# rain
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: rān, IPA: /ɹeɪn/
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* Rhymes: -eɪn
* Homophones: reign, rein

### Etymology 1

From Middle English reyn, rein, from Old English reġn, from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regną, of uncertain origin. Possibly from pre-Germanic *Hréǵ-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreǵ- (“to flow”), although the consonant reflexes don't match.
See also West Frisian rein, Dutch regen, German Regen, Danish and Norwegian regn; also Latin rigō (“wet, soak”), Lithuanian rõki (“drizzling rain”), Albanian rrjedh (“to flow, drip”).

#### Alternative forms

* rayne, raygne (obsolete)

#### Noun

rain (usually uncountable, plural rains)
* (meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.
    We've been having a lot of rain lately.
    The rains came late that year.
** 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    This process involves cloud seeding – when various substances are put into clouds in an attempt to cause rain.
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* (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
* (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
    A rain of mortar fire fell on our trenches.

##### Usage notes

* shower, downpour, drop are some of the words used to count rain.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:hydrometeor

##### Derived terms

* Also see terms derived from the verb
* acid rain
* black rain
* blood rain
* cold rain process
* come rain or shine
* come rain or snow
* coronal rain
* derain
* driving rain
* first rain
* freezing rain
* golden rain
* golden rain tree
* methane rain
* oil rain lamp
* plum rain, plum rains
* pour with rain
* rainband
* rain-barrel, rain barrel
* rainberry
* rainbird
* rain bomb
* rainboot
* rainbound
* rainbow
* rainburn
* rainburst
* raincape
* rain chamber
* raincheck, rain check, rain cheque
* rainclothes
* rain cloud
* raincloud
* raincoat
* rain-coat
* rain collar
* Raincouver
* rain crow
* rain dance
* raindate
* rain day
* rain death
* rain delay
* rain doctor
* raindrift
* raindrop
* rainer
* rainfall
* rainfast
* rainfed
* rainflow
* rainforest, rain forest
* rain frog
* rainful
* rain gage
* rain garden
* rain gauge
* raingear
* rain gutter
* rain hat
* rainhat
* rainish
* rainjacket
* rain lamp
* rainless
* rainlight
* rainlike
* rain lily
* rainmaker
* rainmaking
* rain man
* rainmeter
* rain moon
* rain napper
* rain or shine
* rainout
* rain owl
* rainpants
* rain pit
* rainpour
* rainprint
* rainproof
* rainscald
* rainscape
* rainscreen
* rainshade
* rainshadow
* rain shadow
* rainshower
* rain shower
* rain-slickened
* rainslicker
* rainsoaked, rain-soaked
* rainsome
* rainspout
* rainsquall
* rain stair rods
* rain stick
* rainstick
* rain stopped play
* rainstorm
* rainsuit
* rainswept
* raintight
* raintop
* rain-tree, rain tree
* rain truck
* rainwash
* rainwashed
* rainwater, rain water
* rainwear
* rainworm
* rain-wrapped
* rainy
* rain year
* right as rain
* righter than rain
* ring rain
* small rain lays great dust
* sulfur rain, sulphur rain
* yellow rain

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: alen

##### Translations

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#### Verb

rain (third-person singular simple present rains, present participle raining, simple past and past participle rained)
* (impersonal, meteorology) To have rain fall from the sky.
    Judging by the black cloud, it will rain later today.
* (intransitive, figuratively) To fall as or like rain.
    Tears rained from her eyes.
    Leaves rained from the tree.
    Bombs rained from the sky.
** c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:The rain it raineth every day.
* (transitive, figuratively) To issue (something) in large quantities.
    The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head.

##### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

##### Derived terms

* Also see terms derived from the noun
* berain
* is it going to rain
* it never rains but it pours
* it's raining
* make it rain
* piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining
* rain buckets
* rain cats and dogs, rain dogs and cats
* rain death
* rain death upon
* rain down
* rain fire and brimstone
* rain like cats and dogs
* rain off
* rain on one's parade
* rain on someone's parade
* rain out
* rain pitchforks

##### Translations

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#### See also

* drizzle
* hail
* mizzle
* precipitation
* serein
* shower
* sleet
* snow
* storm
* Rain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

rain (third-person singular simple present rains, present participle raining, simple past and past participle rained)
* Obsolete form of reign.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Such wondrous science in mans witt to rain.

### Anagrams

* Rina, rani, Irân, Nair, ARNI, Îrân, arni, NIRA, Iran, Īrān, Rian, ARIN, airn, RNAi, Rani, Irān, Arin

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French rain, from Old Dutch *rein, *rēn, from Proto-West Germanic *rain (“raised land, baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Germanic *rainaz, *rainō (“baulk, ridge”). Cognate with Dutch reen, rein, German Rain, English rean.

### Noun

rain m (plural rains)
* (geography) a raised border on a field or forest that serves as a boundary

### References

* “rain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Japanese
### Romanization

rain
* Rōmaji transcription of ライン

## Kavalan
### Noun

rain
* waves in the open sea

## Middle English
### Noun

rain
* Alternative form of reyn (“rain”)

## Sera
### Noun

rain
* water

### References

* Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (2010, →ISBN, page 333
* Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

## Sissano
### Noun

rain
* water

### References

* Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)
* John Nystrom, Sissano Organised Phonology Data (1992) (as rayn several times in a story; compare ranrayn "wet")

## Tetum
### Etymology

From the Tetum noun rai.

### Noun

rain
* country