different between ara vs arak

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi ara (“morpheme for bird”).

Noun

ara (plural aras)

1. The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).

Translations

Further reading

• Ara ararauna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ara ararauna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Dzongkha ????? (a rag), ultimately from Arabic ???? (?araq). Doublet of arak.

Noun

ara

1. A traditional alcoholic beverage consumed in Bhutan, made from rice, maize, millet, or wheat, either fermented or distilled. The beverage is usually a clear, creamy, or white color.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ara (countable and uncountable, plural aras)

1. saw-edged perch, Niphon spinosus

Anagrams

• AAR, Aar, RAA

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?]
• Hyphenation: a?ra

Noun

ara (definite accusative aran?, plural aralar)

1. distance in space or time
   1. distance (the amount of space between two points)

      Synonym: m?saf?

   2. space (a chiefly empty area or volume with set limits or boundaries)
   3. gap (distance in time)
   4. interval, frequency (a repeated and equal distance in space or time between several objects or events)
   5. while (an uncertain duration of time, a period of time)

2. halt, break, temporary cessation

   Synonym: fasil?

3. a (long) succession, sequence (of events)

   Synonyms: ard, ard?-aras?

4. (figuratively) relationship, relation, attitude
   1. relationship (a way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other)

   2. view, opinion (liking/approval or disliking/disapproval)

   Synonym: münasib?t

5. (by extension) ability, skills

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ara” in Obastan.com.

Bislama

Etymology

From English arrow.

Noun

ara

1. arrow

Blagar

Noun

ara

1. pan

References

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 172

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan ara), from Latin ad h?ram (compare Spanish ahora).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?a.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a.?a/
• Rhymes: -a?e

Adverb

ara

1. now (at the present time)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ara” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ara” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ara” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ara]

Noun

ara m anim ara f

1. ara

Declension

Related terms

• ararauna
• arakanga

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ra/, [?????]

Noun

ara c (singular definite araen, plural indefinite araer)

1. macaw (various parrots)

Inflection

Further reading

• ara on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.ra?/
• Hyphenation: ara

Noun

ara m (plural ara's)

1. macaw, parrot of the genus Ara
2. Also used of certain not closely related but visually similar parrots.

Ese

Noun

ara

1. house; building
2. village
3. (anatomy) placenta

Finnish

Noun

ara

1. macaw (various parrots of the genus Ara and some closely related genera)

Declension

Hypernyms

• papukaija

French

Etymology

From Old Tupi arara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.?a/

Noun

ara m (plural aras)

1. macaw

Further reading

• “ara” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Aar

Fyam

Noun

ara

1. skull

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ara.

Noun

ara f (plural aras)

1. altar

Synonyms

• (altar): altar

Gothic

Romanization

ara

1. Romanization of ????????????

Hiligaynon

Noun

ara

1. altar stone in a Catholic church

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *ar? (“maternal relative”, “mother’s (younger) brother”), probably a Proto-Iranian borrowing, compare Avestan ????????????????????????? (br?tar), Ossetian ?????? (ærvadæ, “brother”). The ending -a in Hungarian may be a diminutive or a third-person singular possessive suffix. It gained its current meaning during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?]
• Hyphenation: ara
• Rhymes: -r?

Noun

ara (plural arák)

1. (literary) bride

   Synonyms: menyasszony, (archaic) mátka

Declension

References

Further reading

• ara in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• ara in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ara.

Noun

ara (first-person possessive araku, second-person possessive aramu, third-person possessive aranya)

1. fig (tree or shrub)

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ara m (“charioteer; messenger, attendant”).

Noun

ara m (genitive singular ara, nominative plural araí)

1. charioteer
2. attendant
   1. horseboy

      Synonyms: giolla capaill, giolla eich

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ara (“temple”).

Noun

ara m or f (genitive singular ara or arach, nominative plural araí or aracha)

1. temple (of the forehead)

Declension

Feminine declension

Etymology 3

Interjection

ara!

