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English
Etymology
From Middle English rawe , raw , rau , from Old English hrēaw ( “ raw, uncooked ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *hrau , from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz , *hrēwaz ( “ raw ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- ( “ raw meat, fresh blood ” ) .
Cognate with Scots raw ( “ raw ” ) , Dutch rauw ( “ raw ” ) , German roh ( “ raw ” ) , Swedish rå ( “ raw ” ) , Icelandic hrár ( “ raw ” ) , Latin crūdus ( “ raw, bloody, uncooked ” ) , Irish cró ( “ blood ” ) , Lithuanian kraujas ( “ blood ” ) , Russian кровь ( krovʹ , “ blood ” ) . Related also to Old English hrēow , hrēoh ( “ rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous ” ) . More at ree .
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -ɔː
Adjective
Raw (uncooked) sausages
raw (comparative rawer , superlative rawest )
( cooking ) ( of food ) Not cooked .
There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
Not treated or processed ; in a natural state, unrefined , unprocessed . ( of materials, products, etc. )
1997 , A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments , Elsevier , →ISBN , page 63 :Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
raw cane sugar
raw sewage
Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed , tender ; exposed , lacerated .
1963 , Margery Allingham , chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery , London: Chatto & Windus , →OCLC :‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw . Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. ’
a raw wound
New or inexperienced .
a raw beginner
Crude in quality; rough , uneven , unsophisticated .
a raw voice
( statistics , of data) Uncorrected , without analysis.
2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
Unpleasantly cold or damp . ( of weather )
a raw wind
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :a raw and gusty day
1847 October 16, Currer Bell , chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. In Three Volumes.">… ] , volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co. , , →OCLC , page 1 : I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes,
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller , “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster , →OCLC , page 428 :He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.
Unmasked , undisguised , strongly expressed . ( of an emotion, personality, etc. )
raw emotion
Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
a raw description of the American political arena
Unrefined , crude , or insensitive , especially with reference to sexual matters. ( of language )
( slang , sex ) Without a condom .
( obsolete ) Not covered; bare ; bald .
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
uncooked
Abkhaz: аӡа ( adza )
Ainu: フ ( hu )
Albanian: gjallë (sq)
Arabic: نَيْء ( nayʔ )
Gulf Arabic: ني ( nei )
Armenian: հում (hy) ( hum )
Aromanian: crud
Assamese: কেঁচা ( kẽsa )
Asturian: crudu
Azerbaijani: xam , çiy (az)
Baluchi: هامگ ( hāmag )
Basque: gordin
Belarusian: сыры́ ( syrý )
Bengali: কাঁচা (bn) ( kãca )
Bulgarian: суро́в (bg) ( suróv )
Burmese: စိမ်း (my) ( cim: )
Catalan: cru (ca)
Cebuano: hilaw
Chamicuro: s̈hoyi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 生的 (zh) ( shēng de )
Czech: syrový (cs)
Dalmatian: croit
Danish: rå (da)
Dutch: rauw (nl) , rauwe (nl) , rauw (nl)
Eastern Khanty: њарәӽ ( njarəḥ )
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: toores
Finnish: raaka (fi)
French: cru (fr)
Friulian: crût , crûd
Galician: cru (gl)
Georgian: ნედლი ( nedli )
German: roh (de)
Greek: ωμός (el) ( omós ) , άψητος (el) ( ápsitos ) , αμαγείρευτος (el) ( amageíreftos )
Ancient: ὠμός ( ōmós )
Hawaiian: maka
Hebrew: נָא (he) ( na ) , חַי (he) ( khay )
Higaonon: hilaw , manilaw
Hindi: कच्चा (hi) ( kaccā )
Hungarian: nyers (hu)
Icelandic: hrár (is) , óunninn
Indonesian: mentah (id)
Ingrian: toore
Interlingua: crude
Irish: amh
Old Irish: om
Italian: crudo (it)
Japanese: 生の (ja) ( なまの, nama no )
Javanese: mentah (jv)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: шикі ( şikı )
Khmer: ខ្ចី (km) ( khcəy ) , ឆៅ (km) ( chaw )
Korean: 생의 (ko) ( saeng'ui ) , 날것의 (ko) ( nalgeosui )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خاو ( xaw )
Northern Kurdish: xav (ku)
Kyrgyz: чийки (ky) ( ciyki ) , кам (ky) ( kam )
Lao: ດິບ ( dip )
