# rá
## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹɔɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɔɑː
* Homophone: ráð
* Rhymes: -ɔaː

### Adjective

rá
* inflection of ráur:
** indefinite feminine nominative singular
** indefinite neuter nominative/accusative plural

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* arrá, arrán, ran

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraː/

### Noun

rá f (plural rás)
* frog
    Synonyms: agano, aganón, carranco, zampesa

#### 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), “rá”, 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), “rá”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rá”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* reá (archaic)
* őrá (emphatic; only of human beings)

### Etymology

Shortened from reá.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈraː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -raː

### Pronoun

rá
* upon/on/unto him/her/it
    Ne szórd rá a homokot! ― Don’t throw sand on her!
    Gondolsz néha rá? ― Do you ever think of him?
    Senki sem emlékszik rá. ― No one remembers her.

#### Usage notes

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with rá-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see rá-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

#### Derived terms

* alszik rá egyet (“to sleep on it”)
* spongyát rá (“let bygones be bygones”)
* mérget vehet rá (“to bet one's boots, to bet the farm”)

### Adverb

rá
* Synonym of később, later (after -ra/-re for the amount of time passed; usually of days or longer periods)
    Húsz évre rá (= Húsz évvel később) ― Twenty years later

### See also

* Appendix:Hungarian pronouns
$^1$Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All Hungarian pronouns

### References

* ↑ rá in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* rá in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

### Anagrams

* ár

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* rádh (obsolete)
* ráit (Ulster)

### Etymology

From Old Irish rád (compare Scottish Gaelic ràdh), from the verb ráidid (“talks”), from Proto-Celtic *rādīti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“perform successfully”). Cognate with Sanskrit राध्नोति (rādhnoti, “succeeds”), Old Church Slavonic радити (raditi, “take care of, work”), Gothic 𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (rōdjan, “talk”), Lithuanian rodýti (“show”).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /ɾˠɑː/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ɾˠaː/

### Noun

rá m (genitive singular as substantive rá, genitive as verbal noun ráite, nominative plural ráite)
* verbal noun of abair
* saying, quote

#### Declension

As substantive:
bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
rá
ráite
vocative
a rá
a ráite
genitive
rá
ráite
dative
rá
ráite
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an rá
na ráite
genitive
an rá
na ráite
dative
leis an rá don rá
leis na ráite :
As verbal noun:
bare forms
case
singular
nominative
rá
vocative
a rá
genitive
ráite
dative
rá
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an rá
genitive
an ráite
dative
leis an rá don rá :

#### Derived terms

* comhrá

### References

* ↑ “ráit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
* ↑ Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, page 46
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 82, page 44
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 78

### Further reading

* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 556
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Kaingang
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾʌ/, [ʌˈɾʌ]

### Noun

rá
* writing; text
* sign

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą, cognate with English roe, German Reh. Cf. Proto-Norse ᚱᚨᛇᚺᚨᚾ (raïhan) written on the 5th-century Caistor-by-Norwich astragalus.

#### Noun

rá f
* deer

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: rá
* Faroese: rá
* Norwegian:
** Norwegian Nynorsk: rå
* Old Swedish: rā
** Swedish: rå
* Danish: rå

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *rahō, cognate with Middle Low German rā, German Rah.

#### Noun

rá f (genitive rár, plural rár or ráar)
* sail-yard

##### Derived terms

* seglrá
* skiprá

##### Descendants

* Norwegian: rå
* Swedish: rå
* Danish: rå

### Etymology 3

From earlier vrá, from Proto-Germanic *wranhō (“angle, corner, nook”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrónkeh₂, possibly cognate with Latvian ròka (“arm, hand”), Lithuanian rankà, Russian рука́ (ruká) and possibly also, via Gaulish, French branche (“branch”).

#### Alternative forms

* vrá, vá

#### Noun

rá f
* corner, nook
* angle

##### Usage notes

Given as an example of a word with a nasal vowel in the First Grammatical Treatise, and contrasted with the non-nasal rá ‘sailyard’.

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: rá
* Faroese: vrá
* Norwegian Nynorsk: ro
* Swedish: vrå
* Danish: vrå
* → Middle English: wro
** English: wroo
** Scots: wray

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Possibly from Old Chinese 籮 (OC *raːl, “bamboo basket”) (Zhengzhang) (SV: la).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [zaː˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʐaː˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɹaː˦˥]

### Noun

(classifier cái) rá • (𥯊)
* bamboo basket

#### Derived terms

* rổ rá