ra

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ra"

English

Interjection

ra

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."

Albanian

Etymology

Inflection of bie.

Verb

ra

it fell (off)
it tumbled, flopped
it struck, punched
it rained (combined with shi (“rain”))
Ra shi.
It rained.
(literally, “It fell rain.”)
it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”))
Ra borë.
It snowed.
(literally, “It fell snow.”)

Related terms

rashë
bie

Anguthimri

Noun

ra

(Mpakwithi) stomach

Verb

ra

(transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
(transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub

References

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

Atampaya

Verb

ra

throw
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

bone

Chuukese

Etymology

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

Pronoun

ra

they
they are

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun

ra m

king

Dutch

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)

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

Derived terms

razeil

Egyptian

Romanization

ra

Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

Galician

Alternative forms

arrán, ran

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈraː/

Noun

ra f (plural ras)

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.

Adjective

ra

rare, uncommon

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

ra

Rōmaji transcription of ら
Rōmaji transcription of ラ

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun

ra

blood

Maltese

Root
w-r-j
10 terms

Etymology

From Arabic رَأَى‎ (raʾā). 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/
Homophones: ragħa (except archaically), raha (except nonstandard)
Rhymes: -aː

Verb

ra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)

to see
(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 923883657, 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.’
  Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ra
		singular			plural
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
perfect	m	rajt	rajt	ra	rajna	rajtu	raw
perfect	f	rajt	rajt	rat	rajna	rajtu	raw
imperfect	m	nara	tara	jara	naraw	taraw	jaraw
imperfect	f	nara	tara	tara	naraw	taraw	jaraw
imperative			ara			araw

Middle English

Adjective

ra

Alternative form of raw

Noun

ra

Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Moore

Etymology

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /rà/

Verb

ra (progressive raada)

to buy

Nyunga

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Etymology

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Noun

ra

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)

roe deer, roebuck

Declension

Declension of ra (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	rā	rān
accusative	rān	rān
genitive	rān	rāna
dative	rān	rām, rāum

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

𑀭 (Brahmi script)
र (Devanagari script)
র (Bengali script)
ර (Sinhalese script)
ရ (Burmese script)
ร or ระ (Thai script)
ᩁ (Tai Tham script)
ຣ or ຣະ (Lao script)
រ (Khmer script)
𑄢 (Chakma script)

Etymology

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

Noun

ra m

the Pali letter 'r'
- c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (in Pali), 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]‎ (in Pali), 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' 'r' as in 'mahāsālo'.

Declension

Declension table of "ra" (masculine)

Case \\ Number	Singular
Nominative (first)	ro
Accusative (second)	raṃ
Instrumental (third)	rena
Dative (fourth)	rassa or rāya or ratthaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	rasmā or ramhā or rā
Genitive (sixth)	rassa
Locative (seventh)	rasmiṃ or ramhi or re
Vocative (calling)	ra

Synonyms

rakāra

Sumerian

Romanization

ra

Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

Vietnamese

Etymology 1

From Middle Vietnamese 𦋦 (ra), from Proto-Vietic *-saː, cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] 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 kɑ^H sia) (modern SV: cá ta).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaː˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaː˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]

Verb

ra • (𫥧, 𦋦, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𫥨, 𬙛)

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.
(by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam
vào nam, ra bắc ― to go southwards and northwards
to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
Phim này mới ra nè.
Hey, this movie has just came out.
to become, to turn into

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 trẻra. ― She is getting younger these days.

Antonyms

vào

Etymology 2

From French drap.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧] ~ [zaː˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
Phonetic: Ra

Noun

(classifier tấm) ra • (𬙛)

bed sheet

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ráː], [rǽː] (example of pronunciation)
Rhymes: -ǽð

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hraðr.

Adjective

ra (comparative radänä, superlative radäst, neuter radt)

Quick, early[1], close at hand, easy, handy; straight.[2]
Hä var int radt dill å få. ― It could not be obtained soon.
Hä jär radänä sagdt än gjohdt. ― It is easier said than done.
radästä vajen ― the closest way
oradt ― not near, not at hand, not easily or quickly done

Derived terms

rabädh (“(crop) harvested in a short time”)
radt (“easy; readily at hand”)
radt dill (“convenient, handy, easily and quickly enforceable”)
rafyri/rafuri/raförä (“convenient to travel; which can quickly be fared; on which you can quickly travel”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rǫð.

Noun

ra f (definite singular rada, plural rɑda)

row, line, sequence

Related terms

rada (“put in a row”)
rɑda (“control (a toboggan or sled) down a hill so that it does not overturn or swerve”)

References

Lundström, Stig, 1999, “rA snabbt, fort”, in Granömålet : en liten ordbok från en by i södra Västerbotten : omfattar i första hand ord som märkbart avviker från rikssvenskan, p. 39
Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Ra(d)”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 519

Winnebago

Etymology

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

Article

ra

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

Yapese

Etymology

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

Verb

ra

(auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

Yoruba

Alternative forms

ria

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾā/

Determiner

ra

(Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us

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

(transitive, ditransitive) to buy

Alternative forms

rákòrò

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾá/

Verb

rá

to crawl

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾà/

Verb

rà

to rot, to decay
Synonym: jẹrà

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾā/

Particle

ra

(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

and (used for people)
adoum ra hawa ra - Adam and Eve
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.

References

Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] 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)

(Wuming dialect) eye
Synonym: da

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)

to look for; to find; to search

Verb

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

to earn (money); to make (money)

[1] Lundström, Stig, 1999, “rA snabbt, fort”, in Granömålet : en liten ordbok från en by i södra Västerbotten : omfattar i första hand ord som märkbart avviker från rikssvenskan, p. 39

[2] Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Ra(d)”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 519