English Online Dictionary. What means ra? What does ra mean?
English
Interjection
ra
- Alternative spelling of rah (exclamation of encouragement.)
Albanian
Etymology
Inflection of bie.
Verb
ra
- 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
ra
- (Mpakwithi) stomach
Verb
ra
- (transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
- (transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
Atampaya
Verb
ra
- 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
ra
- bone
Chuukese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronoun
ra
- 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
ra
- Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.
Galician
Alternative forms
- arrá, arrán, ran
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
- “rãa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “rãa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French rare.
Adjective
ra
- rare, uncommon
References
- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
Japanese
Romanization
ra
- Rōmaji transcription of ら
- Rōmaji transcription of ラ
Malagasy
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.
Noun
ra
- 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
ra
- Alternative form of raw
Etymology 2
Noun
ra
- Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)
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
ra
- 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, 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
ra
- (colloquial) Glaswegian form of the
Usage notes
- Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.
Sumerian
Romanization
ra
- Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)
Tagalog
Etymology
Influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da/ra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾa/, [ɾɐ]
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
See also
Further reading
- “ra”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
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˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
Verb
ra • (𫥧, 𦋦, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𫥨, 𬙛)
- to go out, to leave
- (by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam
- 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.
Antonyms
- vào
See also
- Đàng Ngoài
Etymology 2
From French drap.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɹaː˧˧] ~ [zaː˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
- Phonetic: Ra
Noun
(classifier tấm) ra • (𬙛)
- bed sheet
Winnebago
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Article
ra
- 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
Yapese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
ra
- (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense
Yoruba
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- ria
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾā/
Determiner
ra
- (Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us
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
ra
- (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
- 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.
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)
- (Wuming dialect) eye
- Synonym: da
Etymology 2
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)