ra - synonyms, antonyms, definitions

ra

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of ra in English

English Online Dictionary. What means ra‎? What does ra mean?

English

Interjection

Alternative spelling of rah (“exclamation of encouragement”)

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Etymology

Inflection of bie.

Verb

it fell (off)
it tumbled, flopped
it struck, punched
it rained (combined with shi (“rain”))
it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”))

Related terms

rashë
bie

Anguthimri

Noun

(Mpakwithi) stomach

Verb

(transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
(transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub

References

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

Atampaya

Verb

throw
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

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)

(after the first word of a sentence) only, just, nothing else
Synonyms: lamang, lang

Kani ra ang puti ― This is the only white one.
(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.
(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.
(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)
(after an imperative verb) used to soften a command
Ambi ra gud ang remote. ― Let me have the remote.

Derived terms

Chuukese

Etymology

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

Pronoun

they
they are

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun

ra m

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/
Hyphenation: ra
Rhymes: -aː
Homophone: Rha

Noun

ra f (plural ra's, diminutive raatje n)

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

Derived terms

razeil

Egyptian

Romanization

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)

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

rare, uncommon

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

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

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun

blood

Maltese

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

Verb

ra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)

to see
(imperative) look!, behold!; often construed with a pronominal suffix referring to the subject of the following context

Conjugation

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

Alternative form of raw

Etymology 2

Noun

Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Mokilese

Etymology

Cognate with Woleaian ra (“branch”)

Noun

branch

Inflection

Moore

Etymology

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /rà/

Verb

ra (progressive raada)

to buy

Nyunga

Etymology

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

Noun

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)

roe deer, roebuck

Declension

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

Etymology

Probably from the pronunciation of a syllable consisting only of the letter.

Noun

ra m

the Pali letter 'r'

Declension

Synonyms

rakāra

Scots

Determiner

(colloquial) Glaswegian form of the

Usage notes

Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.

Sumerian

Romanization

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)

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

Anagrams

Tat

Etymology

Cognate with Persian (rah).

Noun

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)

Verb

ra • (𦋦, 𫥧, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𪡔, 囉, 𫥨, 𬙛)

to go out, to leave
Antonyms: vào, vô
(by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam
Antonyms: vào, vô

vào nam, ra bắc ― to go southwards and northwards
to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
to become, to turn into

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

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

bed sheet

Winnebago

Etymology

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Article

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

branch

Yapese

Etymology

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

Verb

(auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾā/

Determiner

(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

(transitive, ditransitive) to buy

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

rákòrò

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾá/

Verb

rá

to crawl

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾà/

Verb

rà

to rot, to decay
Synonym: jẹrà

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾā/

Particle

(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

and (used for people)
adoum ra hawa ra - Adam and Eve
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.

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)

(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)

to look for; to find; to search

Etymology 3

Verb

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

to earn (money); to make (money)