ra

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!"

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

Inflection of bie.

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.”)

• rashë
• bie

ra

1. (Mpakwithi) stomach

ra

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub

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

ra

1. throw
2. spill

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ə̆ɾaḁ/

ra

1. bone

Originally an allophone of obsolete da (“idem”). Compare Tausug da (“only; just”) and the daw~raw distinction in Tagalog.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾa/ [ˈɾ̪a]

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.

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

ra

1. they
2. they are

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

ra m

1. king

• ree (obsolete, dialectal)

From Middle Dutch ra, from Proto-Germanic *rahō. Cognate with German Rah, Old Norse rá.

• IPA^(key): /raː/

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• Hyphenation: ra
• Rhymes: -aː
• Homophone: Rha

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

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

• razeil

ra

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

• arrá, arrán, ran, raa

From Old Galician-Portuguese rãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː/

ra f (plural ras)

1. frog

• Camporrairo
• Portorrairo
• Rairos
• relo
• Vilarrairo

• 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

From French rare.

• IPA^(key): /ɣa/

ra

1. rare, uncommon

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

ra

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

ra

1. blood

Root
w-r-j
10 terms

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.

• IPA^(key): /raː/

• Audio:

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

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;

Conjugation of ra
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	rajt	rajt	ra		rajna	rajtu	raw
	f			rat
imperfect	m	nara	tara	jara		naraw	taraw	jaraw
	f			tara
imperative			ara				araw

ra

1. Alternative form of raw

ra

1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Cognate with Woleaian ra (“branch”)

ra

1. branch

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

• IPA^(key): /rà/

ra (progressive raada)

1. to buy

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ra

1. clear plain

• 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.

• rāha, rāa — early

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.

• IPA^(key): /rɑː/

rā m (nominative plural rān)

1. roe deer, roebuck

Weak:

• Middle English: ro, roo (northern ra, raa)
  • English: roe
  • Scots: ra, rae

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rá”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

ra m

1. the Pali letter 'r'
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[2] (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]‎^[3] (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'.

• rakāra

ra

1. (colloquial) Glaswegian form of the

• Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.

ra

1. Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾa/ [ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ra

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

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

• ar

Cognate with Persian راه (rah).

ra

1. road

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).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• Homophones: da, gia (North Vietnam)

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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ra • (𦋦, 𫥧, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𪡔, 囉, 𫥨, 𬙛)

1. to go out, to leave

   Antonyms: vào, vô

   • Copy from 18th century, Urtext probably from 12th or 15th century, Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經):

     雷(Lôi)亇些(ra)礼(lưỡi)𢪀(nghỉ)曳(dài)林(trăm)由(do)旬(tuần)

     Pull out his 100 yojanas long tongue.

2. (by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam

   Antonyms: vào, vô

   vào nam, ra bắc ― to go southwards and northwards

3. to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out

   Phim này mới ra nè.

   Hey, this movie has just came out.

4. to become, to turn into

   Nó chẳng ra gì hết.

   He didn't turn out to be anybody.

• 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.

• Đàng Ngoài

From French drap.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: Ra

(classifier tấm) ra

1. bed sheet

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ra

1. the (definite article)

The article follows the noun it modifies.

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

Cognate with Mokilese ra (“branch”)

ra

1. branch

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ra

1. (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

• ria

• IPA^(key): /ɾā/

ra

1. (Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us

• Not used by the Akure subdialect of Ekiti, which uses ria.

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

• IPA^(key): /ɾà/

rà

1. (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

• rákòrò

• IPA^(key): /ɾá/

rá

1. to crawl

• IPA^(key): /ɾà/

rà

1. to rot, to decay

   Synonym: jẹrà

• IPA^(key): /ɾā/

ra

1. (Ekiti) not (placed before a verb to negate it, often used after personal pronouns)

   Wẹ́ ra kú ― You will not die!

• IPA^(key): /ɾa/

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

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.

da

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

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

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

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

1. (Wuming dialect) eye

   Synonym: da

From Proto-Tai *kraᴬ (“to seek”).

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)

1. to look for; to find; to search

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

1. to earn (money); to make (money)