rrah

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English

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

rrah

  1. A cry uttered by an infant vervet when separated from its mother.
    • 1983, William C. Stebbins, The Acoustic Sense of Animals, page 140:
      Struhsaker has recorded at least five different distress calls by infant vervets related to mother-infant separation. As the distance between mother and infant increases the "rrah" call changes to "eee" or "rrr" with an increase in intensity.
    • 2011, Jean Aitchison, The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, page 25:
      Even the impressive vervet monkey has only thirty-six distinct vocal sounds in its repertoire. [] An infant separated from its mother gives the lost rrah cry.

Anagrams

Albanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *wragska, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥h₁ǵʰ-sḱé-ti, from *wreh₁ǵʰ-.

Verb

rrah (aorist rraha, participle rrahur)

  1. to strike, beat
  2. to punch (colloquial)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

A deverbative formation.

Noun

rrah m (plural rrahe, definite rrahu, definite plural rrahet)

  1. grubbed out land
Related terms

References

  1. ^ conjugation of active verb rrah