ras

From Amharic ራስ (rās, “head”).

ras (plural rases)

1. An Ethiopian king or prince.
2. A headland; a cape.

• ARS, ARs, ASR, RSA, SAR, Sar, Sar., ars, asr

• IPA^(key): /raːs/, [ʁɑːˀs]

ras

1. imperative of rase

• IPA^(key): /rɑs/

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• Rhymes: -ɑs

Borrowing from French race.

ras n (plural rassen, diminutive rasje n)

1. race, breed

• rasecht

From Middle Dutch rasch, from Old Dutch *rasc, from Proto-Germanic *raskuz. Cognates include English rash, German rasch.

ras (comparative rasser, superlative meest ras or rast)

1. (dated) quick

• alras

From Amharic.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑs/

ras m (plural ras)

1. ras

From Old French rés (remodelled after raser), itself from Latin rāsus. Doublet of rez.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ/

ras (feminine singular rase, masculine plural ras, feminine plural rases)

1. short
2. close-cropped (of hair etc.)

• à ras de
• au ras de
• à ras bord

• rez

• “ras” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Amharic ራስ (ras, “head”), from Proto-Semitic *raʾš- (“head”).

• IPA^(key): /ras/, [r̺äs̪]
• Stress: ràs
• Hyphenation: ras

ras m (invariable)

1. (historical) Title of the second-highest grade in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Empire; ras
2. (figuratively, derogatory) Any small local authority who exercises power despotically.
   1. A local boss of organized crime.
   2. (historical) A Fascist party official.

• (Fascist official): gerarca

• rais

• negus
• degiac (ethiopian commander of a unit equivalent to a regiment, composed of two to three thousand men)

ras

1. third-person singular future of rasti
2. third-person plural future of rasti

From Arabic رَأْس‎ (raʾs), from Proto-Semitic *raʾš- (“head”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɐːs/

ras f (plural rjus)

1. (anatomy) head
2. beginning

From Old Norse ras, compare with the verb rase

ras n (definite singular raset, indefinite plural ras, definite plural rasa or rasene)

1. an avalanche, landslide, landslip

• skred

• jordras
• snøras
• steinras

ras

1. imperative of rase

• “ras” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ras_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse ras, compare with rase

ras n (definite singular raset, indefinite plural ras, definite plural rasa)

1. an avalanche, landslide, landslip

• skred

• jordras
• snøras
• steinras

• “ras” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

ras

1. genitive plural of rasa

From Latin rāsus.

• IPA^(key): /ras/
• Rhymes: -as

ras (past participle of rade)

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ras m or n (feminine singular rasă, masculine plural rași, feminine and neuter plural rase)

1. shaved, shaven

• neras

• rade
• răsură

From rasar, from raso (“level”).

• IPA^(key): /ras/

ras m (plural rases)

1. evenness, levelness

• a ras
• a ras de tierra

• “ras” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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From Old Norse rás (“race”), from Proto-Germanic *rēsō.

ras c

1. a race (a large group of individuals of the same species set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)

Verbal noun of rasa. Compare Danish and Norwegian ras.

ras n

1. a collapse (of a building)
2. a mudslide (geological disaster)
3. a cave in, a collapse inward or downward
4. a fall (of stock market values)

• ras in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

From Old Norse ras n (“impetuosity, hurry.”)

ras n

1. Hurry, urgency.

   Han gjol alltihopän fälut i ett ras ― He completed all of it at once, without interruption.

• rassan
• rasvill
• röso