raw

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).

Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rô, IPA^(key): /ɹɔː/

Rhymes: -ɔː

• (US) enPR: rô, IPA^(key): /ɹɔ/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: rä, IPA^(key): /ɹɑ/
• Homophones: roar (non-rhotic); rah (cot–caught merger)

Adjective

raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)

1. (cooking) (of food) Not cooked. [from 9th c.]
   1. Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.

2. Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. [from 10th c.] (of materials, products, etc.)

   raw cane sugar

   raw sewage

3. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. [from 14th c.]

   a raw wound

4. New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]

   a raw beginner

5. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. [from 16th c.]

   a raw voice

6. (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis. [from 20th c.]
   • 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:

     What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

7. Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)

   a raw wind
8. Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)

   raw emotion

9. Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.

10. Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
11. (slang, sex) Without a condom.
12. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:raw

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

raw

1. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (slang, sex) Without a condom.

Synonyms

• (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless

Translations

Noun

raw (plural raws)

1. (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
2. A galled place; an inveterate sore.
3. (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
4. (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
5. (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

Translations

Verb

raw (third-person singular simple present raws, present participle rawing, simple past and past participle rawed)

1. (slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate without a condom.

Anagrams

• war-, RWA, ARW, war, War., War, WAR, WRA, Rwa

Anguthimri

Adjective

raw

1. (Mpakwithi) black

References

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

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raw/
• Homophone: rgħaw (one pronunciation)

Verb

raw

1. third-person plural perfect of ra

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hrēaw.

Noun

raw

1. Alternative form of rawe (“raw”)

Etymology 2

From Old English rǣw, rāw.

Noun

raw

1. Alternative form of rewe (“row”)

Old English

Noun

rāw m

1. Alternative form of rǣw

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾaw/ [ˈɾaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -aw
• Syllabification: raw

Particle

raw (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜏ᜔)

1. Alternative form of daw

Usage notes

• When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, daw is used instead.

Welsh

Noun

raw

1. Soft mutation of rhaw.

Mutation