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English

Interjection

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."
    • 2016, Angie Derek, Mafia Secret:
      Ra-ra and all that. So cheerleaders have a harder time climbing flights of stairs?
    • 2022, Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap, second edition, page 235:
      "Ra! Ra! You can do it! Ra! Ra! Just get to it!"

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Albanian

Etymology

Inflection of bie.

Verb

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.”)

Anguthimri

Noun

ra

  1. (Mpakwithi) stomach

Verb

ra

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

References

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

Atampaya

Verb

ra

  1. throw
  2. 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

Noun

ra

  1. bone

Cebuano

Etymology

Originally an allophone of obsolete da (“idem”). Compare Tausug da (“only; just”) and the daw~raw distinction in Tagalog.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ra (Badlit spelling ᜇ)

  1. (after the first word of a sentence) only, just, nothing else
    Synonyms: lamang, lang
    Kani ra ang puti ― This is the only white one.
  2. (after an adjective indicating a greater nature) too, so, but not too much
    Synonym: kaayo
    Dako ra ang sapatos para nako. ― The shoes are quite big for me.
  3. (with a verb, after a pronoun) expresses an action done by someone alone; to do by oneself
    Siya ray naglaba sa tanang labhonon. ― He did all the laundry by himself.
  4. (after a verb in the prospective aspect) indicates that the action is certain to happen
    Moanhi ra 'na. ― He'll come. (So don't worry)
  5. (after an imperative verb) used to soften a command
    Ambi ra gud ang remote. ― Let me have the remote.

Derived terms

  • anaa ra
  • bantog ra
  • iya ra
  • kanyahay ra
  • lahi ra
  • lain ra
  • layo ra
  • maayo ra
  • mao ra
  • ra ba
  • ra gani
  • ra gayod
  • ra gud
  • ra hinuon
  • samok ra
  • sobra ra
  • tan-awa ra
  • wala ra
  • yate ra
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Chuukese

Etymology

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

Pronoun

ra

  1. they
  2. they are

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun

ra m

  1. king

Dutch

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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)

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

Derived terms

Egyptian

Romanization

ra

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

ra f (plural ras)

  1. frog

Derived terms

  • Camporrairo
  • Portorrairo
  • Rairos
  • relo
  • Vilarrairo

References

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rare.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ra

  1. rare, uncommon

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

ra

  1. The hiragana syllable ら (ra) or the katakana syllable ラ (ra) in Hepburn romanization.

Kapampangan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɾa/ [ˈɾä]
  • Hyphenation: ra

Pronoun

ra

  1. alternative spelling of da
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Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun

ra

  1. blood

Maltese

More information Root ...

Etymology

From Arabic رَأَى (raʔā). 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

Verb

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, 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.’
      New International Version translation: Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, “The Nile belongs to me;

Conjugation

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

ra

  1. alternative form of raw

Etymology 2

Noun

ra

  1. (Early Middle English or Northern) alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Mokilese

Etymology

Cognate with Woleaian ra (“branch”)

Noun

ra

  1. branch

Inflection

More information singular possessor, first person ...

Moore

Etymology

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation

Verb

ra (progressive raada)

  1. to buy

Nyunga

Etymology

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

Noun

ra

  1. clear plain

References

Old English

Alternative forms

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

Noun

rā m (nominative plural rān)

  1. roe deer, roebuck

Declension

Weak:

More information singular, plural ...

Descendants

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

References

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • 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

  1. the Pali letter 'r'
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work 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]‎ (overall work 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' from 'r' as in 'mahāsālo'.

Declension

Declension table of "ra" (masculine)
More information Case \ Number, Singular ...

Synonyms

  • rakāra

Scots

Determiner

ra

  1. (colloquial) Glaswegian form of the

Usage notes

  • Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.

Sumerian

Romanization

ra

  1. romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

Tagalog

Etymology

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da).

Pronunciation

Noun

ra (Baybayin spelling ᜇ)

  1. the name of the Latin-script letter R/r, in the Abakada alphabet
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) ar, (in the Abecedario) ere

See also

Further reading

  • “ra”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

Tat

Etymology

Cognate with Persian راه (rah).

Noun

ra

  1. road

Vietnamese

Etymology 1

Inherited 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, c. 12th cent.) as 亇些, phonetic 個些 (MC kaH sjae) (modern SV: cá ta). Attested as ra in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

Pronunciation

Verb

ra • (𦋦, 𫥧, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𪡔, 囉, 𫥨, 𬙛)

  1. to go out, to leave
    Antonyms: vào, vô
    • 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
    Antonyms: vào, vô
    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
    Nó chẳng ra gì hết.
    He didn't turn out to be anybody.
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 trẻ ra. ― She is getting younger these days.
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French drap.

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier tấm) ra

  1. bed sheet

Winnebago

Etymology

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

Article

ra

  1. 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

Woleaian

Etymology

Cognate with Mokilese ra (“branch”)

Noun

ra

  1. branch

Yapese

Etymology

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

Verb

ra

  1. (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Determiner

ra

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

Verb

rà

  1. (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

  • rákòrò

Pronunciation

Verb

rá

  1. to crawl

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Verb

rà

  1. to rot, to decay
    Synonym: jẹrà

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Particle

ra

  1. (Ekiti) not (placed before a verb to negate it, often used after personal pronouns)
    Wẹ́ ra kú ― You will not die!

Zaghawa

Pronunciation

Conjunction

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

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.

See also

da

References

Zhuang

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. (Wuming dialect) eye
    Synonym: da

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *kraᴬ (“to seek”).

Verb

ra (Sawndip forms 𫽋 or 𥅂 or 𰐣 or 逻 or 啰 or ⿱找下 or 拉 or 而 or 𱲷, 1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. to look for; to find; to search

Etymology 3

Verb

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

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

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