rata

From Maori rātā or cognate Tahitian rātā (“tree of genus Metrosideros”). Compare Tahitian puarātā (“Metrosideros collina”).

rata (usually uncountable, plural ratas)

1. (usually countable) Any of various New Zealand plants of the genus Metrosideros.
2. (usually uncountable) The hard dark red wood of such trees.

• “rata, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2008.

Compare Sinhalese රට ගොරකා (raṭa gorakā, “Garcinia xanthochymus”), Marathi रातंबी (rātambī, “Garcinia indica”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

rata (plural ratas)

1. The yellow mangosteen, Garcinia dulcis, a tree native to Indonesia, the Philippines, and India.

   Synonyms: mundu, maphuut, Claudie mangosteen, gourka, eggtree

• Garcinia dulcis at Germplasm Resources Information Network

• Metrosideros on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mangosteen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Metrosideros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Garcinia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• ta-ra, taar, Tārā, Arta, ATRA, Tara, tara, A.A.R.T., Atar, atar

rata

1. name

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• IPA^(key): /ratə/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta

Borrowed from Old Javanese ratā (“level place”) (compare Javanese ꦫꦠ (rata)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ. Doublet of ᬤᬢ and data.

rata (Balinese script ᬭᬢ)

1. flat

   Synonym: data

rata (Balinese script ᬭᬢ)

1. (distribution) evenly
2. everywhere

From Old Javanese ratha (“chariot”), from Sanskrit रथ (rátha, “chariot”). Cognate with Javanese ꦫꦠ (rata).

rata (Balinese script ᬭᬣ)

1. carriage

• “rata” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin rattus (“rat”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈra.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈra.ta]

• Audio (Valencia):

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rata f (plural rates)

1. rat

   Synonym: rat

2. Atlantic stargazer (Uranoscopus scaber)

   Synonym: saltabardissa

• ratador
• ratadura

• “rata”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “rata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “rata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

rata

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

From Proto-Finnic *rata (compare Estonian rada, Ingrian rata (“The Milky Way”), Karelian rata (“The Milky Way”), Livonian radā), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *tradō (compare Dutch tra (“trail, (forest) path”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑtɑ/, [ˈrɑ̝t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ra‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): ra‧ta

rata

1. (literary) route, path, road

   Synonyms: tie, polku, reitti

2. (rail transport) railroad track, track

   Synonym: rautatie

3. (sports) track, lane, course, ground, range, sheet

   luistelurata ― skating track

   uimarata ― swim lane

   ravirata ― harness racing course

   jousiammuntarata ― archery ground

   ampumarata ― shooting range

   curling-rata ― curling sheet

4. (mechanics) trajectory, course (path of a body as it travels through space)

   Synonym: lentorata

5. (mechanics) orbit (path of one object around another)

   Synonym: kiertorata

6. (figuratively) course (sequence of events)

   Kaikki menee normaalia rataansa. ― Everything follows the normal course of events.

7. (slang) nightlife

   Synonym: baana

• ratas

• “rata”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• -rtaa, arat, atra

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rata

1. third-person singular past historic of rater

• tara

From rato (“mouse”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈratɐ]

rata f (plural ratas)

1. rat

• rato

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

rata

1. fire

From Old Norse rata, from Proto-Germanic *wratōną. The word is absent in the related modern languages, but cognate with Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐍄𐍉𐌽 (wratōn, “to travel, to journey”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈraːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta

rata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rataði, supine ratað)

1. to find one’s way
2. to know the way
   • a. 13th century, Hávamál (English source, Icelandic sourve)

     Vits er þörf
     þeim er víða ratar.
     Dælt er heima hvað.
     Að augabragði verður
     sá er ekki kann
     og með snotrum situr.

     Wits must he have
     who wanders wide,
     But all is easy at home;
     At the witless man
     the wise shall wink
     When among such men he sits.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrata]
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta
• Rhymes: -ta

From Malay rata, from Javanese ꦫꦠ (rata), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ. Doublet of datar and latar.

rata

1. even
   1. flat and level
   2. parallel: on a level; reaching the same limit

      Synonym: papar

2. even, evenly, equally: in a fair manner of distribution, giving the same amount or number to each
3. flat

   Gempa bumi telah menyebabkan bangunan-bangunan itu menjadi rata dengan tanah. ― An earthquake had been flattened the buildings.

   Synonyms: datar, pelat

4. smooth

   Permukaannya tidak rata. ― The surface is not smooth.

   Synonyms: halus, mulus

From Malay rata, from Sanskrit रथ (rátha, “chariot”).

rata (plural rata-rata)

1. (obsolete) carriage

   Synonym: kereta

• “rata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Finnic *rata. Cognates include Finnish rata and Estonian rada.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈrɑtɑ/, [ˈrɑtɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈrɑtɑ/, [ˈrɑd̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑ
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta

rata

1. course, trajectory

Declension of rata (type 3/kana, t- gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	rata	raat
genitive	raan	rattoin
partitive	rattaa	ratoja
illative	rattaa	rattoi
inessive	raas	raois
elative	raast	raoist
allative	raalle	raoille
adessive	raal	raoil
ablative	raalt	raoilt
translative	raaks	raoiks
essive	ratanna, rattaan	ratoinna, rattoin
exessive1)	ratant	ratoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 460

From Medieval Latin rata, from the Latin phrase pro rata parte (“according to the proportional share”), from ratus (“reckoned”), past participle of the verb reor (“to think over, deem, reckon”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: rà‧ta

rata f (plural rate)

1. instalment/installment

• atra, tara

rata

1. romanization of ꦫꦠ

rata f (plural rates)

