ran

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

Verb

ran

1. simple past of run
2. simple past of rin
3. (nonstandard, colloquial) past participle of run

Etymology 2

Noun

ran (uncountable)

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

See also

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

Verb

ran

1. imperative of rane

German

Etymology

Shortened form of heran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʁan]
• 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

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

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:

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

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ran, from Proto-Tupian *ran.

Adjective

ran (noun form rana)

1. similar; alike; false
2. shoddy; poorly made
3. (figurative) rude; impolite

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “rana”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 427, column 1

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈran/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ran

Noun

ran f

1. genitive plural of rana

Noun

ran n

1. genitive plural of rano

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ranъ (Russian ра́нний (ránnij), Polish rano).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /râːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

Adjective

rȃn (Cyrillic spelling ра̑н, definite rȃnī, comparative rànijī)

1. early

   Antonym: kȁsan

2. premature

Declension

References

• “ran”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ráːn/

Adjective

rȃn (comparative ránejši, superlative nȁjránejši)

1. early

Inflection

Further reading

• “ran”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English run.

Noun

ran

1. To run

Ulau-Suain

Noun

ran

1. water

References

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Vietnamese

Etymology

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 波散 (MC pa sanX) (modern SV: ba tản).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹaːŋ˧˧]

Verb

ran

1. to resound; to spread widely

Welsh

Noun

ran

1. Soft mutation of rhan.

Mutation

Welsh Romani

Noun

ran f

1. rod, wand
2. fishing rod

Derived terms

References

• “ran” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.