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rase

See also: rasé, rasë, rašė, řase, and RASE

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.

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Noun

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rase (plural rases)

  1. (obsolete) A scratching out, or erasure.
    • 1612, Pietro Martire “d'” Anghiera, De Novo Orbe, Or the Historie of the West Indies, page 89:
      But of the diuersitie of popingaies, we haue spoken sufficiently in the firste Decade: for in the rase of this large lande, Colonus him selfe brought and sent to the courte a great number of euery kinde, the whiche it was lawfull for all the people to beholde, and are yet daily brought in like manner.
    • 1628, John Gaule, The Practiqve Theorists Panegyrick. … A Sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse:
      The rase of whose skinne […] was more then the torment of their wretched Bodyes
    • 1773, “Hycke-Scorner: A Morality.”, in Thomas Hawkins, editor, The Origin of the English Drama, page 89:
      Felowes, they shall never more us withstonde, For I se them all drowned in the rase of Irlonde,
  2. A slight wound; a scratch.
  3. A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

Verb

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rase (third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased)

  1. (obsolete) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
    • 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 1684-5. [Julian calendar]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →OCLC, page 317:
      For was he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps razed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?
    • 1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 103:
      Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.
  2. (obsolete) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 25”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎[1], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
      The painefull warrier famoſed for worth,
      After a thouſand victories once foild,
      Is from the booke of honour raſed quite,
      And all the reſt forgot for which he toild: […]
    • 1660, Thomas Fuller, “Name General”, in Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, London: […] R[oger] D[aniel] for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page 17:
      Though we carry a ſimple and ſingle remembrance of our loſſes unto the grave, it being impoſſible to do other-waies (except we raze the faculty of memory Roote and Branch out of our mind) yet let us not keep any record of them with the leaſt reflection of revenge.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 361–363:
      Though of their Names in heavenly Records now / Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd / By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.
  3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
  4. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

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Czech

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Noun

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rase f

  1. dative/locative singular of rasa

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse rasa.

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  • IPA(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]

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rase (imperative ras, infinitive at rase, present tense raser, past tense rasede, perfect tense har raset)

  1. to rage
  2. to storm

Estonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *rasëda (“tired; pregnant; heavy”), from Proto-Finno-Permic *ranśe. Related to raske (“heavy”) (from *raskëda, where the -k- is a derivational suffix). Replaced earlier raskejalgne (literally “having heavy feet”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrɑse/, [ˈrɑse̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑse
  • Hyphenation: ra‧se

Adjective

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rase (genitive raseda, partitive rasedat)

  1. pregnant (carrying a fetus developing in its organism, expecting a child)
    rase naine ― a pregnant woman
    rasedaks jääma ― to get pregnant
    Naine on kaheksandat kuud rase. ― The woman is eight months pregnant.
  2. (figurative) filled (with something abstract)
    • 1937, Heiti Talvik, Sügiselaul (poetry):
      Ammu juba viimse vase / vahtraladvad poetand rohtu. / Üksik uib, mis viljast rase, / trotsimas veel hallaohtu.
      The maple tops have long since shed / their last copper colour into the grass. / A lonely catkin, filled with fruit, / still defies the threat of frost.

Usage notes

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  • rase chiefly refers to humans, while tiine refers to animals.

Declension

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Declension of rase (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative rase rasedad
accusative nom.
gen. raseda
genitive rasedate
partitive rasedat rasedaid
illative rasedasse rasedatesse
rasedaisse
inessive rasedas rasedates
rasedais
elative rasedast rasedatest
rasedaist
allative rasedale rasedatele
rasedaile
adessive rasedal rasedatel
rasedail
ablative rasedalt rasedatelt
rasedailt
translative rasedaks rasedateks
rasedaiks
terminative rasedani rasedateni
essive rasedana rasedatena
abessive rasedata rasedateta
comitative rasedaga rasedatega

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Noun

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rase (genitive raseda, partitive rasedat)

  1. a pregnant person (usually a woman)
    rasedate võimlemine ― prenatal aerobics (literally, “aerobics for pregnant women”)

Declension

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Declension of rase (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative rase rasedad
accusative nom.
gen. raseda
genitive rasedate
partitive rasedat rasedaid
illative rasedasse rasedatesse
rasedaisse
inessive rasedas rasedates
rasedais
elative rasedast rasedatest
rasedaist
allative rasedale rasedatele
rasedaile
adessive rasedal rasedatel
rasedail
ablative rasedalt rasedatelt
rasedailt
translative rasedaks rasedateks
rasedaiks
terminative rasedani rasedateni
essive rasedana rasedatena
abessive rasedata rasedateta
comitative rasedaga rasedatega

References

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  • rase in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “rase”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

French

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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rase

  1. feminine singular of ras

Verb

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rase

  1. inflection of raser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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German

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rase

  1. inflection of rasen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Javanese ꦫꦱꦺ (rasé).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrase/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧sé

Noun

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rasé (uncountable)

  1. small Indian civet (Viverricula indica).
    Synonyms: musang bulan, musang rase

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Italian

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Verb

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rase

  1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective

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rase

  1. feminine plural of raso

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Latin

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Participle

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rāse

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

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Latvian

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Noun

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rase f (5th declension)

  1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)
  2. colour

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Declension of rase (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) rase rases
accusative (akuzatīvs) rasi rases
genitive (ģenitīvs) rases rašu
dative (datīvs) rasei rasēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) rasi rasēm
locative (lokatīvs) rasē rasēs
vocative (vokatīvs) rase rases

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Italian razza and Middle French race.

Noun

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rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural raser, definite plural rasene)

  1. a race (of humankind)
  2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse rasa.

Verb

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rase (imperative ras, present tense raser, passive rases, simple past raste, past participle rast, present participle rasende)

  1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
  2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
  3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
  4. (storm) to wreak havoc
  5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
  6. (with sammen) to collapse, cave in
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Italian razza and Middle French race.

Noun

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rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural rasar, definite plural rasane)

  1. a race (of humankind)
  2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse rasa.

Verb

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rase (present tense rasar, past tense rasa, past participle rasa, passive infinitive rasast, present participle rasande, imperative rase/ras)

  1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
  2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
  3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
  4. (storm) to wreak havoc
  5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
  6. (with saman) to collapse, cave in
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Old Javanese

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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.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrase/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧sé

Noun

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rase

  1. civet
    Synonyms: lubak, luwak

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  • Javanese: ꦫꦱꦺ (rasé)
    • → Indonesian: rase

Further reading

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  • "rase" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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Noun

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rase

  1. inflection of rasa (“taste”):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Romanian

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rase f

  1. plural of rasă

Spanish

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Verb

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rase

  1. inflection of rasar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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