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4-letter words (2 found)

ARNA,RANA,

3-letter words (2 found)

ANA,RAN,

2-letter words (4 found)

AA,AN,AR,NA,

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rana arna rnaa nraa anra nara raan aran raan aran aarn aarn rnaa nraa rana arna nara anra anar naar aanr aanr naar anar

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Definitions and meaning of rana

rana

Anguthimri

Noun

rana

  1. (Mpakwithi) sky

References

  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin rāna (“frog”).

Noun

rana f (plural ranes)

  1. frog (amphibian)

Balinese

Romanization

rana

  1. Romanization of ᬭᬡ

Esperanto

Etymology

From rano (“frog”) +‎ -a (adjectival ending).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrana]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: ran‧a

Adjective

rana (accusative singular ranan, plural ranaj, accusative plural ranajn)

  1. Of, relating to or similar to frogs; frogly.
    • 1931, Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark), La vojo returne, tr. by Joseph F. Berger, in Populara Esperanto-Biblioteko, No. 15, Heroldo de Esperanto, page 156.
    • 1991, Mikhail A. Bulgakov, La majstro kaj Margarita, tr. by Sergej B. Pokrovskij from Russian, in Serio Oriento-Okcidento, No. 26, Sezonoj (publ.), page 213.

Hausa

Etymology 1

Compare Egyptian rꜥ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɽáː.náː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɽáː.náː]

Noun

rānā f (plural rā̀nàikū, possessed form ran)

  1. sun
  2. heat of the sun
  3. day
Derived terms
  • rana-rana (“occasionally”)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɽáː.ná/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɽáː.nə́]

Adverb

rāna

  1. in the daytime

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːna

Noun

rana

  1. inflection of rani:
    1. indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
    2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.na/
  • Rhymes: -na
  • Hyphenation: ra‧na

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit रण (raṇa, “war, battle”).

Noun

rana (plural rana-rana, first-person possessive ranaku, second-person possessive ranamu, third-person possessive rananya)

  1. (archaic) war
  2. (archaic) battle
  3. (archaic) battlefield
    Synonym: medan perang

Adjective

rana

  1. (archaic) daring
  2. audacious, brave
    Synonym: berani

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit रण (raṇa, “delight, pleasure, gladness, joy”).

Adjective

rana

  1. joyful
    Synonym: riang

Etymology 3

Noun

rana (plural rana-rana, first-person possessive ranaku, second-person possessive ranamu, third-person possessive rananya)

  1. Alternative spelling of ratna

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rāna (“a frog”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.na/
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: rà‧na

Noun

rana f (plural rane)

  1. frog
    Synonym: (colloquial) ranocchia
  2. (swimming, singular only) breaststroke

Related terms

  • rana pescatrice
  • ranista
  • ranocchia
  • ranocchiaia
  • ranocchiesco
  • ranocchio

See also

  • girino

Javanese

Romanization

rana

  1. Romanization of ꦫꦤ

Latin

Etymology

Onomatopoeic of croaking.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈraː.na/, [ˈräːnä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.na/, [ˈräːnä]

Noun

rāna f (genitive rānae); first declension

  1. a frog

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • rānivorus
  • rānunculus

Descendants

  • Asturian: rana
  • Franco-Provençal: râna
  • French: raine (obsolete)
  • Italian: rana
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: rãa
    • Galician: ra, ran
    • Portuguese: rã
  • Spanish: rana
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rānucula (see there for further descendants)
  • → Hawaiian: lana

References

  • “rana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rana”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Leonese

Etymology

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

Noun

rana f (plural ranas)

  1. frog

References

  • AEDLL
  • Pallabreiru Llïonés

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • (of noun) ranene
(of verb)
  • ranet
  • rante (simple past)
  • rant (past participle)

Noun

rana n

  1. definite plural of ran

Verb

rana

  1. inflection of rane:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rana n

  1. definite plural of ran

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.na/
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: ra‧na

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rana.

Noun

rana f

  1. wound
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

rana n

  1. inflection of rano:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /râna/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧na

Noun

rȁna f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏на)

  1. wound
Declension

Further reading

  • “rana” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

rana

  1. inflection of ran:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
    3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
    4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ràːna/

Noun

rána f

  1. wound, injury

Further reading

  • “rana”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rāna (“a frog”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrana/ [ˈra.na]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: ra‧na

Noun

rana f (plural ranas)

  1. frog

Derived terms

See also

  • sapo m

Further reading

  • “rana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tiruray

Noun

rana

  1. rain

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