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Translingual
Etymology 1
See also
- (Latin script): Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Sſs Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
- (Variations of letter R): Ŕŕ Řř Ṙṙ Ŗŗ Ȑȑ Ȓȓ Ṛṛ Ṝṝ Ṟṟ Ɍɍ Ɽɽ ᵲ ᶉ ɼ ɾ ᵳ ʀ Rr
- (select symbols) ® ℝ ɻ r̃
- (other scripts) Cyrillic р (r) я (ja), Greek ρ (r, “rho”), Hebrew ר (r, “resh”), Hangeul ㄹ (r, “rieul”)
- dog's letter
Pronunciation
IPA (file)
Symbol
r
Synonyms
- (Romanization of רּ, “reish”, “resh”, “rēš ḥāzāq”): rr (in the Hebrew Academy (1953 and 2006) and ISO 259 transliteration schemes)
Gallery
- Capital and lowercase versions of R, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase R in Fraktur
See also
Other representations of R:
English
Etymology 1
Old English lower case letter r, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case r of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚱ.
Pronunciation
- (letter name):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑː(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹ/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /ɔɹ/
- (AAVE) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹə/
- (phoneme): (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ɹ/ or a lengthening of the previous vowel, (rhotic) IPA(key): /ɹ/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file)
Letter
See also
Number
r (lower case, upper case R)
- The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.
Verb
r
- (abbreviation, slang, text messaging, Internet) are (in text messaging and internet conversations)
- How r u — “How are you?”
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛr
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛr/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Egyptian
Etymology 1
The actual reading of this word is uncertain, as it is always written as an ideogram, but evidence from Coptic suggests the original was rꜣ.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ɾaʀ/ → /ɾaʀ/ → /ɾaʔ/[1]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: er
- (modern Egyptological, US) IPA(key): /ɝ/
Noun
m
- division, opening
- mouth
- Stela of Hekaib, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, AP 78:
- jnk nḏs jqr ḏd m r(ꜣ).f
- I was an excellent individual; one who spoke with his own mouth.
- Stela of Hekaib, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, AP 78:
- entrance
- utterance, statement
- part, piece
- used as a numerator of 1 in fractions, literally “piece of (the denominator)”.
- 12th Dynasty, Siut Tomb I, 285, published in Griffith, Francis Llewellyn, The inscriptions of Siûṭ and Dêr Rîfeh:
- r(ꜣ) ḫmtw-št sjsjw
- 1⁄360
- 12th Dynasty, Siut Tomb I, 285, published in Griffith, Francis Llewellyn, The inscriptions of Siûṭ and Dêr Rîfeh:
Etymology 2
Possibly cognate to Hebrew אֶל (ʾel, “to, at”), Arabic إِلَى (ʾilā, “to, until, near”).[2]
Preposition
- regarding, with respect to, concerning, according to
- in order to, for (the purpose of)
- (with following infinitive) forms the periphrastic prospective of a verb
- against
- from, apart from (ablative)
- (with verbs of motion, of places) to, towards
- (in adverbial sentences, of places, roles, or functions) headed for, destined for, bound for
- (of time) at, in, on
- (after an adjective or adverb, forming the comparative) than, by comparison to
- (generally in sentence-initial form jr) introduces the protasis of a conditional sentence; if, when, as
- (with a verb in the terminative as object) until
Alternative forms
jr | |||
at the beginning of a sentence, and occasionally before pronouns |
Derived terms
Particle
enclitic
Usage notes
This usage is distinguished from the preposition by the fact that it occurs as the enclitic second element in a clause instead of at the end of a clause, as is otherwise the case with prepositional phrases.
Alternative forms
References
- Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 429
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 42
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 15
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹ/
Finnish
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Fula
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾ/
Gothic
Ido
Italian
Latvian
Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɾ]
Malay
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Mandarin
Norwegian
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ærː/, /æɾː/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /r/, /ɾ/, /ʁ/
Usage notes
- /ʁ/ is the pronunciation of r usually found in southern and southeastern dialects of Norway. Bergen has the dialect best known for this sound. Said to come from Danish and/or German, originally from French.
- Dialects with /ʁ/ do not have retroflex consonants.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re/, /er/
Spanish
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɾ/, /r/
- (letter name) IPA(key): /ˈere/
Audio (Spain) (file)
- IPA(key): /ˈeɾe/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Turkish
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Zulu
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)