rand

• IPA^(key): /ɹænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

From Middle English, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rent- (“to cut, square”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). More at rind.

rand (plural rands)

1. (obsolete except in dialects) the border of an area of land, especially marsh-land
2. (obsolete except in dialects) a strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.

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3. (regional) A border, edge or rim.

   At the wald's rand.

4. a strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe
5. (basket-making) a single rod woven in and out of the stakes

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.

rand (plural rands or rand)

1. a rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

• Wikipedia article on the rand

See rant.

rand (third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed)

1. (obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • J. Webster

     I wept, […] and raved, randed, and railed.

• DNAR, DNRA, Nard, andr-, darn, nard, rDNA, rdna

From Dutch rand, from Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

rand (plural rande or rand)

1. edge, border
2. rand (currency)

From Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

• IPA^(key): /rɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: rand
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

rand m (plural randen, diminutive randje n)

1. edge, brink, rim

• bosrand
• grasrand
• randcrimineel
• randdebiel
• randfiguur
• rouwrand
• stoeprand

• Afrikaans: rand

From either Proto-Balto-Slavic *kranta or Proto-Norse [script needed] (*stranđa). Compare German Strand (“beach”), Lithuanian krantas (“beach, shore”) and Finnish ranta (“shore, beach, bank”).

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

1. beach

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (currency)

Related to Finnish ranta.

rand

1. shore

rand m

1. bay (herb)

From Old Norse rǫnd

rand f or m (definite singular randa or randen, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. edge
2. brim (e.g. of a glass)

• randhav

From Afrikaans rand (named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district)

rand m (definite singular randen, indefinite plural rand, definite plural randene)

1. a rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

From Old Norse rǫnd

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. edge
2. brim (e.g. of a glass)

• randhav

From Afrikaans rand (named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district)

rand m (definite singular randen, indefinite plural rand, definite plural randane)

1. a rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

From Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō, from Proto-Indo-European *rent- (“cut”).

• IPA^(key): /rɑnd/

rand m (nominative plural randas)

1. edge, brink, margin
2. (poetic) boss (of a shield); shield

   He under rande gecranc: he sank under his shield. (Beowulf)

• English: rand

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (currency unit of South Africa)

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rand c

1. edge, border
2. stripe, streak

Related to Estonian rand and Finnish ranta.

rand

1. coast, shore
2. beach
3. end, edge, boundary
4. land, country

• randaline
• randatoi
• randišt
• kodirand
• kül'bendrand
• randird

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “берег, край, сторона”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Related to Estonian rand and Finnish ranta.

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

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2. beach, shore

• viiviir'

• Elevandiluurand

• IPA^(key): /rɑːn/, /rɒnː/, /ræ̃ːt/, /rɑ̃ːt/, /rẽːd/

  Rhymes: -and

From Old Norse rǫnd.

rand m (definite plural ranän)

1. A rafter under the roof, on which wood is set to dry.
2. (plural) Rafters between the walls of an outhouse at a fair distance from the floor and apart from each other, to set upon any tools during seasons when not in use, or anything else one wishes to be rid of; scaffolding under the roof for laying up firewood, timber, etc.

From Old Norse rǫnd.

rand f (definite plural rendren)

1. Potato trench.
2. Stripe, streak.
3. (figuratively) A streak, a tendency or characteristic.

• dagsrand
• pär-rand
• randgäl
• randut

rand n

1. An aspen or birch circle bound together with root fibres, which with a cow udder is made a sieve.