ra

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ra"

Languages (32)

English

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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!"

Anagrams

• ar-, A.R., -ar, ar., Ar., ar, A&R, A/R, AR, ar', A & R, A. & R.

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.”)

Related terms

• rashë
• bie

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

• IPA^(key): /ə̆ɾaḁ/

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾa/ [ˈɾ̪a]

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

 

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

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/

• Audio:

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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

• razeil

Egyptian

Romanization

ra

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

Galician

Alternative forms

• arrá, arrán, ran, raa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː/

Noun

ra f (plural ras)

1. frog

Derived terms

• Camporrairo
• Portorrairo
• Rairos
• relo
• Vilarrairo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rãa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rãa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣa/

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.

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun

ra

1. blood

Maltese

Root
w-r-j
10 terms

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

• IPA^(key): /raː/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: ragħa (except archaically), raha (except nonstandard)
• Rhymes: -aː

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

Conjugation of ra

		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	rajt	rajt	ra		rajna	rajtu	raw
	f			rat
imperfect	m	nara	tara	jara		naraw	taraw	jaraw
	f			tara
imperative			ara				araw

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

ra

1. Alternative form of raw

Etymology 2

Noun

ra

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

Mokilese

Etymology

Cognate with Woleaian ra (“branch”)

Noun

ra

1. branch

Inflection

Possessive forms of ra (loose inalienable possession, -ah stem)

singular possessor	first person		rahioa
	second person		rahmwen
	third person		rah
dual possessors	first person inclusive		rahsa
	first person exclusive		rahma
	second person		rahmwa
	third person		rahra
plural possessors	first person inclusive		rahsai
	first person exclusive		rahmai
	second person		rahmwai
	third person		rahrai
remote plural possessors	first person inclusive		rahs
	first person exclusive		rahmi
	second person		rahmwi
	third person		rahr
construct form			rahn

Moore

Etymology

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rà/

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

• 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.

Old English

Alternative forms

• rāha, rāa — early

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

• IPA^(key): /rɑː/

Noun

rā m (nominative plural rān)

1. roe deer, roebuck

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	rā	rān
accusative	rān	rān
genitive	rān	rāna
dative	rān	rām, rāum

Descendants

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

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rá”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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]‎^[2] (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]‎^[3] (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)

Case \ Number	Singular
Nominative (first)	ro
Accusative (second)	raṃ
Instrumental (third)	rena
Dative (fourth)	rassa or rāya or ratthaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	rasmā or ramhā or rā
Genitive (sixth)	rassa
Locative (seventh)	rasmiṃ or ramhi or re
Vocative (calling)	ra

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾa/ [ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ra

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

• da
• dara

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ar

Tat

Etymology

Cognate with Persian راه (rah).

Noun

ra

1. road

Vietnamese

Etymology 1

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 kaH sjae) (modern SV: cá ta).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• Homophones: da, gia (North Vietnam)

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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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

• cửa ra vào
• đâm ra
• hoá ra
• ít ra
• lẽ ra
• lối ra
• ngoài ra
• nhận ra
• nhẽ ra
• ra dáng
• ra đi
• ra đời
• ra hồn
• ra mắt
• ra mặt
• ra oai
• ra ràng
• ra rìa
• ra sao
• ra sức
• ra tay
• ra trò
• ra vào
• ra vẻ
• ra vô
• té ra
• tìm ra
• tính ra

 

See also

• Đàng Ngoài

Etymology 2

From French drap.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: Ra

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

• ria

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾā/

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

• IPA^(key): /ɾà/

Verb

rà

1. (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• rákòrò

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾá/

Verb

rá

1. to crawl

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾà/

Verb

rà

1. to rot, to decay

   Synonym: jẹrà

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾā/

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

• IPA^(key): /ɾa/

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

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

Zhuang

Pronunciation

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

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 ⿱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

Etymology 3

Verb

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

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