ran

• IPA^(key): /ɹæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

ran

1. simple past of run
2. simple past of rin
3. (nonstandard, colloquial) past participle of run
   • 1731, Philippus van Limborch, translated by Samuel Chandler, The History of the Inquisition‎^[1], volume 1, page 231:

     […] rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention, […]

   • 1837, William Keary, Romanism exposed; or, Strictures on two lectures […] ‎^[2], Goddard and Brown, page 6:

     " Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ; […]

   • 2012 March 5, Helen Summer, Running Crazy‎^[3], John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 209:

     I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.

ran (uncountable)

1. (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

• Arn, NRA, Nar, RNA

ran

1. (Uri) lanky, slender

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 63.

• IPA^(key): /rɑn/, [ˈrɑn]

ran

1. water

• Arop-Lokep, in The Oceanic Languages →ISBN, Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross), page 257: ran ki "his water"
• Stephen George Parker, Phonological Descriptions of Papua New Guinea Languages (2005)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈran]

ran

1. alternative form of arran

• ran de

ran

1. day, daylight

• IPA^(key): [ˈran]

ran

1. genitive plural of rána

From Old Norse rán.

• IPA^(key): /raːn/, [ʁɑːˀn]

ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)

1. open theft

ran

1. imperative of rane

Shortened form of heran.

• IPA^(key): [ʁan]

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• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: rann

ran

1. (colloquial) near, close to, over to

• see list in raus

• “ran” in Duden online
• “ran” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

ran

1. water

• Thomas Edward Dutton, Darrell T. Tryon, Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World (1994)

From French rang.

• IPA^(key): /ɣã/

ran

1. row, line
2. rank, position

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

ran

1. Rōmaji transcription of らん

ran

1. water

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 59

ran

1. water

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Verna, page 59, 2012

ran

1. nonstandard spelling of rán
2. nonstandard spelling of rǎn

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

ran

1. water

• Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley et Meredith Osmond (eds), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, 545-2. Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, page 59

From Old Norse rán.

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana or ranene)

1. a robbery

• bankran

• rane

ran

1. imperative of rane

• “ran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse rán.

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana)

1. a robbery

• bankran

• “ran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• rēna

• IPA^(key): /rɑːn/

rān n (nominative plural rān)

1. unlawful seizure of property; robbery

Strong a-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, edited by T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1882
• T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Supplement, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1921

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ran, from Proto-Tupian *ran.

ran (noun form rana)

1. similar; alike; false
2. shoddy; poorly made
3. (figurative) rude; impolite

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “rana”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 427, column 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈran/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ran

ran f

1. genitive plural of rana

ran n

1. genitive plural of rano

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ranъ (Russian ра́нний (ránnij), Polish rano).

• IPA^(key): /râːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

rȃn (Cyrillic spelling ра̑н, definite rȃnī, comparative rànijī)

1. early

   Antonym: kȁsan

2. premature

• “ran”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ.

• IPA^(key): /ráːn/

rȃn (comparative ránejši, superlative nȁjránejši)

1. early

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	rán	rána	ráno
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rán ind ráni def	rána	ráno
genitive	ránega	ráne	ránega
dative	ránemu	ráni	ránemu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	ráno	ráno
locative	ránem	ráni	ránem
instrumental	ránim	ráno	ránim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rána	ráni	ráni
genitive	ránih	ránih	ránih
dative	ránima	ránima	ránima
accusative	rána	ráni	ráni
locative	ránih	ránih	ránih
instrumental	ránima	ránima	ránima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ráni	ráne	rána
genitive	ránih	ránih	ránih
dative	ránim	ránim	ránim
accusative	ráne	ráne	rána
locative	ránih	ránih	ránih
instrumental	ránimi	ránimi	ránimi

• “ran”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From English run.

ran

1. To run
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:14:

     Nem bilong namba 3 wara em Taigris na em i ran i go long hap sankamap bilong kantri Asiria. Na nem bilong namba 4 wara em Yufretis.

     →New International Version translation

ran

1. water

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 波散 (MC pa sanX) (modern SV: ba tản).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐaːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹaːŋ˧˧]

ran

1. to resound; to spread widely

ran

1. soft mutation of rhan

ran f

1. rod, wand
2. fishing rod

• “ran” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.