rand

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹænd/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• 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, (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

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. (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker], Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. , London: G Eld, published 1607, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, Northward Hoe (The Tudor Facsimile Texts; 23), , 1914, →OCLC, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2, recto:

     […] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court.

Etymology 4

Shortened from random.

Noun

rand (plural rands)

1. (programming) A random number.

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɐnt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

rand (plural rande or rand)

1. edge, border
2. rand (numismatics)

Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Afrikaans rand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rand/,

Noun

rand inan

1. rand (currency of South Africa)

Declension

Further reading

• "rand" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rǫnd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑnˀ/

Noun

rand (singular definite randen, plural indefinite rande)

1. rand

Declension

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
2. (topology) boundary

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rand
• → Papiamentu: rant

Estonian

Etymology

From either Proto-Balto-Slavic *kranta or Proto-Norse (*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

French

Noun

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (currency)

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand

1. shore

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic رَنْد (rand).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rant/

Noun

rand m (collective, singulative randa, paucal randiet)

1. laurel (Laurus nobilis)

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)

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

Old English

Alternative forms

• rond

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rand, *randu, 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

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

Declension

Derived terms

• randbēag

Related terms

• berindan
• ġerendrian
• rendan
• rind
• rinde
• tōrendan

Descendants

• Middle English: rand, rond
  • English: rand
  • Scots: rand

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

rand

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans rand. Doublet of rant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: rand
• Homophone: rant

Noun

rand m animal (related adjective randowy)

1. rand (currency of South Africa)

Declension

Further reading

• rand in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rand.

Noun

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (numismatics unit of South Africa)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse rǫnd, cognate with Icelandic rönd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrand/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

rand c

1. edge, border, boundary
2. stripe, streak

Declension

Related terms

• randas

References

• rand in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rand in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand

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

Inflection

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

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

1. beach, shore
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Inflection

Synonyms

• viiviir'

Derived terms

• Elevandiluurand