# rah
## English
### Alternative forms

* ra, rahh, raa, raah

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹɑː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː

### Etymology 1

Clipping of hurrah.

#### Interjection

rah
* An exclamation of support or encouragement.
** 2011, Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander, American Public School Law, page 668:Not so very long ago, a row of docile cheerleaders would say, “rah, rah, rah, sis-boombah”—maybe a leg would kick up into the air, perhaps a jump under the cheerleader's own power.
* (Internet slang) An exclamation of patriotic or passionate excitement.
** 2023 June 24, u/crappylilAccident, “Clamworks truth”, in Reddit‎, r/Clamworks, archived from the original on 24 January 2024:I FUCKING LOVE PEOPLE!!!! I FUCKING WANT TO USE THE LIMITED TIME I HAVE TO RESPECT OTHERS AND WHAT THEY ENJOY RAHHHHH
** 2023 October 28, u/Safe-Scarcity2835, “Choose Your Side:”, in Reddit‎, r/balkans_irl, archived from the original on 24 January 2024:RAHHHH IRELAND MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🇮🇪🗣🗣🗣🇮🇪🗣🗣🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🔥🟢⚪️🟢⚪️🟢⚪️🟢⚪️💪💪
** 2024 January 6, u/our_cut, “What old school league terms or 'memes' have disappeared from the game in recent years?”, in Reddit‎, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 24 January 2024:MORDEKAISER MENTIONED RAAHHHH ❗❗❗❗❗❗🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 WTF IS MOBILITY
** 2024 January 7, @pop_priestess, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 24 January 2024:PHILIPPINES MENTIONED RAHHHH 🇵🇭 🦅

##### Derived terms

* rah-rah
* rah-rah skirt

#### Noun

rah (plural rahs)
* (UK, informal, derogatory) A young adult (often a student) who behaves in a stereotypically upper class manner; especially when associated with undeserved privilege or a lack of self-awareness.
    Synonym: (male) Hooray Henry
** 2012, Helen Pidd, Letter from India: it's no easy matter being a woman looking for a decent drink in Delhi: The Guardian‎:I didn't need to make a mental note not to follow their advice: like every other pretentious foreigner from the gap year rahs to the retired yoga addicts, I had no intention of stepping into a shopping centre. I was going to discover the real India.

#### Adjective

rah (comparative more rah, superlative most rah)
* (UK, informal, derogatory) Posh.
** 2022 January 9, Douglas Murray, “Boris Johnson has utterly failed to back up his anti-woke rhetoric with action”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph‎, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-25:The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type.

### Etymology 2

Clipping of rhatid.

#### Interjection

rah (MLE)
* An expression of surprise.
** 2019 June 6, Skepta, quoted in “Skepta opens up about becoming a father and enduring two heartbreaking miscarriages” by Narjas Zatat, Metro:
    He’s like, “Shut up, man. Whatever man. Skip, man, was a shot.” And I’m like, “Rah, this is a bit of a weird reaction?”
* An expression of admiration.
** 2016, Wiley, quoted in This Is Grime by Hattie Collins and Olivia Rose, Hachette UK, page 145:
    Target bought the tape round, I listened to it and I was like, ‘Rah, this is sick, this kid is so sick’.
* An expression of frustration or anger.
** 2016, Big Narstie (lyrics), “Fire In The Booth (Part 3)”, performed by Big Narstie on BBC Radio 1Xtra:
    I was daydreaming, smoking weed out the curtain / Looking at my baby like rah, I'm just a burden

##### Synonyms

* wow

### Anagrams

* Ahr, HAR, RHA, har

## Javanese
### Romanization

rah
* Romanization of ꦫꦃ

## Mizo
### Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *raʔ (“fruit”), maybe from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ras (“rice”). Cognate found in Tibetan འབྲས ('bras).

### Noun

rah
* fruit, berry
    rah tlan ― bird-traps consisting of a kind of fruit
* acorn, nut

### Verb

rah
* to bear fruit
    rah duh ― for a tree to be fruitful
    rah ṭha ― to bear good fruit
    rah chhia ― to bear bad fruit

## Old Javanese
### Noun

rah
* Alternative spelling of rāh

## Somali
### Etymology

Cognate with Jiiddu raki.

### Noun

rah f
* frog

### References

* ↑ Salim Alio Ibro (1998) English-Jiddu-Somali Mini-Dictionary, Victoria, Australia: La Trobe University Language Center, →ISBN

## Sumerian
### Romanization

rah
* Romanization of 𒈛 (raḫ)