# rana
## Anguthimri
### Noun

rana
* (Mpakwithi) sky

### References

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

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin rāna (“frog”).

### Noun

rana f (plural ranes)
* frog (amphibian)

## Balinese
### Romanization

rana
* Romanization of ᬭᬡ

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From rano (“frog”) +‎ -a (adjectival ending).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrana]
* Rhymes: -ana
* Hyphenation: ran‧a

### Adjective

rana (accusative singular ranan, plural ranaj, accusative plural ranajn)
* Of, relating to or similar to frogs; frogly.
** 1931, Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark), La vojo returne, tr. by Joseph F. Berger, in Populara Esperanto-Biblioteko, No. 15, Heroldo de Esperanto, page 156.
    Printempe la foso estadis plena de rana frajo kaj algoj.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1991, Mikhail A. Bulgakov, La majstro kaj Margarita, tr. by Sergej B. Pokrovskij from Russian, in Serio Oriento-Okcidento, No. 26, Sezonoj (publ.), page 213.
    Lumineskaj putrolignaĵoj, fiksitaj antaŭ la muzikistoj sur la salikaj vergoj, prilumis la notojn, sur la ranaj muzeloj ludis la flagra lumo de la lignofajro.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2006, Zifu Mao, Kantoj de Anteo, Mondial, →ISBN, page 180:vojo sur korpo. / lemno sub rana treta / piedo. marto / morta. kaj sendifekta / ŝraŭbo inenas.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2017, Ĥristina Kozlovska, “La bankoficisto”, in Petro Palivoda, transl., Beletra Almanako, volume 29, Mondial, →ISBN, page 74:Do anstataŭ rektiĝi kordosimile per sia tuta vira beleco, li faris iun strangan impetan ranan salton.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Hausa
### Etymology 1

Compare Egyptian rꜥ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɽáː.náː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ɽáː.náː]

#### Noun

rānā f (plural rā̀nàikū, possessed form ran)
* sun
* heat of the sun
* day

##### Derived terms

* rana-rana (“occasionally”)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɽáː.ná/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ɽáː.nə́]

#### Adverb

rāna
* in the daytime

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -aːna

### Noun

rana
* inflection of rani:
** indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
** indefinite accusative/genitive plural

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.na/
* Rhymes: -na
* Hyphenation: ra‧na

### Etymology 1

From Sanskrit रण (raṇa, “war, battle”).

#### Noun

rana (plural rana-rana)
* (archaic) war
* (archaic) battle
* (archaic) battlefield
    Synonym: medan perang

#### Adjective

rana
* (archaic) daring
* audacious, brave
    Synonym: berani

### Etymology 2

From Sanskrit रण (raṇa, “delight, pleasure, gladness, joy”).

#### Adjective

rana
* joyful
    Synonym: riang

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

rana (plural rana-rana)
* Alternative spelling of ratna

### Further reading

* “rana” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin rāna (“a frog”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.na/
* Rhymes: -ana
* Hyphenation: rà‧na

### Noun

rana f (plural rane)
* frog
    Synonym: (colloquial) ranocchia
* (swimming, singular only) breaststroke

#### Related terms

* rana pescatrice
* ranista
* ranocchia
* ranocchiaia
* ranocchiesco
* ranocchio

#### See also

* girino

## Javanese
### Romanization

rana
* Romanization of ꦫꦤ

## Latin
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic of croaking.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈraː.na/, [ˈräːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈra.na/, [ˈräːnä]

### Noun

rāna f (genitive rānae); first declension
* a frog

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* rānivorus
* rānunculus

#### Descendants

* Asturian: rana
* Franco-Provençal: râna
* French: raine (obsolete)
* Italian: rana
* Old Galician-Portuguese: rãa
** Galician: ra, ran
** Portuguese: rã
* Romansch: rauna
* Spanish: rana
* → Translingual: Rana
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rānucula (see there for further descendants)
* → Hawaiian: lana

### References

* “rana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “rana”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "rana", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* rana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513

## Leonese
### Etymology

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

### Noun

rana f (plural ranas)
* frog

### References

* AEDLL
* Pallabreiru Llïonés

## Nheengatu
### Alternative forms

* arana (achaic)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi rana, from ran + -a.

### Adjective

rana
* similar; alike
* false, used in species names together with the name of another species they are similar to
    kakáu-ranafalse cacao
* improvised; makeshift

### Adverb

rana
* precariously; in a makeshift manner

### References

* Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “rana”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 654

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* ranene (of noun)
    (of verb)
* ranet
* rante (simple past)
* rant (past participle)

### Noun

rana n
* definite plural of ran

### Verb

rana
* inflection of rane:
** simple past
** past participle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

rana n
* definite plural of ran

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɑː.nɑ/

### Noun

rāna
* genitive plural of rā

## Old Tupi
### Etymology

From ran + -a.

### Noun

rana (possessable)
* similar; lookalike
* a poorly made thing; shoddiness

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: rana
* → Brazilian Portuguese: -rana

### References

* ↑ anonymous author (1622) “Semelhante”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 115: “Rãna”
* ↑ anonymous author (1622) “Grosseira cousa ou mal jeito”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 151: “Rãna”
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “rana”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 427, column 1

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.na/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ana
* Syllabification: ra‧na

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rana.

#### Noun

rana f (diminutive ranka)
* (pathology) wound

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

rana n
* inflection of rano:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Further reading

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rana.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /râna/
* Hyphenation: ra‧na

#### Noun

rȁna f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏на)
* wound

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “rana”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

rana
* inflection of ran:
** feminine nominative/vocative singular
** indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
** indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rana.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ràːna/

### Noun

rána f
* wound, injury

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin rāna (“a frog”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrana/ [ˈra.na]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ana
* Syllabification: ra‧na

### Noun

rana f (plural ranas)
* frog

#### Derived terms

* ancas de rana
* cuando las ranas críen pelo
* hombre rana
* pan de ranas
* pata de rana
* rana de cristal
* rana de zarzal
* rana toro
* renacuajo m, ranacuajo m
* salga sapo o salga rana
* sana, sana, colita de rana

#### See also

* sapo m

### Further reading

* “rana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tiruray
### Noun

rana
* rain