raan

See also: rån, rään, and Rään

Biliau

Noun

raan

1. water

Further reading

• Gary F. and Linda Simons, A vocabulary of Biliau, an Austronesian language of New Guinea, with notes on its development from Proto Oceanic. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project 2 (1977), page 17

Dinka

Noun

raan (plural röör or kɔc)

1. person, human being

   Synonym: kɔc

   Raan tök ënu. ― There was a person.

References

• Roger Blench (2005), Dinka-English Dictionary‎, page 149

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [rˠɑːnʲ], (enunciated) [rˠɑɑnʲ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /rˠæɰænʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {rahan}

Noun

raan

1. day; date

Preposition

raan

1. on top of

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Nuer

Noun

raan

1. person

Puluwat

Noun

raan

1. water

Further reading

• B. Palmer, Passive possession in Oceanic (2006), page 71
• Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley, Meredith Osmond (editors), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics 545-2 (2003), page 59

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Rizal)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈɾaʔan/ [ˈɾaː.ʔɐn̪] (common)
    • Rhymes: -aʔan
  • IPA^(key): /ɾaˈʔan/ [ɾɐˈʔan̪]
    • Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ra‧an

Noun

raan or raán (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜀᜈ᜔) (Rizal, informal)

1. alternative form of daan: path

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾaˈʔan/ [ɾɐˈʔan̪]
  • Rhymes: -an
• (dialectal, Southern Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾaʔan/ [ˈɾaː.ʔɐn̪]
  • Rhymes: -aʔan
• Syllabification: ra‧an

Numeral

raán or raan (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜀᜈ᜔)

1. alternative form of daan: hundred

Taivoan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

Noun

raan

1. path

References

• Li, Jen-Kuei (2010), “raan”, in 新港文書研究 [Studies of Sinkang Manuscripts] (in Chinese), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN, page 637
• “raan”, in Taivoan Dictionary (in Chinese), Taiwan, 2025

Tetum

Etymology

From *daa-, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq. Compare Malay darah.

Noun

raan

1. blood

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Old High German regan, from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regną, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreǵ- (“to flow”).

Noun

raan m

1. rain

Adjective

raan

1. clean

Yapese

Noun

raan

1. alternative form of raen

Further reading

• B. Palmer, Passive possession in Oceanic (2006), page 10

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːn/

Verb

raan

1. simple past of rhin
   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 2-3:

     Hea raan awye del hea caame neeghe Burstheoune.

     He ran away until he came nigh to Bridgetown.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 110