ra

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.

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.”)

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

Verb

ra

1. throw
2. spill

References

• Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 537

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

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.

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

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun

ra m

1. king

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)

Romanization

ra

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

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

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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

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)

Romanization

ra

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

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun

ra

1. blood

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;

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology

Cognate with Woleaian ra (“branch”)

Noun

ra

1. branch

Etymology

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rà/

Verb

ra (progressive raada)

1. to buy

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.

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

References

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

Alternative forms

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]‎ (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]‎ (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'.

Determiner

ra

1. (colloquial) Glaswegian form of the

Romanization

ra

1. Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ar

Etymology

Cognate with Persian راه (rah).

Noun

ra

1. road

Etymology 1

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). Attested as ra in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

Etymology 2

From French drap.

Etymology

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

Article

ra

1. the (definite article)

References

• John E. Koontz, Winnebago, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, page 317

Etymology

Cognate with Mokilese ra (“branch”)

Noun

ra

1. branch

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

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *là, cognate with Igala là, Olukumi la

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

Etymology 5

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

See also

da

References

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

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). See da for more.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *kraᴬ (“to seek”).

Etymology 3