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ra

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ra"
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English

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Interjection

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ra

  1. Alternative spelling of rah (“exclamation of encouragement”)
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 140:
      "You guys are doing great. Ra ra ra! Go get 'em, guys."
    • 2016, Angie Derek, Mafia Secret:
      Ra-ra and all that. So cheerleaders have a harder time climbing flights of stairs?
    • 2022, Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap, second edition, page 235:
      "Ra! Ra! You can do it! Ra! Ra! Just get to it!"

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Inflection of bie.

Verb

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ra

  1. it fell (off)
  2. it tumbled, flopped
  3. it struck, punched
  4. it rained (combined with shi (“rain”))
    Ra shi.
    It rained.
    (literally, “It fell rain.”)
  5. it snowed (combined with borë (“snow”))
    Ra borë.
    It snowed.
    (literally, “It fell snow.”)
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Anguthimri

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Noun

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ra

  1. (Mpakwithi) stomach

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ra

  1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to wash
  2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to rub

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  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188

Atampaya

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ra

  1. throw
  2. spill

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  • Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 537

Borôro

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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ra

  1. bone

Cebuano

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Etymology

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Originally an allophone of obsolete da (“idem”). Compare Tausug da (“only; just”) and the daw~raw distinction in Tagalog.

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Adverb

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ra (Badlit spelling ᜇ)

  1. (after the first word of a sentence) only, just, nothing else
    Synonyms: lamang, lang
    Kani ra ang puti ― This is the only white one.
  2. (after an adjective indicating a greater nature) too, so, but not too much
    Synonym: kaayo
    Dako ra ang sapatos para nako. ― The shoes are quite big for me.
  3. (with a verb, after a pronoun) expresses an action done by someone alone; to do by oneself
    Siya ray naglaba sa tanang labhonon. ― He did all the laundry by himself.
  4. (after a verb in the prospective aspect) indicates that the action is certain to happen
    Moanhi ra 'na. ― He'll come. (So don't worry)
  5. (after an imperative verb) used to soften a command
    Ambi ra gud ang remote. ― Let me have the remote.

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Chuukese

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

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ra

  1. they
  2. they are

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun

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ra m

  1. king

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Alternative forms

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  • ree (obsolete, dialectal)

Etymology

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From Middle Dutch ra, from Proto-Germanic *rahō. Cognate with German Rah, Old Norse rá.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /raː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ra
  • Rhymes: -aː
  • Homophone: Rha

Noun

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ra f (plural ra's, diminutive raatje n)

  1. (nautical) spar (horizontal beam or pole of a ship's mastwork)

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Egyptian

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Romanization

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ra

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of rꜥ.

Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese rãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rana.

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Noun

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ra f (plural ras)

  1. frog

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French rare.

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Adjective

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ra

  1. rare, uncommon

References

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  • Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Japanese

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Romanization

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ra

  1. The hiragana syllable ら (ra) or the katakana syllable ラ (ra) in Hepburn romanization.

Malagasy

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun

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ra

  1. blood

Maltese

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Root
w-r-j
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Etymology

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From Arabic رَأَى (raʔā). An oft-cited archaism in Maltese as the verb has been displaced in most contemporary dialects (some preserved it though like the dialect of Sfax/Tunisia). The peculiar use of the imperative is similar to Maghrebi forms like راني (rāni) etc., which ultimately developed into pronouns.

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Verb

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ra (imperfect jara, past participle muri)

  1. to see
  2. (imperative) look!, behold!; often construed with a pronominal suffix referring to the subject of the following context
    • c. 2015, Il-Bibbja : il-Kotba Mqaddsa, 5th edition, Valletta: Ghaqda Biblika Maltija, →OCLC, Il-Ktieb tal-Profeta Eżekjel 29:3:
      Tkellem u għid: Dan jgħid Sidi l-Mulej: Arani kontrik, ja Fargħun, sultan tal-Eġittu, il-kukkudrill il-kbir imxaħxaħ f’nofs in-Nil, li qal: ‘Tiegħi n-Nil. Jien għamiltu.’
      New International Version translation: Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, “The Nile belongs to me;

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of ra
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m rajt rajt ra rajna rajtu raw
f rat
imperfect m nara tara jara naraw taraw jaraw
f tara
imperative ara araw

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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ra

  1. Alternative form of raw

Etymology 2

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Noun

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ra

  1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Mokilese

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Etymology

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Cognate with Woleaian ra (“branch”)

Noun

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ra

  1. branch

Inflection

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Possessive forms of ra (loose inalienable possession, -ah stem)
singular possessor first person rahioa
second person rahmwen
third person rah
dual possessors first person inclusive rahsa
first person exclusive rahma
second person rahmwa
third person rahra
plural possessors first person inclusive rahsai
first person exclusive rahmai
second person rahmwai
third person rahrai
remote plural possessors first person inclusive rahs
first person exclusive rahmi
second person rahmwi
third person rahr
construct form rahn

Moore

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Etymology

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Compare Farefare da (“to buy”)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ra (progressive raada)

  1. to buy

Nyunga

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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ra

  1. clear plain

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Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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A contraction of earlier rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, *raih, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą. The 5th-century runic form ᚱᚨᛇᚺᚨᚾ (raïhan) is possibly an ancestor of this word, but may be North Germanic instead.

