# raca
## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle English rakke, from Middle Dutch rac, from the root of Proto-West Germanic *rakkjan (“to stretch”).

### Noun

raca m (genitive singular raca, nominative plural racaí)
* rack (series of shelves; frame for hanging objects; cut of meat)

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
raca
racaí
vocative
a raca
a racaí
genitive
raca
racaí
dative
raca
racaí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an raca
na racaí
genitive
an raca
na racaí
dative
leis an raca don raca
leis na racaí :

#### Derived terms

* iarnród raca
* raca agus pinniún
* raca bagáiste
* raca céasta
* raca dín
* raca fíona
* raca rothar
* raca spíosraí
* raca tósta
* raca triomaithe

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* racha, racca

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥακά (rhaká), from Aramaic רֵיקָא (rēqā, “worthless person”) or Classical Syriac ܪܝܩܐ (rēqā, “vanity”).

### Interjection

raca (Ecclesiastical Latin)
* idiot!, putz!
** 4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Matthew 5:22:
    Quī autem dīxerit frātrī suō, raca!, reus erit conciliō.And whoever says to his brother, idiot!, shall be liable to answer to the council.
** 397 CE, Tyrannius Rufinus (translator), Instituta Monachorum, question 145, original author: Basil of Caesarea, in Patrologia Latina (volume 103), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1851, column 538:
    Quid est raca? Respōnsum: Prōvinciālis, id est, gentīlis illīus sermō est velut convīciī leviōris, quod domesticīs et hīs quōrum fīdūciam quis gerit, dīcī solet.What is raca? The answer: A provincial, that is, a pagan word used for example as a mild insult, which is usually said to servants and to those who rely on you.

### Noun

raca n (indeclinable) (Ecclesiastical Latin, hapax)
* (metonymically) the act of calling someone ‘raca’.
** c. 393 CE, Saint Jerome, Against Jovinianus 2.31, in Patrologia Latina (volume 23), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1883, column 342:
    Dē eō autem quod nīteris approbāre, convīcium et homicīdium, raca et adulterium, et ōtiōsum sermōnem, et impietātem ūnō suppliciō repēnsārī, […]
       As to the fact that you argue that an insult and a murder, calling somebody a putz and adultery, idle talk and impiety should be rewarded with the same punishment, […]

### References

* “racha” in volume 11, part 2, column 18, line 63 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (“rake”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɑ.kɑ/

### Noun

raca m
* rake
    Synonym: racu

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian razzo, from Latin radius.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.t͡sa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -at͡sa
* Syllabification: ra‧ca

### Noun

raca f
* flare
* firework
    Synonyms: fajerwerk, sztuczne ognie

#### Declension
### Further reading

* raca in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* raca in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Slovene
### Etymology

Possibly from Albanian rosë.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ràːt͡sa/

### Noun

ráca f
* duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “raca”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɾa.t͡ʃa]

### Verb

raca
* (stative) to be torn

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh