# rand
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹænd/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ænd

### Etymology 1

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

#### Noun

rand (plural rands)
* The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
    Coordinate term: lagg
    at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh
** 1963, Field Studies [Council of Great Britain], volume 1, page 132:
    Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.
** 1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg":Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.
** 2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, page 288:[…] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.
* (obsolete, now dialect) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
** 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins
* (UK, dialect, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
** 1867, Anderson, Rhymes, page 44:
    They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.
* A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### References

* The Dictionary of the Scots Language

### Etymology 2

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.
The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.

#### Noun

rand (plural rands or rand)
* A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
* The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

##### Translations
#### See also

* Wikipedia article on the rand

### Etymology 3

See rant.

#### Verb

rand (third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed)
* (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
** c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker], Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, Northward Hoe (The Tudor Facsimile Texts; 23), [Amersham, Buckinghamshire: John S. Farmer], 1914, →OCLC, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2, recto:[…] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court.

### Etymology 4

Shortened from random.

#### Noun

rand (plural rands)
* (programming) A random number.

### Anagrams

* DNAR, DNRA, Nard, andr-, darn, nard, rDNA, rdna

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch rand, from Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɐnt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rand (plural rande or rand)
* edge, border
* rand (numismatics)

## Basque
### Etymology

Ultimately from Afrikaans rand.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rand/, [rãn̪d̪]

### Noun

rand inan
* rand (currency of South Africa)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “rand”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse rǫnd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɑnˀ/

### Noun

rand (singular definite randen, plural indefinite rande)
* rand

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɑnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: rand
* Rhymes: -ɑnt

### Noun

rand m (plural randen, diminutive randje n)
* edge, brink, rim
* (topology) boundary

#### Derived terms

* bosrand
* dakrand
* grasrand
* randcrimineel
* randdebiel
* randfiguur
* randvoorwaarde
* rouwrand
* Randstad
* stoeprand

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: rand
* → Papiamentu: rant

## Estonian
### Etymology

From either Proto-Balto-Slavic *kranta or Proto-Norse [script needed] (*stranđa). Compare German Strand (“beach”), Lithuanian krantas (“beach, shore”) and Finnish ranta (“shore, beach, bank”).

### Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈrɑnd̥/

### Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)
* beach

#### Declension
## French
### Noun

rand m (plural rands)
* rand (currency)

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

### Noun

rand
* shore

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic رَنْد (rand).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rant/

### Noun

rand m (collective, singulative randa, paucal randiet)
* laurel (Laurus nobilis)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse rǫnd.

#### Noun

rand f or m (definite singular randa or randen, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)
* edge
* brim (e.g. of a glass)

##### Derived terms

* randhav

### Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand (named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district).

#### Noun

rand m (definite singular randen, indefinite plural rand, definite plural randene)
* rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse rǫnd.

#### Noun

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)
* stripe
    med lette Smaasky, lagd i langa Renderwith small light clouds laid in long stripes
* type, nature, tendency (to do something)
* brim (e.g. of a glass)
* edge

##### Usage notes

Although Old Norse rǫnd meant edge, the Norwegian word traditionally lacks that meaning.

##### Derived terms

* randhav

### Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand, named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district.

#### Noun

rand m (plural randen)
* rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural rander, definite plural randene)
* mantelpiece

### References

* “rand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* “rand”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* rond

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rand, *randu, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō, from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Old Norse rǫnd (“edge, rim; (poetic) shield”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɑnd/

### Noun

rand m
* outer part of something: edge, brink, rim, margin
* (poetic) shield or the boss of a shield

#### Derived terms

* randbēag

#### Related terms

* berindan
* ġerendrian
* rendan
* rind
* rinde
* tōrendan

#### Descendants

* Middle English: rand, rond
** English: rand
** Scots: rand

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans rand. Doublet of rant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrant/
* Rhymes: -ant
* Syllabification: rand
* Homophone: rant

### Noun

rand m animal (related adjective randowy)
* rand (currency of South Africa)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* rand in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rand.

### Noun

rand m (plural rands)
* rand (numismatics unit of South Africa)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse rǫnd, cognate with Icelandic rönd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrand/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rand c
* edge, border, boundary
* stripe, streak

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | rand | rands |
| singular | definite | randen | randens |
| plural | indefinite | ränder | ränders |
| plural | definite | ränderna | rändernas |

#### Derived terms

* fartrand

#### Related terms

* randas

### References

* rand in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* rand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* rand in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

### Noun

rand
* coast, shore
* beach
* end, edge, boundary
* land, country

#### Derived terms

* randaline
* randatoi
* randišt
* kodirand
* kül'bendrand
* randird

### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “берег, край, сторона”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

## Võro
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

### Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)
* beach, shore
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Synonyms

* viiviir'

#### Derived terms

* Elevandiluurand