Definitions and meaning of raw
raw
English
Etymology
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /ɹɔː/
- Rhymes: -ɔː
- (US) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /ɹɔ/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: rä, IPA(key): /ɹɑ/
- Homophones: roar (non-rhotic); rah (cot–caught merger)
Adjective
raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)
- (cooking) (of food) Not cooked. [from 9th c.]
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. [from 10th c.] (of materials, products, etc.)
- raw cane sugar
- raw sewage
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. [from 14th c.]
- a raw wound
- New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]
- a raw beginner
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. [from 16th c.]
- a raw voice
- (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis. [from 20th c.]
- 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
- What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- a raw wind
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- raw emotion
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- (slang, sex) Without a condom.
- (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
raw
- (slang, sex) Without a condom.
Synonyms
- (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless
Translations
Noun
raw (plural raws)
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
Translations
Verb
raw (third-person singular simple present raws, present participle rawing, simple past and past participle rawed)
- (slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate without a condom.
Anagrams
- war-, RWA, ARW, war, War., War, WAR, WRA, Rwa
Anguthimri
Adjective
raw
- (Mpakwithi) black
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /raw/
- Homophone: rgħaw (one pronunciation)
Verb
raw
- third-person plural perfect of ra
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
raw
- alternative form of rawe (“raw”)
Etymology 2
Noun
raw
- alternative form of rewe (“row”)
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
rāw f
- alternative form of rǣw
Declension
Strong ō-stem:
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈɾaw/ [ˈɾaʊ̯]
- Rhymes: -aw
- Syllabification: raw
Particle
raw (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜏ᜔)
- alternative form of daw
Usage notes
- When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, daw is used instead.
Welsh
Noun
raw
- soft mutation of rhaw
Mutation
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