1. dose
2. instalment

rata

1. third-person singular present indicative of rater
2. third-person plural present indicative of rater
3. second-person singular imperative of rater

rata

1. hair

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈra.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.t̪a]

rata

1. inflection of ratus:
   1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

rata m

1. genitive singular of rats

rata

1. guest
2. foreigner

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈratə/ [ˈra.t̪ə]
  • Rhymes: -atə, -ə

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈrata/ [ˈra.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ata, -a
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta

Borrowed from Old Javanese ratā, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ. Doublet of datar.

rata (Jawi spelling رات)

1. level, even, flat

• > Indonesian: rata (inherited)

From Sanskrit रथ (ratha).

rata (Jawi spelling رات, plural rata-rata)

1. chariot

• “rata” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Oceanic *lasa (Compare Fijian lasa).

rata

1. tame
2. quiet

Cognate with Zulu -thanda, Tsonga -rhandza.

rata

1. to love

Feminine of rat (“rat”)

• Audio (Languedoc):

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rata f (plural ratas)

1. (Rattus rattus) female black rat

• rata d'aiga

• rat

From Proto-West Germanic *hrātu.

rāta f

1. honeycomb

• Middle Dutch: râte
  • Dutch: raat

• “rāta”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• rāta

rātā

1. nominative/accusative plural of rāt

• IPA^(key): /ra.ta/
• Rhymes: -ta
• Homophones: ratā, ratha
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta

rata

1. alternative spelling of surata

rata

1. alternative spelling of ratā

rata

1. alternative spelling of ratā

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

Borrowed from German Rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin ratus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ra‧ta
• Homophone: Rata

rata f (diminutive ratka)

1. (banking, finance) installment (portion of debt)

   Hypernym: należność

• rata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta

rata f (plural ratas)

1. female equivalent of rato
2. (chiefly Portugal, informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

   • 1927, João da Silva Correia, O eufemismo e o disfemismo na língua e na literatura portuguesa‎^[2]:

     […] ao feminino chama-se ordinariamente a vulva, a vagina, a pássara, a passarola, o pardejo, a pinta, o pito, a rata, a nódos, a pachacha, o vespeiro, a coisa, a xarifa, o pechincho.

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rata

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

Borrowed from French rater.

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a rata (third-person singular present ratează, past participle ratat) 1st conjugation

1. to miss, to fail

Borrowed from Italian rata (“installment”).

• IPA^(key): /rǎːta/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ta

ráta f (Cyrillic spelling ра́та)

1. installment

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rata (Cyrillic spelling рата)

1. genitive singular of rat

Cognate with Zulu -thanda, Tsonga -rhandza.

rata

1. to love

• IPA^(key): /ˈrata/ [ˈra.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ra‧ta

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. It is not known how the noun made the jump to a feminine noun.

rata f (plural ratas, masculine rato, masculine plural ratos)

1. rat (a medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus)

rata (invariable)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) stingy, miserly, tight-fisted

   Synonyms: tacaño, pesetero, hijo de puta

2. (colloquial, derogatory) rat, jerk (a despicable person, especially who has been deceitful or disloyal)
3. (colloquial, derogatory) rat, snitch, informant

   Synonyms: chivato, soplón, delator, sapo

• rata topo desnuda (“naked mole rat”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rata f (plural ratas)

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

From Old Norse hrata, from Proto-Germanic *hratt- (“to rush”); see *hradaz (“hasty, quick”). Cognate with Icelandic hrata (“to lose balance”) and Old English hratian (“to hurry”).

rata (present ratar, preterite ratade, supine ratat, imperative rata)

1. to reject, discard

   Synonyms: avslå, försmå, kassera, skrota, underkänna, vraka

   Antonyms: anta, godta, ta, välja

• rata in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rata in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rata in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from English letter.

rata

1. letter

Possibly from Malay rata (“level, flat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾa.ta/

rata

1. (stative) to be smooth

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ta/

go rata (past ratile)

1. to love
2. to like

Borrowed from Russian страдать (stradatʹ). Compare Finnish raataa, Karelian ruadua and Ludian ruata.

rata

1. to work
2. to toil
3. to act (perform an action)

Inflection of rata (inflection type 13/maksta)
1st infinitive	rata
present indic.	radab
past indic.	radoi
	present indicative	past indicative	imperative
1st singular	radan	radoin	—
2nd singular	radad	radoid	rada
3rd singular	radab	radoi	rakaha
1st plural	radam	radoim	rakam
2nd plural	radat	radoit	rakat
3rd plural	ratas radaba	radoiba	rakaha
sing. conneg.1	rada	radand	rada
plur. conneg.	rakoi	ranugoi	rakoi
	present conditional	past conditional	potential
1st singular	radaižin	ranuižin	radanen
2nd singular	radaižid	ranuižid	radaned
3rd singular	radaiži	ranuiži	radaneb
1st plural	radaižim	ranuižim	radanem
2nd plural	radaižit	ranuižit	radanet
3rd plural	radaižiba	ranuižiba	radaneba
connegative	radaiži	ranuiži	radane
non-finite forms
1st infinitive	rata
2nd infinitive		3rd infinitive
inessive	rates	inessive	radamas
instructive	raten	illative	radamaha
participles		elative	radamaspäi
present active	radai	adessive	radamal
past active	ranu	abessive	radamat
past passive	ratud
1 In imperative: used only in the second-person singular. The plural form is used with other persons.

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “возделывать, действовать, обработать, работать, трудиться”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Malay rata (“level, flat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈr̪a.t̪a/

rata

1. (stative) to be flat, level

   afi da rata ― level ground

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[4], Pacific linguistics