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rana
- (Mpakwithi) sky
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
rana f (plural ranes)
- frog (amphibian)
rana
- Romanization of ᬭᬡ
From rano (“frog”) + -a (adjectival ending).
rana (accusative singular ranan, plural ranaj, accusative plural ranajn)
- 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.
Lumineskaj putrolignaĵoj, fiksitaj antaŭ la muzikistoj sur la salikaj vergoj, prilumis la notojn, sur la ranaj muzeloj ludis la flagra lumo de la lignofajro.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2006, Zifu Mao, Kantoj de Anteo, Mondial, →ISBN, page 180:
vojo sur korpo. / lemno sub rana treta / piedo. marto / morta. kaj sendifekta / ŝraŭbo inenas.
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2017, Ĥristina Kozlovska, “La bankoficisto”, in Petro Palivoda, transl., Beletra Almanako, volume 29, Mondial, →ISBN, page 74:
Do anstataŭ rektiĝi kordosimile per sia tuta vira beleco, li faris iun strangan impetan ranan salton.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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.
rānā f (plural rā̀nàikū, possessed form ran)
- rana-rana (“occasionally”)
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rāna
- in the daytime
- Rhymes: -aːna
rana
- inflection of rani:
From Sanskrit रण (raṇa, “war, battle”).
rana (plural rana-rana)
- (archaic) war
- (archaic) battle
- (archaic) battlefield
- Synonym: medan perang
rana
From Sanskrit रण (raṇa, “delight, pleasure, gladness, joy”).
rana
rana (plural rana-rana)
- Alternative spelling of ratna
- “rana” 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.
rana f (plural rane)
- frog
- Synonym: (colloquial) ranocchia
- (swimming, singular only) breaststroke
rana
- Romanization of ꦫꦤ
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈraː.na/, [ˈräːnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.na/, [ˈräːnä]
rāna f (genitive rānae); first declension
- a frog
First-declension noun.
- Asturian: rana
- Franco-Provençal: râna
- French: raine (obsolete)
- Italian: rana
- Old Galician-Portuguese: rãa
- Romansch: rauna
- Spanish: rana
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rānucula (see there for further descendants)
- → Hawaiian: lana
- “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.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513
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rana f (plural ranas)
- arana (achaic)
Inherited from Old Tupi rana, from ran + -a.
rana
- similar; alike
- false, used in species names together with the name of another species they are similar to
- improvised; makeshift
rana
- precariously; in a makeshift manner
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “rana”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 654
- ranene (of noun)
- (of verb)
rana n
rana
- inflection of rane:
- simple past
- past participle
rana n
rana (possessable)
- similar; lookalike[1]
- a poorly made thing; shoddiness[2]
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Semelhante”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 115: “Rãna”
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Grosseira cousa ou mal jeito”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 151: “Rãna”
- 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
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rana.
rana f (diminutive ranka)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
rana n
- inflection of rano:
- rana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- rana in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rana.
rȁna f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏на)
- “rana”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
rana
- inflection of ran:
From Proto-Slavic *rana.
rána f
- “rana”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025
rana f (plural ranas)
- sapo m
- “rana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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