ray

Etymology 1
Via, borrowed from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) A beam of light or radiation.
 * 2)  A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
 * 3)  One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
 * 4)  A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
 * 5)  Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
 * 6)  A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
 * 7)  A tiny amount.
 * Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.
 * 1)  A tiny amount.
 * Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شُعَاع
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Aromanian: aradzã, radzã
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: нур
 * Belarusian: праме́нь
 * Bengali:
 * Berber:
 * Tashelhit: aẓnẓar
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: rus
 * Danish: stråle
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:, radiuso, raio
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: rai
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: შუქი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀκτίς
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ga
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: sorot
 * Kapampangan: simbul
 * Kazakh: сәуле, нұр
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تشک
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: spaits
 * Latin: radius
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: spindulys
 * Luxembourgish: Stral
 * Macedonian: зрак
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: raġġ
 * Maori: ihi, pūhihi, wana, hihi
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: stråle
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: лоуча
 * Old East Slavic: лучь
 * Old English: sċīma
 * Pashto: شعاع,, څريکه
 * Persian:, , برازه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਕਿਰਨ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: ragiu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зрака, зрак
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: lúč
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kianga, mwale
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ligos
 * Tajik: шуоъ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tocharian B: swāñco
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: şöhle, nur
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: کرن
 * Uyghur:, شولا
 * Uzbek:, shula
 * Venetian: rajo
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: pelydr
 * Yiddish: שטראַל


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: semirecta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: polopřímka
 * Danish: stråle
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, radiuso, raio
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ημιευθεία
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Persian: نیم‌خط
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: полуправац
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: polpriamka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sinag
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: شعاع
 * Vietnamese:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Hoffnungsstrahl
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To emit something as if in rays.
 * 2)  To radiate as if in rays.
 * 3)  To expose to radiation.
 * 1)  To expose to radiation.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: raii
 * Malay:, menyinar, bersinar
 * Maori: whakawanawana
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Turkish:

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , of uncertain origin. Compare 🇨🇬,, , from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.

Translations

 * Aklanon: pagi
 * Arabic: شِفْنِين
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: arraia
 * Belarusian: скат
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: pagi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 魔鬼魚
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: rokke
 * Dhivehi: މަޑި
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: rajo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სკაროსი
 * German:
 * Greek:, , μουδιάστρα
 * Ancient: βατίς
 * Greenlandic: allernaq, tarraleqisaaq
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skata
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: roc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese: pe
 * Kalmyk: шувтру
 * Kannada: ತೊರಕೆ
 * Kapampangan: pagi
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: raia
 * Latvian: raja
 * Macedonian: ража
 * Malay: pari
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: whai
 * Minangkabau:
 * Norman: cârrée, raie, fliée
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: rokke
 * Nynorsk: rokke
 * Ottoman Turkish: كدی بالغی, طرپانه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ража
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: raja
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rochon
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil:
 * Tausug: pagi
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: скат
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ,
 * Wolof: umbulaan wi

Etymology 3
Shortened from.

Verb

 * 1)  To arrange.
 * 2)  To dress, array (someone).
 * 3)  To stain or soil; to defile.

Noun

 * 1)  Array; order; arrangement; dress.

Etymology 4
From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.

Noun

 * 1) The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

 * , in Latin and the name of the other Pitman r

Etymology 5
Alternative forms.

Verb

 * 1)  to die

Noun

 * 1) good

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) opinion

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) rail