1. Alternative form of arú (“Ah! No! So! Indeed!”)

Etymology 4

Noun

ara m (genitive singular ara, nominative plural araí)

1. Alternative form of earra (“goods; ware, merchandise; article of trade, commodity; accoutrement(s), trappings; apparel; article, thing”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "ara" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 ara (‘charioteer’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 ara (‘temple (of the forehead)’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “ara” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: à?ra

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin ?ra, from Old Latin ?sa, from Proto-Italic *?z? (“altar”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHsh?- (“hearth, fireplace”), derived from the root *h?eHs- (“to burn; hearth”).

Noun

ara f (plural are)

1. (Ancient Rome) The base upon which objects were sacrificed to the gods by fire.
2. (poetic) pyre

   Synonym: rogo

3. (by extension) altar

   Synonym: altare

References

• ara¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French are, from Latin ?rea. Doublet of area and aia.

Noun

ara f (plural are)

1. are, measurement of area (100 square metres)

Derived terms

• centiara

References

• ara² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

From translingual Ara, from Old Tupi ara.

Noun

ara f (plural are)

1. macaw

Derived terms

• ara ambigua
• ara di cuba
• ara glauca

References

• ara³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ara

1. inflection of arare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From ?sa, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHs-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.ra/, [?ä??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ra/, [?????]

Noun

?ra f (genitive ?rae); first declension

1. altar
2. sanctuary, refuge

Declension

First-declension noun.

Latvian

Verb

ara

1. 3rd person singular past indicative form of art
2. 3rd person plural past indicative form of art

Malay

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ar?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ara/
• Rhymes: -ar?, -r?, -?

Noun

ara (Jawi spelling ????, plural ara-ara, informal 1st possessive araku, impolite 2nd possessive aramu, 3rd possessive aranya)

1. fig (tree or shrub)

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *sala, from Proto-Oceanic *salan, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

Noun

ara

1. path (a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians)
2. path (a course taken)
3. path (a metaphorical course)
4. path (a method or direction of proceeding)
5. road (a way for travel)
6. road (a path in life)
7. street (paved part of road in a village or a town)
8. track (beaten path)
9. track (course; way)
10. track (path or course laid out for a race or exercise)
11. track (permanent way; the rails)
12. way (wide path)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *‘ara, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sadar.

Verb

ara

1. to rise up, awake, arise, revive

   N? t?tahi n?pepa te k?rero inatata nei kei te ara mai an? te reo M?ori.

   Just recently a newspaper reported that the M?ori language is reviving.

Nauruan

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic [Term?], from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *da?aq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *da?aq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *da?aq, from Proto-Austronesian *da?aq.

Noun

ara

1. blood (vital liquid flowing in animal bodies)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• adara (Gascon)
• aüra (Niçard)

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin ad h?ram.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ara

1. now

Derived terms

References

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, ?ISBN, page 28.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r?/

Noun

?ra pl

1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of ?r (“glory; oar”)
2. genitive plural of ?r (“ore; messenger”)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ara/

Etymology 1

Univerbation of ar (“for (the sake of), because of”) +? a (“the”, neuter accusative singular)

Article

ara (triggers eclipsis)

1. for (the sake of) the, because of the (neuter accusative singular)

Etymology 2

Univerbation of ar (“for (the sake of), because of”) +? a (“his/her/their”)

Determiner

ara (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

1. for (the sake of) his/her/its/their, because of his/her/its/their

Etymology 3

ar (“for (the sake of), because of”) +? -a (relative pronoun)

Pronoun

ara· (triggers lenition in direct relative clauses and eclipsis in indirect relative clauses)

1. for (the sake of) whom/which, because of whom/which

Conjunction

ara (negative arna or arná or arnacon or arnachon)

1. so that
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^d17

   Synonym: co

2. that (introduces a noun clause)

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, § 898

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?a/

Noun

ara

1. day, weather

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ra/

Noun

ara f

1. macaw (parrot of genus Ara)

Declension

Noun

ara

1. genitive singular of ar

Further reading

• ara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin ?ra.

