rata

flowers of the southern rata, Metrosideros umbellata

From Maori rātā or cognate Tahitian rātā (tree of genus Metrosideros). Compare Tahitian puarātā (Metrosideros collina).

rata (usually uncountable, plural ratas)

1. (usually countable) Any of various New Zealand plants of the genus Metrosideros
2. (usually uncountable) The hard dark red wood of such trees.

• “rata, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2008.

a rata tree, Garcinia dulcis

Compare Sinhalese රට ගොරකා (raṭa gorakā, “Garcinia xanthochymus”), Marathi रातंबी (rātambī, “Garcinia indica”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

rata (plural ratas)

1. The yellow mangosteen, Garcinia dulcis, a tree native to Indonesia, the Philippines, and India.

   Synonyms: mundu, maphuut, Claudie mangosteen, gourka, eggtree

• Garcinia dulcis at Germplasm Resources Information Network

• Metrosideros on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mangosteen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Metrosideros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Garcinia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• A.A.R.T., ATRA, Arta, Tara, atar, ta-ra, tara

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈra.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ta/

rata f (plural rates)

1. rat

From Proto-Finnic *rata, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *tradō. Cognates include Estonian rada, Livonian radā, Karelian rata (“The Milky Way”), Ingrian rata (“The Milky Way”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑtɑ/, [ˈrɑt̪ɑ]
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑ

rata

1. (rail transport) railroad track
2. (sports) track, lane, course
3. (curling) sheet (area of ice on which one game of curling is played)
4. orbit (path of one object around another)
5. course (sequence of events)

   Kaikki menee normaalia rataansa.

   Everything follows the normal course of events.

6. trajectory, course (path of a body as it travels through space)

• (railroad track): rautatie
• (orbit): kiertorata
• (trajectory): lentorata

• ratas

• -rtaa, arat, atra

rata

1. third-person singular past historic of rater

• tara

rata f (plural ratas)

1. rat

• rato

rata

1. fire

From Old Norse rata, from Proto-Germanic *wratōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta

rata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rataði, supine ratað)

1. to find one’s way
   • Hávamál (English source, Icelandic sourve)

     Vits er þörf

     þeim er víða ratar.

     Dælt er heima hvað.

     Að augabragði verður

     sá er ekki kann

     og með snotrum situr.

     Wits must he have

     who wanders wide,

     But all is easy at home;

     At the witless man

     the wise shall wink

     When among such men he sits.

From Malay rata, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ. Doublet of datar.

rata

1. even
2. flat

   Gempa bumi telah menyebabkan bangunan-bangunan itu menjadi rata dengan tanah.

   An earthquake had been flattened the buildings.

3. smooth

   permukaannya (tidak rata / kasar)

   the surface (is not smooth / is rough)

• datar
• pelat
• mulus
• halus

rata f (plural rate)

1. instalment

• atra, tara

rata

1. Romanization of ꦫꦠ

rata f (plural rates)

1. dose
2. instalment

rata

1. third-person singular present indicative of rater
2. third-person plural present indicative of rater
3. second-person singular imperative of rater

rata

1. nominative feminine singular of ratus
2. nominative neuter plural of ratus
3. accusative neuter plural of ratus
4. vocative feminine singular of ratus
5. vocative neuter plural of ratus

ratā

1. ablative feminine singular of ratus

rata m

1. genitive singular form of rats

rata

1. guest
2. foreigner

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ. Doublet of datar.

rata

1. level, even, flat

• Indonesian: rata

From Sanskrit रथ (ratha).

rata (plural rata-rata, informal first-person possessive rataku, informal second-person possessive ratamu, third-person possessive ratanya)

1. chariot

From Proto-Oceanic *lasa (Compare Fijian lasa).

rata

1. tame
2. quiet

rata f (plural ratas)

1. (Rattus rattus) female black rat

• rata d'aiga

• rat

rata f

1. installment

rata f (plural ratas)

1. female equivalent of rato
2. (informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)

• (woman's genitalia): See here

• IPA^(key): /rǎːta/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta

ráta f (Cyrillic spelling ра́та)

1. installment

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrata/, [ˈrat̪a]

rata (plural ratas)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) stingy, miser, tight-fisted
2. (colloquial, derogatory) rat, jerk (a despicable person, especially who has been deceitful or disloyal)
3. (colloquial, derogatory) rat, snitch, informant

• (stingy): tacaño m, tacaña f, pesetero m, pesetera f
• (stingy): hijo de puta m, hija de puta f
• (snitch): chivato m, chivata f, soplón m, soplona f, delator m, delatora f, sapo m

rata f (plural ratas, masculine rato, masculine plural ratos)

1. rat (a medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus)

• matarratas
• ratear
• ratón
• ratonearse
• ratero
• raticida

From Old Norse hrata. Cognate with Icelandic hrata (“to lose balance”) and Old English hratian (“to hurry”).

rata

1. to reject

• avslå
• försmå
• kassera
• skrota
• underkänna
• vraka

• anta
• godta
• ta
• välja

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ta/

go rata (past ratile)

1. to love
2. to like

Borrowed from Russian страдать (stradatʹ). Compare Finnish raataa, Karelian ruadua and Ludian ruata.

rata

1. to work
2. to toil
3. to act (perform an action)

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