rá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ra"

Faroese

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

rá

1. 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)

1. frog

   Synonyms: agano, aganón, carranco, zampesa

Derived terms

• Camporrairo
• Portorrairo
• Rairos
• relo
• Vilarrairo

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							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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈraː]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -raː

Pronoun

rá

1. 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

1. 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

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian pronouns

Further reading

• rá in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Anagrams

• ár

Irish

Alternative forms

• rádh (obsolete)
• ráit (Ulster)

Etymology

From Old Irish rád (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/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɾˠaː/

Noun

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

1. verbal noun of abair
2. 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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 556
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Kaingang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾʌ/, [ʌˈɾʌ]

Noun

rá

1. writing; text
2. 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

1. 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)

1. sail-yard

Derived terms

• seglrá
• skiprá

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

1. corner, nook
2. 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)

1. bamboo basket

Derived terms

Derived terms

• rổ rá