рать

From Proto-Slavic *ortь.

рать • (ratĭ) f

1. war
2. battle
3. enemy army

From Proto-Slavic *ortь. Related to реть (retĭ, “quarrel, competition”).

Cognates include Sanskrit ऋति (ṛti, “assault”), Sanskrit ऋतीयते (ṛtīyate, “to quarrel, to hate”), Sanskrit समरण (samaraṇa, “war, strife”), Ancient Greek ἔρῐς (éris, “strife, quarrel”) and Proto-Germanic *ernustuz (see there for further descendants)

• IPA^(key): [ratʲ]

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• Rhymes: -atʲ

рать • (ratʹ) f inan (genitive ра́ти, nominative plural ра́ти, genitive plural ра́тей)

1. (archaic or folk poetic) army, host, array
2. (archaic or folk poetic) battle, war

• во́йско (vójsko)
• би́тва (bítva), война́ (vojná)

• ра́тник (rátnik)
• ра́тный (rátnyj)
• сора́тник m (sorátnik)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “рать”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress