ran

See also: RAN, rán, ràn, rắn, rån, rǎn, and rận

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹæn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

Verb

ran

  1. simple past tense of run
  2. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of run
    • 2012, Helen Summer, Running Crazy - Imagine Running a Marathon. Now Imagine Running Over 100 of Them. Incredible True Stories from the World’s Most Fanatical Runners. John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, no page number:
      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.

Etymology 2

Noun

ran (uncountable)

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

Etymology 3

From Old English ran; compare with Danish ran and Norwegian Bokmål ran.

Noun

ran (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Open robbery.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Lambarde to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ran in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Adjective

ran

  1. (Uri) lanky, slender

References

Arop-Lokep

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɑn/, [ˈrɑn]

Noun

ran

  1. water

Further reading

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adverb

ran

  1. Alternative form of arran

See also

Chuukese

Noun

ran

  1. day, daylight

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rán.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raːn/, [ʁɑːˀn]

Noun

ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)

  1. open theft

Inflection

Verb

ran

  1. imperative of rane

German

Etymology

Shortened form of heran.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʁan]
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Homophone: rann

Adverb

ran

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

Further reading

  • ran in Duden online

Gilbertese

Noun

ran

  1. water

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

ran

  1. Rōmaji transcription of らん

Karnai

Noun

ran

  1. water

Further reading

Malasanga

Noun

ran

  1. water

Further reading

Mandarin

Romanization

ran

  1. Nonstandard spelling of rán.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of rǎn.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Namakura

Noun

ran

  1. water

Reference

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rán

Noun

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

  1. a robbery
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

ran

  1. imperative of rane

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rán

Noun

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

  1. a robbery

Derived terms

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ (Russian ранний (ránnij), Polish rano).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /râːn/
  • Rhymes: -âːn

Adjective

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

  1. early
  2. premature

Declension

positive definite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative rani rana rano
genitive ranog(a) rane ranog(a)
dative ranom(u/e) ranoj ranom(u/e)
accusative inanimate
animate		 rani
ranog(a)		 ranu rano
vocative rani rana rano
locative ranom(e/u) ranoj ranom(e/u)
instrumental ranim ranom ranim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative rani rane rana
genitive ranih ranih ranih
dative ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
accusative rane rane rana
vocative rani rane rana
locative ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
instrumental ranim(a) ranim(a) ranim(a)
comparative forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative raniji ranija ranije
genitive ranijeg(a) ranije ranijeg(a)
dative ranijem(u) ranijoj ranijem(u)
accusative inanimate
animate		 raniji
ranijeg(a)		 raniju ranije
vocative raniji ranija ranije
locative ranijem(u) ranijoj ranijem(u)
instrumental ranijim ranijom ranijim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative raniji ranije ranija
genitive ranijih ranijih ranijih
dative ranijim(a) ranijim(a) ranijim(a)
accusative ranije ranije ranija
vocative raniji ranije ranija
locative ranijim(a) ranijim(a) ranijim(a)
instrumental ranijim(a) ranijim(a) ranijim(a)

Antonyms

References

  • “ran” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ranъ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈráːn/
  • Tonal orthography: rȃn

Adjective

rán (comparative ránejši, superlative nàjránejši)

  1. early

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English run.

Noun

ran

  1. To run
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 2:14 (translation here):
      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.
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Ulau-Suain

Noun

ran

  1. water

References

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

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

ran

  1. to resound; to spread widely

Welsh

Noun

ran

  1. Soft mutation of rhan.
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