raña

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rana"

Galician

Alternative forms

• ranha (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Uncertain. From the same origin of rañar, Spanish arañar and Portuguese arranhar.

Starting with the sense of "mange" or "scabies", more likely from Latin arānea (“spiderweb”), and thus a doublet of araña. Compare Romanian râie (“mange, scabies”), also Portuguese ronha, Spanish roña, Catalan ronya, French rogne, Italian rogna, all with the same meaning and derived from a related Vulgar Latin root *aronea or *ronea. Alternatively, possibly derived from the verb rañar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraɲa̝/

Noun

raña f (plural rañas)

1. gully
2. riprap, breakwater
3. grump, moaner; whiner, grumbler
4. rowan, service tree
5. cheat, trick
6. iron pronged fork
7. mange, scabies

Derived terms

• Raña
• Rañadoiro
• rañar
• Rañó
• Rañoa

Adjective

raña m or f (plural rañas)

1. whiner, grumbler
2. moaner, grumpy

Verb

raña

1. inflection of rañar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “raña”, 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), “raña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “raña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Noun

raña f (plural rañas)

1. a sediment of clayey quartzite

Further reading

• “raña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10