ra

ra

1. 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."

Inflection of bie.

ra

1. it fell (off)
2. it tumbled, flopped
3. it struck, punched
4. it rained (combined with shi (“rain”))

   Ra shi.

   It rained.

   (literally, “It fell rain.”)

5. it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”))

   Ra borë.

   It snowed.

   (literally, “It fell snow.”)

• rashë
• bie

ra

1. (Mpakwithi) stomach

ra

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub

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

ra

1. throw
2. spill

• Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 537

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

• IPA^(key): /ə̆ɾaḁ/

ra

1. bone

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

ra

1. they
2. they are

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

ra m

1. king

• ree (obsolete, dialectal)

From Middle Dutch ra, from Proto-Germanic *rahō. Cognate with German Rah, Old Norse rá.

• IPA^(key): /raː/

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• Hyphenation: ra
• Rhymes: -aː
• Homophone: Rha

ra f (plural ra's, diminutive raatje n)

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

• razeil

ra

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

• arrán, ran

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː/

ra f (plural ras)

1. frog

• Camporrairo
• Portorrairo
• Rairos
• relo
• Vilarrairo

• “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.

From French rare.

ra

1. rare, uncommon

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

ra

1. Rōmaji transcription of ら
2. Rōmaji transcription of ラ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

ra

1. blood

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.

• IPA^(key): /raː/
• Homophones: ragħa (except archaically), raha (except nonstandard)
• Rhymes: -aː

ra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)

1. to see
2. (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.

ra

1. Alternative form of raw

ra

1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

• IPA^(key): /rà/

ra (progressive raada)

1. to buy

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

ra

1. clear plain

• 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.

• rāha, rāa – early

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.

• IPA^(key): /rɑː/

rā m (nominative plural rān)

1. roe deer, roebuck

• Middle English: ro, roo (northern ra, raa)
  • English: roe
  • Scots: ra, rae

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “rá”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

ra m

1. 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'.

• rakāra

ra

1. Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

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).

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

ra • (𫥧, 𦋦, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𫥨, 𬙛)

1. 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.

2. (by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam

   vào nam, ra bắc ― to go southwards and northwards

3. to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out

   Phim này mới ra nè.

   Hey, this movie has just came out.

4. to become, to turn into

• 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 trẻ ra. ― She is getting younger these days.

• vào

• Đàng Ngoài

From French drap.

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

(classifier tấm) ra • (𬙛)

1. bed sheet

• IPA^(key): [ráː], [rǽː] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -ǽð

From Old Norse hraðr.

ra (comparative radänä, superlative radäst, neuter radt)

1. 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

• 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”)

From Old Norse rǫð.

ra f (definite singular rada, plural rɑda)

1. row, line, sequence

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

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

ra

1. the (definite article)

The article follows the noun it modifies.

• John E. Koontz, Winnebago, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, page 317

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

ra

1. (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

• ria

• IPA^(key): /ɾā/

ra

1. (Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us

• Not used by the Akure subdialect of Ekiti, which uses ria

Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *là, cognate with Igala là, Olukumi la

• IPA^(key): /ɾà/

rà

1. (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

• rákòrò

• IPA^(key): /ɾá/

rá

1. to crawl

• IPA^(key): /ɾà/

rà

1. to rot, to decay

   Synonym: jẹrà

• IPA^(key): /ɾā/

ra

1. (Ekiti) not (placed before a verb to negate it, often used after personal pronouns)

   Wẹ́ ra kú ― You will not die!

• IPA^(key): /ɾa/

ra

1. and (used for people)

   adoum ra hawa ra - Adam and Eve

2. and (after words ending in a vowel)

   Sabit da Arbaha ra - Saturday and Wednesday

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.

da

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɣa˨˦/
• Tone numbers: ra¹
• Hyphenation: ra

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). See da for more.

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

1. (Wuming dialect) eye

   Synonym: da

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)

1. to look for; to find; to search

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

1. to earn (money); to make (money)