ranera
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Catalan
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
Noun
ranera f (plural raneres)
- stertor, rales
- 1986, Ferran Canyameres, Més enllà del rancor, Editorial Laertes, page 43:
- L'Anna llegia al fons de l'entrada, davant d'una taula de petges tortes i a la claror bellugadissa d'un llum d'acetilè penjat a la paret i que trencava el silenci amb una mena de ranera de gat.
- Anna was reading at the far side of the entrance, in front of a table with twisted legs and in the flickering brightness of an acetylene lamp hanging on the wall and which cut the silence with a sound like the wheezing of a cat.
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Further reading
- “ranera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ranera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “ranera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ranera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.