ra

Third third singular aorist (active voice) of bie (active voice). More at rashë, bie.

ra (first-person singular past tense rashë, participle rënë)

1. it fell (off)
2. it tumbled, flopped
3. it striked, punched, struck
4. it rained (combined with shi (“rain”)
5. it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”)

   (Ra shi., It rained.)

   (Literally: It fell rain.)

   (Ra borë., It snowed.)

   (Literally: It fell snow.)

• rashë
• bie

• IPA^(key): /ə̆ɾaḁ/

ra

1. bone

ra

1. they
2. they are

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

ra m

1. king

• ree (obsolete, dialectal)

From Middle Dutch ra.

• IPA^(key): /raː/

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• Hyphenation: ra
• Rhymes: -aː

ra f (plural ra's, diminutive raatje n)

1. (nautical) spar (horizontal beam or pole of a ship's mastwork)

• razeil

ra

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

• arrán, ran

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː/

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese rãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rana.

ra f (plural ras)

1. frog

• Camporrairo
• Portorrairo
• Rairos
• Vilarrairo

• “rãa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “rãa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “ra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “ra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

ra

1. Rōmaji transcription of ら
2. Rōmaji transcription of ラ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq (compare Hiligaynon dugo, Ilocano dara, Indonesian darah, Malay darah, Maori tuto, Nauruan ara, Rapa Nui tuto, Tagalog dugo, Tahitian tuto, West Coast Bajau darag (“red”)).

ra

1. blood

From Arabic رَأَى‎ (raʾā).

• IPA^(key): /raː/
• Homophone: ragħa

ra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)

1. to see

From Old English hrēaw.

ra

1. Alternative form of raw

From Old English rā.

ra

1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

ra

1. clear plain

• 2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.

From Middle Vietnamese 𦋦 (ra), from Proto-Vietic *-saː, cognate with Tho /ʂaː¹/ and Muong tha.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]

ra (𦋦)

1. to go out, to leave
2. to go northwards in Vietnam

   vào nam, ra bắc

   to go southwards and northwards

3. to be released, to be out

• Sometimes the verb đi ("to go") is used for emphasis when appended to ra, forming đi ra to mean "go even further out". However, this usage may vary from dialect to dialect.

• đi

• vào

• cửa ra vào
• tìm ra
• Đàng Ngoài

From French drap.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧] ~ [zaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˧˧]
• Phonetic: Ra

(classifier tấm) ra

1. bed sheet

• IPA^(key): [ráː], [rǽː] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -ǽð

From Old Norse hraðr.

ra (comparative radänä, superlative radäst, neuter radt)

1. quick

   Hä var int radt dill å få.

   It could not be obtained soon.

   Hä jär radänä sagdt än gjohdt.

   It is easier said than done.

   oradt

   not near, not at hand, not easily or quickly done

2. straight

• rabädh (“(crop) harvested in a short time”)
• radt (“easy; readily at hand”)
• radt dill (“convenient, handy, easily and quickly enforceable”)
• rafyri/rafuri/raförä (“convenient to travel; which can quickly be fared; on which you can quickly travel”)

From Old Norse rǫð.

ra f (definite singular rada, plural rɑda)

1. row, line, sequence

• rada (“put in a row”)
• rɑda (“control (a toboggan or sled) down a hill so that it does not overturn or swerve”)

ra

1. the (definite article)

The article follows the noun it modifies.

• John E. Koontz, Winnebago, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, page 317

ra

1. (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense