rand

See also: Rand, RAND, and rând

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹænd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (currency): (General South African, sometimes) IPA^(key): /rʌnt/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

Noun

rand (plural rands)

1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.

   Coordinate term: lagg

   at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh

   • 1963, Field Studies [Council of Great Britain], volume 1, page 132:

     Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.

   • 1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg":

     Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.

   • 2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, page 288:

     […] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.

2. (obsolete, now dialect) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
   • 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins

3. (UK, dialect, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
   • 1867, Anderson, Rhymes, page 44:

     They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.

4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

5. (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.

The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.

Noun

rand (plural rands or rand)

1. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

Translations

a rocky slope

Bulgarian: склон (bg) m (sklon) Polish: zbocze (pl) n

numismatics of South Africa

Afrikaans: rand (af) Arabic: رَانْد m (rand) Bulgarian: ранд m (rand) Chinese: Mandarin: 蘭特 / 兰特 (zh) (lántè) Danish: rand (da) c German: Rand (de) m Greek: ραντ n (rant) Hindi: रेंड (reṇḍ) Japanese: ランド (ja) (rando) Korean: 랜드 (raendeu) Malay: rand (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: rand (no) m Nynorsk: rand m Polish: rand (pl) m Portuguese: rand (pt) m Russian: ранд (ru) m (rand) Swahili: randi (sw)

See also

• Wikipedia article on the rand

Etymology 3

See rant.

Verb

rand (third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker]; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2, recto:

     […] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court.

Etymology 4

Shortened from random.

Noun

rand (plural rands)

1. (programming) A random number.

Anagrams

• DNAR, DNRA, Nard, andr-, darn, nard, rDNA, rdna

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rand, from Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɐnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

rand (plural rande or rand)

1. edge, border
2. rand (numismatics)

Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Afrikaans rand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rand/ [rãn̪d̪]
• Rhymes: -and
• Hyphenation: rand

Noun

rand inan

1. rand (currency of South Africa)

Declension

Declension of rand (inan C-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	rand	randa	randak	randok
ergative	randek	randak	randek	randok
dative	randi	randari	randei	randoi
genitive	randen	randaren	randen	randon
comitative	randekin	randarekin	randekin	randokin
causative	randengatik	randarengatik	randengatik	randongatik
benefactive	randentzat	randarentzat	randentzat	randontzat
instrumental	randez	randaz	randez	randotaz
innesive	randetan	randean	randetan	randotan
locative	randetako	randeko	randetako	randotako
allative	randetara	randera	randetara	randotara
terminative	randetaraino	randeraino	randetaraino	randotaraino
directive	randetarantz	randerantz	randetarantz	randotarantz
destinative	randetarako	randerako	randetarako	randotarako
ablative	randetatik	randetik	randetatik	randotatik
partitive	randik	—	—	—
prolative	randtzat	—	—	—

Further reading

• “rand”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rǫnd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑnˀ/

Noun

rand (singular definite randen, plural indefinite rande)

1. rand

Declension

Declension of rand

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rand	randen	rande	randene
genitive	rands	randens	randes	randenes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: rand
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

rand m (plural randen, diminutive randje n)

1. edge, brink, rim
2. (topology) boundary

Derived terms

• bosrand
• dakrand
• grasrand
• omranden
• randcrimineel
• randdebiel
• randfiguur
• Randstad
• randvoorwaarde
• randzee
• rouwrand
• stoeprand

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rand
• → Papiamentu: rant

Estonian

Etymology

From either Proto-Balto-Slavic *kranta or Proto-Norse [script needed] (*stranđa). Compare German Strand (“beach”), Lithuanian krantas (“beach, shore”) and Finnish ranta (“shore, beach, bank”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈrɑnd̥/

Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

1. beach

Declension

Declension of rand (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-n gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		rand	rannad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ranna
genitive			randade
partitive		randa	rande randasid
illative		randa rannasse	randadesse rannesse
inessive		rannas	randades rannes
elative		rannast	randadest rannest
allative		rannale	randadele rannele
adessive		rannal	randadel rannel
ablative		rannalt	randadelt rannelt
translative		rannaks	randadeks ranneks
terminative		rannani	randadeni
essive		rannana	randadena
abessive		rannata	randadeta
comitative		rannaga	randadega

French

Noun

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (currency)

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand

1. shore

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic رَنْد (rand).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

rand m (collective, singulative randa, paucal randiet)

1. laurel (Laurus nobilis)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rǫnd.