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Noun

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rā m (nominative plural rān)

  1. roe deer, roebuck

Declension

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Declension of rā (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative rā rān
accusative rān rān
genitive rān rāna
dative rān rām, rāum

Descendants

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  • Middle English: ro, roo (northern ra, raa)

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Pali

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Etymology

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Probably from the pronunciation of a syllable consisting only of the letter.

Noun

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ra m

  1. the Pali letter 'r'
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ‎[2], page 4; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, स, ह, ळ, ं। इति व्यञ्जन नाम होन्ति।
      Ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa, ca, cha, ja, jha, ña, ṭa, ṭha, ḍa, ḍha, ṇa, ta, tha, da, dha, na, pa, pha, ba, bha, ma, ya, ra, la, va, sa, ha, ḷa, aṃ, iti vyañjanā nāma honti.
      'k', 'kh', 'g', 'gh', 'ṅ', 'c', 'ch', 'j', 'jh', 'ñ, 'ṭ', 'ṭh', 'ḍ', 'ḍh', 'ṇ', 't', 'th', 'd', 'dh', 'n', 'p', 'ph', 'b', 'bh', 'm', 'y', 'r', 'l', 'v', 's', 'h', 'ḷ' and 'ṃ', these are the consonants by name.
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ‎[3], page 12; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      लो रस्स यथा-महासालो।
      Lo rassa yathā mahāsālo.
      'L' from 'r' as in 'mahāsālo'.

Declension

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Declension table of "ra" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingular
Nominative (first)ro
Accusative (second)raṃ
Instrumental (third)rena
Dative (fourth)rassa or rāya or ratthaṃ
Ablative (fifth)rasmā or ramhā or rā
Genitive (sixth)rassa
Locative (seventh)rasmiṃ or ramhi or re
Vocative (calling)ra

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Scots

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Determiner

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ra

  1. (colloquial) Glaswegian form of the

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  • Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.

Sumerian

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Romanization

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ra

  1. Romanization of 𒊏 (ra)

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da).

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Noun

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ra (Baybayin spelling ᜇ)

  1. the name of the Latin-script letter R/r, in the Abakada alphabet
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) ar, (in the Abecedario) ere

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Further reading

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  • “ra”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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Tat

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Etymology

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Cognate with Persian راه (rah).

Noun

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ra

  1. road

Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Vietnamese 𦋦 (ra), from Proto-Vietic *-saː, cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] saː¹ and Muong tha.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 亇些, phonetic 個些 (MC kaH sjae) (modern SV: cá ta).

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ra • (𦋦, 𫥧, 𬎷, 𠚢, 𪞷, 𪡔, 囉, 𫥨, 𬙛)

  1. to go out, to leave
    Antonyms: vào, vô
    • Copy from 18th century, Urtext probably from 12th or 15th century, Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經):
      雷(Lôi)亇些(ra)礼(lưỡi)𢪀(nghỉ)曳(dài)林(trăm)由(do)旬(tuần)
      Pull out his 100 yojanas long tongue.
  2. (by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam
    Antonyms: vào, vô
    vào nam, ra bắc ― to go southwards and northwards
  3. to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
    Phim này mới ra nè.
    Hey, this movie has just came out.
  4. to become, to turn into
    Nó chẳng ra gì hết.
    He didn't turn out to be anybody.
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  • Sometimes the verb đi (“to go”) is used for emphasis when appended to ra, forming đi ra to mean "go even further out". However, this usage may vary from dialect to dialect.
  • Ra is used after an adjective to indicate a positive development of a character or state of a person or thing.
Cô ấy dạo này trẻ ra. ― She is getting younger these days.
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Etymology 2

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From French drap.

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Noun

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(classifier tấm) ra

  1. bed sheet

Winnebago

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Etymology

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Article

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ra

  1. the (definite article)

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The article follows the noun it modifies.

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  • John E. Koontz, Winnebago, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, page 317

Woleaian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Mokilese ra (“branch”)

Noun

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ra

  1. branch

Yapese

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Etymology

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Verb

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ra

  1. (auxiliary) will; forms the future tense

Yoruba

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Etymology 1

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Determiner

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ra

  1. (Ekiti, Western Akoko) our, ours, us
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  • Not used by the Akure subdialect of Ekiti, which uses ria.

Etymology 2

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Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *là, cognate with Igala là, Olukumi la

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Verb

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rà

  1. (transitive, ditransitive) to buy

Etymology 3

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Verb

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rá

  1. to crawl

Etymology 4

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Verb

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rà

  1. to rot, to decay
    Synonym: jẹrà

Etymology 5

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Particle

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ra

  1. (Ekiti) not (placed before a verb to negate it, often used after personal pronouns)
    Wẹ́ ra kú ― You will not die!

Zaghawa

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Conjunction

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ra

  1. and (used for people)
    adoum ra hawa ra - Adam and Eve
  2. and (after words ending in a vowel)
    Sabit da Arbaha ra - Saturday and Wednesday

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Zaghawa conjunctions come after all words they group. Thus, Adam and Eve is 'adoum ra hawa ra', not *adoum ra hawa, as the literal English translation would be.

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da

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Zhuang

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). See da for more.

Noun

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ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. (Wuming dialect) eye
    Synonym: da

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Tai *kraᴬ (“to seek”).

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ra (Sawndip forms 𫽋 or 𥅂 or ⿱彐拉 or 逻 or 啰 or ⿱找下 or 拉 or 而 or ⿰目找, 1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. to look for; to find; to search

Etymology 3

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ra (1957–1982 spelling ra)

  1. to earn (money); to make (money)
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