ran

• IPA^(key): /ɹæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

ran

1. simple past tense of rin
2. simple past tense of run
3. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of run
   • 2012, Helen Summer, Running Crazy - Imagine Running a Marathon. Now Imagine Running Over 100 of Them. Incredible True Stories from the World’s Most Fanatical Runners. John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, no page number:

     I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.

ran (uncountable)

1. (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

From Old English ran; compare with Danish ran and Norwegian Bokmål ran.

ran (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Open robbery.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Lambarde to this entry?)

• Arn, NRA, RNA

ran

1. (Uri) lanky, slender

• “ran” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 63.

• IPA^(key): /rɑn/, [ˈrɑn]

ran

1. water

• Arop-Lokep, in The Oceanic Languages →ISBN, Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross), page 257: ran ki "his water"
• Stephen George Parker, Phonological Descriptions of Papua New Guinea Languages (2005)

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈran/

ran

1. Alternative form of arran

• ran de

ran

1. day, daylight

From Old Norse rán.

• IPA^(key): /raːn/, [ʁɑːˀn]

ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)

1. open theft

ran

1. imperative of rane

Shortened form of heran.

• IPA^(key): [ʁan]

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• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: rann

ran

1. (colloquial) near, close to, over to

• ran in Duden online

ran

1. water

• Thomas Edward Dutton, ‎Darrell T. Tryon, Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World (1994)

ran

1. Rōmaji transcription of らん

ran

1. water

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 59

ran

1. water

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Verna, page 59, 2012

ran

1. Nonstandard spelling of rán.
2. Nonstandard spelling of rǎn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

ran

1. water

• Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley et Meredith Osmond (eds), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, 545-2. Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, page 59

From Old Norse rán

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana or ranene)

1. a robbery

• bankran

• rane

ran

1. imperative of rane

• “ran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse rán

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana)

1. a robbery

• bankran

• “ran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ran/

ran

1. genitive plural of rana

ran

1. genitive plural of rano

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ (Russian ранний (ránnij), Polish rano).

• IPA^(key): /râːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

rȃn (definite rȃnī, comparative rànijī, Cyrillic spelling ра̑н)

1. early
2. premature

• (early): kȁsan

• “ran” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ

• IPA^(key): /ˈráːn/
• Tonal orthography: rȃn

rán (comparative ránejši, superlative nàjránejši)

1. early

From English run.

ran

1. To run
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:14:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

ran

1. water

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹaːŋ˧˧]

ran

1. to resound; to spread widely

ran

1. Soft mutation of rhan.