English

Proper noun

Ran

1. A male given name

Etymology 2

From Japanese.

Proper noun

Ran

1. A male given name

Anagrams

• NRA
• RNA

English

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 9781857827286, 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

Old English ran

Noun

ran ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Open robbery.

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Statistics

Anagrams

• NRA
• RNA

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈran/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈran/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈran/

Adverb

ran

1. Alternative form of arran

See also

• ran de

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]
• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: rann

Adverb

ran

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

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 reading of らん

Lojban

Rafsi

ran

1. rafsi of ranti.

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

• Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley et Meredith Osmond (eds), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, 545-2. Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, page 59

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

Related terms

• rane

Derived terms

• bankran

Etymology 2

Verb

ran

1. imperative of rane

References

• “ran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rán

Noun

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

1. a robbery

Derived terms

• bankran

References

• “ran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

Antonyms

• (early): kȁsan

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.

Ulau-Suain

Noun

ran

1. water

References

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

Welsh

Noun

ran

1. Soft mutation of rhan.