r

Etymology 1
Modification of capital letter by not closing the bottom of the loop but continuing into the leg to save a pen stroke, later shortening the right leg into a simple arc.

Letter

 * 1) The eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  radius
 * 2)  (a) an alveolar trill.
 * (b)
 * (c) an -trill release (of a plosive); a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.
 * (d) a non-trilled rhotic coloration or  of a ; a rhotic vowel, now formed with ⟨◌˞⟩ or a more-precise transcription such as ⟨ʴ⟩ – see ʳ|$⟨r⟩$.
 * 1)  used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent various rhotic sounds:
 * 2)  Of a tactic diad, having structural units in opposition.
 * 1)  Of a tactic diad, having structural units in opposition.
 * 1)  Of a tactic diad, having structural units in opposition.
 * 1)  Of a tactic diad, having structural units in opposition.

Etymology 1
Old English lower case letter, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter.

Pronunciation

 * or a lengthening of the previous vowel,
 * or a lengthening of the previous vowel,
 * or a lengthening of the previous vowel,
 * or a lengthening of the previous vowel,
 * or a lengthening of the previous vowel,
 * or a lengthening of the previous vowel,
 * or a lengthening of the previous vowel,
 * or a lengthening of the previous vowel,

Etymology 2
From and, pronounced like the name of the letter.

Translations

 * Italian:

Etymology 3
Abbreviations.


 * 1)  the sound sequence /ɑr/, including the verb 

Etymology 1
The actual reading of this word is uncertain, as it is always written as an ideogram, but evidence from Coptic suggests the original was. The extension in meaning to ‘part, piece, fraction’ might be either by way of a mouthful being used as a standard share in some distribution of food or goods, or else extended from its meaning of ‘opening’ > ‘division’.

Noun

 * 1) mouth (of humans or animals)
 * 2) * Reign of Amenemhat II or Senusret II, c. 1929–1878, Stela of Hekaib (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, AP 78):
 * "egy"


 * 1)  speaker, mouthpiece
 * 2) utterance, statement
 * 3) especially, ritual utterance, spell
 * 4)  language, manner of speech
 * 5) opening, hole
 * 6) bodily orifice, opening of the human body in general, including eyes, ears, nostrils, the vulva, and open wounds
 * 7) entrance to a building, doorway
 * 8) entrance to a land or place in general
 * 9) mouth of a river
 * 10) water’s edge, waterline
 * 11)  place or thing seen as an opening from one point to another, passage, thoroughfare
 * 12)  a measure of volume equivalent to $⟨ʳ⟩$ of a  or $1/32$ of a  (about 15 millilitres); mouthful
 * 13) part, piece, fraction
 * 14) * 12th Dynasty, Siut Tomb I, 285, published in Griffith, Francis Llewellyn, The inscriptions of Siûṭ and Dêr Rîfeh:
 * "egy"
 * "egy"

Usage notes
Following Sethe, it has often been suggested that should also be taken to mean ‘one third’ as a reading of the sign  (questionably attested in hieroglyphs proper), extrapolating backward from the dual form ; however, such a usage remains uncertain, and the reading of the form  argues against the interpretation of  in  as specifically meaning a third.

Inflection
In the sense of ‘mouth’ the plural is rare, as the singular is usually used even in reference to the mouths of multiple people.

Alternative forms
The senses relating to ‘opening, doorway’ sometimes carry different determinatives:

The sense ‘water’s edge’ is similarly sometimes found with a different determinative:

Etymology 2
Possibly cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Preposition

 * 1) regarding, with respect to, concerning, according to
 * 2) in order to, for (the purpose of)
 * 3)  to, towards
 * 4)  headed for, destined for, bound for
 * 5)  at, in, on
 * 6) against, in opposition to
 * 7) from, apart from (ablative)
 * 8)  than, by comparison to
 * 9)  ; if, when, as
 * 10)  until
 * 1)  until

Particle

 * 1)  so, regarding (that, you, me, etc.), as for (that, you, me, etc.)

Usage notes
This usage is distinguished from the preposition by the fact that it occurs as the enclitic second element in a clause instead of at the end of a clause, as is otherwise the case with prepositional phrases.

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter




Usage notes

 * is the pronunciation of r usually found in southern and southeastern dialects of Norway. Bergen has the dialect best known for this sound. Said to come from Danish and/or German, originally from French.
 * Dialects with do not have retroflex consonants.
 * Silent before l in many dialects, such as [ˈdɔːlɪ] or [ˈdɔrlɪ] (dårlig/dårleg).

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by . Its traditional name is .

Letter

 * 1) The 23rd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by  and followed by.

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.