. they
2. they are

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun

ra m

1. king

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Ra (zeil)

Wikipedia ^nl

Alternative forms

• ree (obsolete, dialectal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raː/

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• Hyphenation: ra
• Rhymes: -aː
• Homophone: Rha

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• razeil

Egyptian

Romanization

ra

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

Galician

Alternative forms

• arrá, arrán, ran

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː/

Noun

ra f (plural ras)

1. frog

Derived terms

• Camporrairo
• Portorrairo
• Rairos
• relo
• Vilarrairo

References

• “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

Etymology

From French rare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣa/

Adjective

ra

1. rare, uncommon

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

ra

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

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun

ra

1. blood

Maltese

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /raː/

• Audio

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• Homophones: ragħa (except archaically), raha (except nonstandard)
• Rhymes: -aː

Verb

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.’

     New International Version translation: Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, “The Nile belongs to me;

Conjugation

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

ra

1. Alternative form of raw

Etymology 2

Noun

ra

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

Mokilese

Etymology

Cognate with Woleaian ra (“branch”)

Noun

ra

1. branch

Inflection

Moore

Etymology

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rà/

Verb

ra (progressive raada)

1. to buy

Nyunga

Etymology

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

Noun

ra

1. clear plain

References

• 2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.

Old English

Alternative forms

• rāha, rāa — early

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /rɑː/

Noun

rā m (nominative plural rān)

1. roe deer, roebuck

Declension

Descendants

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

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rá”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

ra m

1. the Pali letter 'r'
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎, 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]‎, 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' from 'r' as in 'mahāsālo'.

Declension

Synonyms

• rakāra

Scots

Determiner

ra

1. (colloquial) Glaswegian form of the

Usage notes

• Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.

Sumerian

Romanization

ra

1. Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

Tagalog

Etymology

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da/ra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾa/,

Noun

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

Further reading

• “ra”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tat

Etymology

Cognate with Persian راه (rah).

Noun

ra

1. road

Vietnamese

Etymology 1

From Middle Vietnamese 𦋦 (ra), from Proto-Vietic *-saː, cognate with Tho 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 kaH sjae) (modern SV: cá ta).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key):

Verb

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

   Nó chẳng ra gì hết.

   He didn't turn out to be anybody.

Usage notes

• 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

• vào

See also

• Đàng Ngoài

Etymology 2

From French drap.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): ~
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic: Ra

Noun

(classifier tấm) ra • (𬙛)

1. bed sheet

Winnebago

Etymology

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

Article

ra

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

The article follows the noun it modifies.

References

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

Woleaian

Etymology

Cognate with Mokilese ra (“branch”)

Noun

ra

1. branch

Yapese

Etymology

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

Verb

ra

1. (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• ria

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾā/

Determiner

ra

1. (Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us

Usage notes

• Not used by the Akure subdialect of Ekiti, which uses ria.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾà/

Verb

rà

1. (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• rákòrò

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾá/

Verb

rá

1. to crawl

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾà/

Verb

rà

1. to rot, to decay

   Synonym: jẹrà

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾā/

Particle

ra

1. (Ekiti) not (placed before a verb to negate it, often used after personal pronouns)

   Wẹ́ ra kú ― You will not die!

Zaghawa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾa/

Conjunction

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

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

da

References

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɣa˨˦/
• Tone numbers: ra¹
• Hyphenation: ra

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

1. (Wuming dialect) eye

   Synonym: da

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *kraᴬ (“to seek”).

Verb

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

Verb

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

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