raad

Borrowed from Arabic رَعْد‎ (raʿd, “thunder”).

raad

1. The electric catfish.
   • 1858, George Wilson, “On the electric fishes as the earliest electric machines employed by mankind”, in The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, volume 3:

     "It might reasonably be expected," says Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, "that the raad, or electric fish of the Nile, would be one of the most sacred, and forbidden for food; and it seems not to be represented among those caught in the ancient fishing scenes." He adds regarding the raad:—"It is a small fish, and the one I saw measured little more than a foot long by four inches in depth, but it had the power of giving a very strong shock. It is the Melapterurus electricus, and may have been the ancient Latus."

• ADAR, Adar, Dara, Draa, Drâa, Rada, arad, rada

• IPA^(key): /raːt/

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• Hyphenation: raad
• Rhymes: -aːt

From Middle Dutch râet, from Old Dutch rāt, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz.

raad m (plural raden, diminutive raadje n)

1. advice
2. council; committee that leads or governs

• advies

• raden

raad

1. first-person singular present indicative of raden
2. imperative of raden

• Aard, aard, daar

From Old Irish rót (“road; highway”).

• IPA^(key): /reːd̪/, /raːd̪/

raad m (genitive singular raaidjey, plural raaidjyn)

1. road, roadway

   T'eh cummal tessyn yn raad. ― He lives across the road.

   Hie eh er y raad aggairagh. ― He took the wrong road.

   Ta raad aym ry hooyl. ― I have a road to walk.

   Haink dubbaghyn fliaghee er y raad. ― Pools of rain formed on the road.

2. trail, track

   V'eh er y raad kiart. ― He was on the right track.

3. way, route, direction

   Hug eh shilley stiagh 'sy çhapp er e raad er ash. ― He dropped into the shop on his way back.

   Ta mee goll er y raad s'girrey. ― I'm going by the shortest route.

   Yiare eh raad da hene trooid y chionnal. ― He forced his way through the crowd.

• (road, roadway): bayr

• fo-raad (“branch, secondary road”)

raad (verbal noun raadey, past participle raadit)

1. (intransitive) anchor

• “1 rót” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

raad (definite accusative raadı, plural {{{2}}})

1. (Internet) Alternative form of rahat

   Raad ol reyiz.