ran

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ran"

Languages (28)

Translingual • English

---

Alemannic German • Arop-Lokep • Catalan • Chuukese • Czech • Danish • German • Gilbertese • Haitian Creole • Japanese • Karnai • Malasanga • Mandarin • Namakura • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Old English • Old Tupi • Polish • Serbo-Croatian • Slovene • Tok Pisin • Ulau-Suain • Vietnamese • Welsh • Welsh Romani

---

Page categories

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Riantana.

Symbol

ran

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Riantana.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Riantana terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæn/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

Verb

ran

1. simple past of run
2. simple past of rin
3. (nonstandard, colloquial) past participle of run
   • 1731, Philippus van Limborch, translated by Samuel Chandler, The History of the Inquisition‎, volume 1, page 231:

     […] rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention, […]

   • 1837, William Keary, Romanism exposed; or, Strictures on two lectures […] ‎, Goddard and Brown, page 6:

     " Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ; […]

   • 2012 March 5, Helen Summer, Running Crazy‎, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 209:

     I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.

Etymology 2

Noun

ran (uncountable)

1. (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

See also

etymologically unrelated terms

• on the ran tan

Anagrams

• Arn, NRA, Nar, RNA

Alemannic German

Adjective

ran

1. (Uri) lanky, slender

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 63.

Arop-Lokep

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑn/, [ˈrɑn]

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• Arop-Lokep, in The Oceanic Languages →ISBN, Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross), page 257: ran ki "his water"
• Stephen George Parker, Phonological Descriptions of Papua New Guinea Languages (2005)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈran]

Adverb

ran

1. alternative form of arran

See also

• ran de

Chuukese

Noun

ran

1. day, daylight

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈran]

Noun

ran

1. genitive plural of rána

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːn/, [ʁɑːˀn]

Noun

ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)

1. open theft

Inflection

Declension of ran

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ran	ranet	ran	ranene
genitive	rans	ranets	rans	ranenes

Verb

ran

1. imperative of rane

German

Etymology

Shortened form of heran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʁan]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: rann

Adverb

ran

1. (colloquial) near, close to, over to

Related terms

• see list in raus

Further reading

• “ran” in Duden online
• “ran” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Gilbertese

Noun

ran

1. water

References

• Thomas Edward Dutton, Darrell T. Tryon, Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World (1994)

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣã/

Noun

ran

1. row, line
2. rank, position

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

ran

1. Rōmaji transcription of らん

Karnai

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 59

Malasanga

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Verna, page 59, 2012

Mandarin

Romanization

ran

1. nonstandard spelling of rán
2. nonstandard spelling of rǎn

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Namakura

Noun

ran

1. water

References

• Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley et Meredith Osmond (eds), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, 545-2. Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, page 59

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

ran

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rán.

Noun

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana or ranene)

1. a robbery

Derived terms

• bankran

Related terms

• rane

Etymology 2

Verb

ran

1. imperative of rane

References

• “ran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

ran

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Old Norse rán.

Noun

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana)

1. a robbery

Derived terms

• bankran

References

• “ran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• rēna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑːn/

Noun

rān n (nominative plural rān)

1. unlawful seizure of property; robbery

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	rān	rān
accusative	rān	rān
genitive	rānes	rāna
dative	rāne	rānum

References

• Joseph Bosworth, edited by T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1882
• T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Supplement, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1921