Noun

rand f or m (definite singular randa or randen, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. edge
2. brim (e.g. of a glass)

Derived terms

• randhav

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand (named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district).

Noun

rand m (definite singular randen, indefinite plural rand, definite plural randene)

1. rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rǫnd.

Noun

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. stripe

   med lette Smaasky, lagd i langa Render

   with small light clouds laid in long stripes

2. type, nature, tendency (to do something)
3. brim (e.g. of a glass)
4. edge

Usage notes

Although Old Norse rǫnd meant edge, the Norwegian word traditionally lacks that meaning.

Derived terms

• randhav

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand, named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district.

Noun

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rand m (plural randen)

1. rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

Etymology 3

Noun

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural rander, definite plural randene)

1. mantelpiece

References

• “rand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “rand”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Old English

Alternative forms

• rond

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rand, *randu, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō, from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Old Norse rǫnd (“edge, rim; (poetic) shield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑnd/

Noun

rand m

1. outer part of something: edge, brink, rim, margin
2. (poetic) shield or the boss of a shield

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	rand	rand
accusative	rand	rand
genitive	randes	randa
dative	rande	randum

Derived terms

• randbēag

Related terms

• berindan
• ġerendrian
• rendan
• rind
• rinde
• tōrendan

Descendants

• Middle English: rand, rond
  • English: rand
  • Scots: rand

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

rand

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans rand. Doublet of rant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: rand
• Homophone: rant

Noun

rand m animal (related adjective randowy)

1. rand (currency of South Africa)

Declension

Declension of rand

	singular	plural
nominative	rand	randy
genitive	randa	randów
dative	randowi	random
accusative	randa	randy
instrumental	randem	randami
locative	randzie	randach
vocative	randzie	randy

Further reading

• rand in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rand.

Noun

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (numismatics unit of South Africa)

Further reading

• “rand”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse rǫnd, cognate with Icelandic rönd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrand/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

rand c

1. edge, border, boundary
2. stripe, streak

Declension

Declension of rand

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rand	rands
	definite	randen	randens
plural	indefinite	ränder	ränders
	definite	ränderna	rändernas

Derived terms

• fartrand

Related terms

• randas

References

• rand in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rand in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand

1. coast, shore
2. beach
3. end, edge, boundary
4. land, country

Inflection

Inflection of rand (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	rand
genitive sing.	randan
partitive sing.	randad
partitive plur.	randoid
	singular	plural
nominative	rand	randad
accusative	randan	randad
genitive	randan	randoiden
partitive	randad	randoid
essive-instructive	randan	randoin
translative	randaks	randoikš
inessive	randas	randoiš
elative	randaspäi	randoišpäi
illative	randaha	randoihe
adessive	randal	randoil
ablative	randalpäi	randoilpäi
allative	randale	randoile
abessive	randata	randoita
comitative	randanke	randoidenke
prolative	randadme	randoidme
approximative I	randanno	randoidenno
approximative II	randannoks	randoidennoks
egressive	randannopäi	randoidennopäi
terminative I	randahasai	randoihesai
terminative II	randalesai	randoilesai
terminative III	randassai	—
additive I	randahapäi	randoihepäi
additive II	randalepäi	randoilepäi

Derived terms

• kodirand
• külʹbendrand
• randaline
• randatoi
• randird
• randišt

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “берег, край, сторона”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

1. beach, shore
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Inflection

Inflection of rand

	singular	plural
nominative	rand	rannaq
accusative	ranna	rannaq
genitive	ranna	randõ
partitive	randa	randõ
illative	randa	randõ randõhe
inessive	rannan rannahn	rannõn rannõhn
elative	rannast	rannõst
allative	rannalõ	rannõlõ
adessive	rannal	rannõl
ablative	rannalt	rannõlt
translative	rannas	rannõs
terminative	rannaniq	rannõniq
abessive	rannaldaq	rannõldaq
comitative	rannagaq	randõgaq

Synonyms

• viiviiŕ

Derived terms

• Elevandiluurand