rá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ra"

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɔɑː/
Rhymes: -ɔɑː
Homophone: ráð
Rhymes: -ɔaː

Adjective

rá

inflection of ráur:
1. indefinite feminine nominative singular
2. indefinite neuter nominative/accusative plural

Galician

Alternative forms

arrá, arrán, ran

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈraː/

Noun

rá f (plural rás)

frog
Synonyms: agano, aganón, carranco, zampesa

Derived terms

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rãa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rãa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rá”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rá”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rá”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Hungarian

Pronominal adverbs from case suffixes (cf. postpositions)
ed	suffix	who?	what?	this	that	he/she (it)*
case	suffix	who?	what?	this	that	he/she (it)*	v. pr.	c.
nom.	–	ki	mi	ez	az	ő* / -∅ az / -∅	–	–
acc.	-t / -ot / -at / -et / -öt	kit	mit	ezt	azt	őt* / -∅ azt / -∅	–	c₁ c₂
dat.	-nak / -nek	kinek	minek	ennek	annak	neki	neki-	c
ins.	-val / -vel	kivel	mivel	ezzel/ evvel	azzal/ avval	vele		c
c-f.	-ért	kiért	miért	ezért	azért	érte	–	c
tra.	-vá / -vé	kivé	mivé	ezzé	azzá	–	–	c
ter.	-ig	–	meddig	eddig	addig	–	–	c
e-f.	-ként	(kiként)	(miként)	ekként	akként	–	–	c
e-m.	-ul / -ül	–	–	–	–	–	–	c
ine.	-ban / -ben	kiben	miben	ebben	abban	benne	–	c
sup.	-n/-on/-en/-ön	kin	min	ezen	azon	rajta	(rajta-)	c
ade.	-nál / -nél	kinél	minél	ennél	annál	nála	–	c
ill.	-ba / -be	kibe	mibe	ebbe	abba	bele	bele-	c
sub.	-ra / -re	kire	mire	erre	arra	rá	rá-	c
all.	-hoz/-hez/-höz	kihez	mihez	ehhez	ahhoz	hozzá	hozzá-	c
el.	-ból / -ből	kiből	miből	ebből	abból	belőle	–	c
del.	-ról / -ről	kiről	miről	erről	arról	róla	–	c
abl.	-tól / -től	kitől	mitől	ettől	attól	tőle	–	c
: Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. – Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All »*

Alternative forms

reá (archaic)
őrá (emphatic; only of human beings)

Etymology

Shortened from reá.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈraː]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -raː

Pronoun

rá

upon/on/unto him/her/it
Ne szórd rá a homokot! ― Don’t throw sand on her!

Gondolsz néha rá? ― Do you ever think of him?

Senki sem emlékszik rá. ― No one remembers her.

Usage notes

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with rá-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see rá-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

Declension

Inflection of rá

person	singular	plural
1st	rám / énrám	ránk / miránk
2nd	rád / terád	rátok / tirátok
3rd	rá, rája / őrá, őrája	rájuk / őrájuk

Derived terms

alszik rá egyet (“to sleep on it”)
spongyát rá (“let bygones be bygones”)
mérget vehet rá (“to bet one's boots, to bet the farm”)

Adverb

rá

Synonym of később, later (after -ra/-re for the amount of time passed; usually of days or longer periods)
Húsz évre rá (= Húsz évvel később) ― Twenty years later

References

^ rá in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

Anagrams

ár

Irish

Alternative forms

rádh (obsolete)
ráit (Ulster)^[1]^[2]

Etymology

From Old Irish rád^[3] (compare Scottish Gaelic ràdh), from the verb ráidid (“talks”), from Proto-Celtic *rādīti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“perform successfully”). Cognate with Sanskrit राध्नोति (rādhnoti, “succeeds”), Old Church Slavonic радити (raditi, “take care of, work”), Gothic 𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (rōdjan, “talk”), Lithuanian rodýti (“show”).

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɾˠɑː/^[4]^[5]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɾˠaː/

Noun

rá m (genitive singular as substantive rá, genitive as verbal noun ráite, nominative plural ráite)

verbal noun of abair
saying, quote

Declension

As substantive:

Declension of rá (fourth declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	rá	ráite
vocative	a rá	a ráite
genitive	rá	ráite
dative	rá	ráite

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an rá	na ráite
genitive	an rá	na ráite
dative	leis an rá don rá	leis na ráite

As verbal noun:

Declension of rá (irregular, no plural)

bare forms
case	singular
nominative	rá
vocative	a rá
genitive	ráite
dative	rá

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an rá
genitive	an ráite
dative	leis an rá don rá

Derived terms

comhrá

References

^ “ráit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, page 46
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 82, page 44
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 78

Kaingang

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾʌ/, [ʌˈɾʌ]

Noun

rá

writing; text
sign

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą, cognate with English roe, German Reh. Cf. Proto-Norse ᚱᚨᛇᚺᚨᚾ (raïhan) written on the 5th-century Caistor-by-Norwich astragalus.

Noun

rá f

deer

Descendants

Icelandic: rá
Faroese: rá
Norwegian:
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rå
Old Swedish: rā
- Swedish: rå
Danish: rå

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *rahō, cognate with Middle Low German rā, German Rah.

Noun

rá f (genitive rár, plural rár or ráar)

sail-yard

Derived terms

Descendants

Norwegian: rå
Swedish: rå
Danish: rå

Etymology 3

From earlier vrá, from Proto-Germanic *wranhō (“angle, corner, nook”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrónkeh₂, possibly cognate with Latvian ròka (“arm, hand”), Lithuanian rankà, Russian рука́ (ruká) and possibly also, via Gaulish, French branche (“branch”).

Alternative forms

vrá, vá

Noun

rá f

corner, nook
angle

Usage notes

Given as an example of a word with a nasal vowel in the First Grammatical Treatise, and contrasted with the non-nasal rá ‘sailyard’.

Descendants

Icelandic: rá
Faroese: vrá
Norwegian Nynorsk: ro
Swedish: vrå
Danish: vrå
→ Middle English: wro
- English: wroo
- Scots: wray

Vietnamese

Etymology

Possibly from Old Chinese 籮 (OC *raːl, “bamboo basket”) (Zhengzhang) (SV: la).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaː˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaː˨˩˦]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹaː˦˥]

Noun

(classifier cái) rá • (𥯊)

bamboo basket

Derived terms

rổ rá

[1] rá in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

[2] “ráit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

[3] Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, page 46

[4] Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[5] Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 82, page 44

[6] Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 78

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rá

Faroese

Pronunciation

Adjective

Galician

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Etymology

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Noun

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Hungarian

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Pronoun

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Declension

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Adverb

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Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Alternative forms

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Noun

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Kaingang

Pronunciation

Noun

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Noun

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

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Descendants

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Noun

Usage notes

Descendants

Vietnamese

Etymology

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