Latgalian: zaļš
Latin: crudus , incoctus
Latvian: jēls
Lithuanian: žalias (lt)
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: réi
Macedonian: сиров ( sirov )
Malay: mentah (ms)
Malayalam: പച്ച (ml) ( pacca )
Maltese: nej
Mansaka: ilaw
Manx: aw
Maori: ota , mata (mi)
Marathi: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: түүхий (mn) ( tüüxii )
Navajo: tʼáá tʼéehgo
Neapolitan: crudo
Nepali: काँचो (ne) ( kā̃co )
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rå (no)
Occitan: crus (oc)
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: сꙑръ ( syrŭ )
Old Javanese: mĕtah
Ossetian: хом ( xom )
Ottoman Turkish: خام ( ham )
Pashto: اوم ( um )
Persian: خام (fa) ( xâm )
Pitjantjatjara: wanka
Plautdietsch: reiw
Polish: surowy (pl)
Portuguese: cru (pt) , crua (pt) f
Punjabi: ਕੱਚਾ ( kaccā )
Quechua: chawa , cawa , hanku
Romanian: crud (ro)
Romansch: criv , criu , criev , crüj
Russian: сыро́й (ru) ( syrój )
Samoan: ota
Sanskrit: आम (sa) ( āma )
Sardinian: cru , crudu , cruo , cruu
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сѝров
Roman: sìrov (sh)
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: surový
Slovene: surov (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: syry
Upper Sorbian: syry
Spanish: crudo (es)
Swedish: rå (sv)
Tahitian: ota
Tajik: хом ( xom )
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Tatar: чи (tt) ( çi )
Telugu: పచ్చి (te) ( pacci )
Thai: ดิบ (th) ( dìp )
Tibetan: རྗེན་པ ( rjen pa )
Turkish: ham (tr) , çiğ (tr)
Turkmen: çig
Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: сири́й ( syrýj )
Urdu: کچا ( kaccā )
Uyghur: خام ( xam )
Uzbek: xom (uz)
Vietnamese: sống (vi)
Warlpiri: wanka
Welsh: amrwd (cy)
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: רוי ( roy )
Zhuang: ndip
chafed, exposed of a wound
of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis
of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold
Translations to be checked
Adverb
raw
( slang , sex ) Without a condom .
We did it raw .
2020 , “What You Know Bout Love”, performed by Pop Smoke:You know what I be on, I'm about to go raw
Synonyms
Translations
Noun
raw (plural raws )
( sugar refining, sugar trade ) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
1800 , Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer , volume 22 , page 287 :With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.
1921 , “The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry”, in American Chemical Society , Volume 13, Part 1, page 149 :Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
1939 , The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924 :The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.
A galled place; an inveterate sore .
( by extension, figurative ) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive .
1934 , Harold Heslop, Goaf , page 29 :In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw , and they went out of the room to prepare a meal.
( anime fandom slang ) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed .
( manga fandom slang ) A scan that has not been cleaned ( purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process ) and has not been scanlated .
Translations
anime fandom: a recording or rip that has not been fansubbed
Chinese:
Mandarin: 生肉 (zh) ( shēngròu )
manga fandom: a scan that has not been cleaned and scanlated
Chinese:
Mandarin: 生肉 (zh) ( shēngròu )
Verb
raw (third-person singular simple present raws , present participle rawing , simple past and past participle rawed )
( slang , transitive ) To sexually penetrate without a condom.
Anagrams
Anguthimri
Adjective
raw
( Mpakwithi ) black
References
Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
Maltese
Pronunciation
Verb
raw
third-person plural perfect of ra
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
raw
alternative form of rawe ( “ raw ” )
Etymology 2
Noun
raw
alternative form of rewe ( “ row ” )
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
rāw f
alternative form of rǣw
Declension
Strong ō -stem:
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Particle
raw (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜏ᜔ )
alternative form of daw
Masaya raw siya. They say he is happy.
Usage notes
When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨ w ⟩ , or ⟨ y ⟩ , daw is used instead.
Welsh
Noun
raw
soft mutation of rhaw
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.