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rrah

rrah

English

Noun

rrah

  1. A cry uttered by an infant vervet when separated from its mother.
    • 1983, William C. Stebbins, The Acoustic Sense of Animals (page 140)
      Struhsaker has recorded at least five different distress calls by infant vervets related to mother-infant separation. As the distance between mother and infant increases the "rrah" call changes to "eee" or "rrr" with an increase in intensity.
    • 2011, Jean Aitchison, The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (page 25)
      Even the impressive vervet monkey has only thirty-six distinct vocal sounds in its repertoire. [] An infant separated from its mother gives the lost rrah cry.

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *ragska, from *wr̥h₁ǵʰ-ske/o-, from Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵʰ- (compare Ancient Greek ράσσειν (rássein)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [raː]

Verb

rrah (first-person singular past tense rraha, participle rrahur)

  1. I strike, I beat.
Inflection

Etymology 2

A deverbative formation.

Noun

rrah m (indefinite plural rrahe, definite singular rrahu, definite plural rrahet)

  1. grubbed out land
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