rá

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

rá

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

• arrá, arrán, ran

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː/

rá f (plural rás)

1. frog

   Synonyms: agano, aganón, carranco, zampesa

• Camporrairo
• Portorrairo
• Rairos
• relo
• Vilarrairo

• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

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

Shortened from reá.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈraː]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -raː

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.

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.

• 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”)

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

• Appendix:Hungarian pronouns

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

• ár

• rádh (obsolete)
• ráit (Ulster)^[1][2]

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”).

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

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

1. verbal noun of abair
2. saying, quote

As substantive:

As verbal noun:

• comhrá

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ɾʌ/, [ʌˈɾʌ]

rá

1. writing; text
2. sign

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

rá f

1. deer

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

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

rá f (genitive rár, plural rár or ráar)

1. sailyard

• seglrá
• skiprá

• Norwegian: rå
• Swedish: rå
• Danish: rå

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”).

• vrá, vá

rá f

1. corner, nook
2. angle

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

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

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

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

(classifier cái) rá • (𥯊)

1. bamboo basket