ra

Etymology
Inflection of.

Verb

 * 1) it fell (off)
 * 2) it tumbled, flopped
 * 3) it struck, punched
 * 4) it rained (combined with )
 * 5) it snowed (combined with )
 * 1) it snowed (combined with )

Noun

 * 1)  stomach

Verb

 * 1)  to wash
 * 2)  to rub

Verb

 * 1) throw
 * 2) spill

Noun

 * 1) bone

Etymology
Originally an allophone of obsolete. Compare the ~ distinction in Tagalog.

Adverb

 * 1)  only, just, nothing else
 * 2)  too, so, but not too much
 * 3)  ; to do by oneself
 * 1)  too, so, but not too much
 * 2)  ; to do by oneself
 * 1)  ; to do by oneself
 * 1)  ; to do by oneself

Pronoun

 * 1) they
 * 2) they are

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) king

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)   horizontal beam or pole of a ship's mastwork

Etymology
From (13th century, ), from.

Noun

 * 1) frog

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) rare, uncommon

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) blood

Etymology
From. An oft-cited archaism in Maltese as the verb has been displaced in most contemporary dialects (some preserved it though like the dialect of Sfax/Tunisia). The peculiar use of the imperative is similar to Maghrebi forms like etc., which ultimately developed into pronouns.

Verb

 * 1) to see
 * 2)  look!, behold!;

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) branch

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬

Verb
(progressive raada)


 * 1) to buy

Noun

 * 1) clear plain

Etymology
A contraction of earlier, from , , from ,. The 5th-century runic form is possibly an ancestor of this word, but may be 🇨🇬 instead.

Noun

 * 1) roe deer, roebuck

Etymology
Probably from the pronunciation of a syllable consisting only of the letter.

Noun

 * 1) the Pali letter 'r'

Usage notes

 * Associated with broad Glaswegian dialect.

Etymology
Influenced by Baybayin character.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) road

Etymology 1
From, from , cognate with 🇨🇬 [Cuối Chăm] saː¹ and 🇨🇬.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as, phonetic (modern SV:  ).

Verb

 * 1) to go out, to leave
 * 2)  to go northwards in Vietnam
 * 3) to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
 * 4) to become, to turn into
 * 1) to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
 * 2) to become, to turn into
 * 1) to become, to turn into

Usage notes

 * Sometimes the verb is used for emphasis when appended to ra, forming  to mean "go even further out". However, this usage may vary from dialect to dialect.
 * Ra is used after an adjective to indicate a positive development of a character or state of a person or thing.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) bed sheet

Article

 * 1) the

Usage notes
The article follows the noun it modifies.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) branch

Verb

 * 1)  will;

Determiner

 * 1)  our, ours, us

Usage notes

 * Not used by the Akure subdialect of Ekiti, which uses.

Etymology 2
Proposed to derive from, cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Verb

 * 1)  to buy

Verb

 * 1) to crawl

Verb

 * 1) to rot, to decay

Particle

 * 1)  not

Conjunction

 * 1) and (used for people)
 * adoum ra hawa ra - Adam and Eve
 * 1) and (after words ending in a vowel)
 * Sabit da Arbaha ra - Saturday and Wednesday

Usage notes
Zaghawa conjunctions come after all words they group. Thus, Adam and Eve is 'adoum ra hawa ra', not *adoum ra hawa, as the literal English translation would be.

Etymology 1
From. See for more.

Noun

 * 1)  eye

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1) to look for; to find; to search

Verb

 * 1) to earn (money); to make (money)