# ra
## English
### Interjection

ra
* 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.

## Albanian
### Etymology

Inflection of bie.

### Verb

ra
* it fell (off)
* it tumbled, flopped
* it struck, punched
* it rained (combined with shi (“rain”))
    Ra shi.It rained.(literally, “It fell rain.”)
* it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”))
    Ra borë.It snowed.(literally, “It fell snow.”)

#### Related terms

* rashë
* bie

## Anguthimri
### Noun

ra
* (Mpakwithi) stomach

### Verb

ra
* (transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
* (transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub

### References

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

## Atampaya
### Verb

ra
* throw
* spill

### References

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

## Borôro
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ə̆ɾaḁ/

### Noun

ra
* bone

## Cebuano
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɾa/ [ˈɾ̪a]

### Adverb

ra (Badlit spelling ᜇ)
* (after the first word of a sentence) only, just, nothing else
    Synonyms: lamang, lang
    Kani ra ang puti ― This is the only white one.
* (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.
* (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.
* (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)
* (after an imperative verb) used to soften a command
    Ambi ra gud ang remote. ― Let me have the remote.

#### Derived terms

* anaa ra
* bantog ra
* iya ra
* kanyahay ra
* lahi ra
* lain ra
* layo ra
* maayo ra
* mao ra
* ra ba
* ra gani
* ra gayod
* ra gud
* ra hinuon
* samok ra
* sobra ra
* tan-awa ra
* wala ra
* yate ra

## Chuukese
### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

ra
* they
* they are

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

### Noun

ra m
* king

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* ree (obsolete, dialectal)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /raː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ra
* Rhymes: -aː
* Homophone: Rha

### Noun

ra f (plural ra's, diminutive raatje n)
* (nautical) spar (horizontal beam or pole of a ship's mastwork)

#### Derived terms

* razeil

## Egyptian
### Romanization

ra
* Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* arrá, arrán, ran, raa

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraː/

### Noun

ra f (plural ras)
* frog

#### Derived terms

* Camporrairo
* Portorrairo
* Rairos
* relo
* Vilarrairo

### 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

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French rare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɣa/

### Adjective

ra
* rare, uncommon

### References

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

## Japanese
### Romanization

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

## Malagasy
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

### Noun

ra
* blood

## Maltese

* Root
* w-r-j
* 10 terms

### 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: /raː/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: ragħa (except archaically), raha (except nonstandard)
* Rhymes: -aː

### Verb

ra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)
* to see
* (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
## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

ra
* Alternative form of raw

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

ra
* Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

## Mokilese
### Etymology

Cognate with Woleaian ra (“branch”)

### Noun

ra
* branch

#### Inflection

| singular possessor | first person | first person | rahioa |
| singular possessor | second person | second person | rahmwen |
| singular possessor | third person | third person | rah |
| dual possessors | first person inclusive | first person inclusive | rahsa |
| dual possessors | first person exclusive | first person exclusive | rahma |
| dual possessors | second person | second person | rahmwa |
| dual possessors | third person | third person | rahra |
| plural possessors | first person inclusive | first person inclusive | rahsai |
| plural possessors | first person exclusive | first person exclusive | rahmai |
| plural possessors | second person | second person | rahmwai |
| plural possessors | third person | third person | rahrai |
| remote plural possessors | first person inclusive | first person inclusive | rahs |
| remote plural possessors | first person exclusive | first person exclusive | rahmi |
| remote plural possessors | second person | second person | rahmwi |
| remote plural possessors | third person | third person | rahr |
| construct form | | | rahn |

## Moore
### Etymology

Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rà/

### Verb

ra (progressive raada)
* to buy

## Nyunga
### Etymology

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

### Noun

ra
* 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.

## Old English
### 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: /rɑː/

### Noun

rā m (nominative plural rān)
* roe deer, roebuck

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Descendants

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

### References

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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀭 (Brahmi script)
* र (Devanagari script)
* র (Bengali script)
* ර (Sinhalese script)
* ရ (Burmese script)
* ร or ระ (Thai script)
* ᩁ (Tai Tham script)
* ຣ or ຣະ (Lao script)
* រ (Khmer script)
* 𑄢 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

ra m
* 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'.

#### Synonyms

* rakāra

## Scots
### Determiner

ra
* (colloquial) Glaswegian form of the

#### Usage notes

* Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.

## Sumerian
### Romanization

ra
* Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

ra (Baybayin spelling ᜇ)
* the name of the Latin-script letter R/r, in the Abakada alphabet
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) ar, (in the Abecedario) ere

#### See also

* da
* dara

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* ar

## Tat
### Etymology

Cognate with Persian راه (rah).

### Noun

ra
* road

## Vietnamese
### 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).

#### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [zaː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʐaː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɹaː˧˧]
* Homophones: da, gia (North Vietnam)
* Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

#### Verb

ra • (𦋦, 𫥧, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𪡔, 囉, 𫥨, 𬙛)
* 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.
* (by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam
    Antonyms: vào, vô
    vào nam, ra bắc ― to go southwards and northwards
* to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
    Phim này mới ra nè.Hey, this movie has just came out.
* to become, to turn into
    Nó chẳng ra gì hết.He didn't turn out to be anybody.

##### Usage notes

* 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.

##### Derived terms

* cửa ra vào
* đâm ra
* hoá ra
* ít ra
* lẽ ra
* lối ra
* ngoài ra
* nhận ra
* nhẽ ra
* ra dáng
* ra đi
* ra đời
* ra hồn
* ra mắt
* ra mặt
* ra oai
* ra ràng
* ra rìa
* ra sao
* ra sức
* ra tay
* ra trò
* ra vào
* ra vẻ
* ra vô
* té ra
* tìm ra
* tính ra

#### See also

* Đàng Ngoài

### Etymology 2

From French drap.

#### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ɹaː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ɹaː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɹaː˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: Ra

#### Noun

(classifier tấm) ra
* bed sheet

## Winnebago
### Etymology

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

### Article

ra
* the (definite article)

#### Usage notes

The article follows the noun it modifies.

### References

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

## Woleaian
### Etymology

Cognate with Mokilese ra (“branch”)

### Noun

ra
* branch

## Yapese
### Etymology

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

### Verb

ra
* (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* ria

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾā/

#### Determiner

ra
* (Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us

##### Usage notes

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾà/

#### Verb

rà
* (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

### Etymology 3
#### Alternative forms

* rákòrò

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾá/

#### Verb

rá
* to crawl

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾà/

#### Verb

rà
* to rot, to decay
    Synonym: jẹrà

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾā/

#### Particle

ra
* (Ekiti) not (placed before a verb to negate it, often used after personal pronouns)
    Wẹ́ ra kú ― You will not die!

## Zaghawa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾa/

### Conjunction

ra
* and (used for people)
    adoum ra hawa ra - Adam and Eve
* and (after words ending in a vowel)
    Sabit da Arbaha ra - Saturday and Wednesday

#### Usage notes

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.

### See also

da

### References

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

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ɣa˨˦/
* Tone numbers: ra$^1$
* Hyphenation: ra

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)
* (Wuming dialect) eye
    Synonym: da

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *kraᴬ (“to seek”).

#### Verb

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)
* to look for; to find; to search

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)
* to earn (money); to make (money)