Noun

ara f (plural aras)

1. any altar for sacrifices
2. (Catholicism) the altar stone: the stone covered by the corporal.

Etymology 2

Verb

ara

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of arar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of arar

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *sala, from Proto-Oceanic *salan, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

Noun

ara

1. path (a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians)
2. path (a course taken)
3. path (a metaphorical course)
4. path (a method or direction of proceeding)
5. road (a way for travel)
6. road (a path in life)
7. street (paved part of road in a village or a town)
8. track (beaten path)
9. track (course; way)
10. track (path or course laid out for a race or exercise)
11. track (permanent way; the rails)
12. way (wide path)

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin ar?re, present active infinitive of ar?, from Proto-Italic *ara?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éryeti (“to plough”), from the root *h?erh?-

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ra/

Verb

a ara (third-person singular present ar?, past participle arat) 1st conj.

1. to plough

Conjugation

Synonyms

• plug?ri

Related terms

• arat
• ar?tor
• ar?tur?

See also

• plug

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French ara, from Old Tupi ara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ra/

Noun

ara m (uncountable)

1. ara (bird)

Declension

See also

• cacadu
• jaco, iaco
• kakapo
• kea
• lori
• papagal
• peru?

References

• ara in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Southern Ohlone

Conjunction

ara

1. and

References

• Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta (1861) Grammar of the Mutsun language, spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California (Shea’s Library of American Linguistics)?^[4], volume IV, Cramoisy Press.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?a/, [?a.?a]

Verb

ara

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of arar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of arar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of arar.

Swedish

Noun

ara c

1. ara (macaw)

Declension

Synonyms

• arapapegoja

References

• ara in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *h?r- (“split, divide, cleave in twain”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (r¹a /?ra/).

Adjective

ara

1. intermediate area
2. interim

Noun

ara (definite accusative aray?, plural aralar)

1. breather
2. interval

Verb

ara

1. second-person singular imperative of aramak

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “ara”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Venetian

Alternative forms

• era

Etymology

From Latin ?rea. Compare Italian aia.

Noun

ara f (plural are)

1. farmyard (courtyard of a farm)

Zazaki

Noun

ara (c)

1. breakfast

English

Alternative forms

• araq, arrack, rack

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?araq). Doublet of ara.

Noun

arak (usually uncountable, plural araks)

1. A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East.
2. The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 51:

     They use perfume freely, paint their eyes with kohl, and are constantly polishing their teeth with twigs of green arak-wood.

3. Alternative spelling of arrack (an alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers in South Asia)

Related terms

• raki
• rakija

Translations

See also

• Arak (distilled beverage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kara, kara, rak'a

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?rak

Noun

arak

1. wine, liquor, alcoholic beverage

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ceb?a?rak

Noun

arak

1. the Philippine trogon (Harpactes ardens)

Chamorro

Etymology

From Malay arak; see there for more.

Noun

arak

1. distilled liquor made from fermented coconut milk

Ilocano

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay arak, from Arabic ?????? (?araq).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: á?rak
• IPA^(key): /??a?ak/

Noun

árak

1. wine; liquor; alcoholic beverage

Derived terms

See also

• basi

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *a?ak (“to walk single-file”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?rák
• IPA^(key): /?a??ak/, [????ak]

Noun

arák

1. gathering; congregation; assembly

Derived terms

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.rak/

Etymology 1

From Malay arak, from Arabic ?????? (?araq)

Noun

arak (plural arak-arak, first-person possessive arakku, second-person possessive arakmu, third-person possessive araknya)

1. arrack; an alcoholic beverage usually made from fermenting rice; rice wine

Synonyms

• tuak

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

arak

1. to (casually) walk or move past

Derived terms

Further reading

• “arak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (?araq).

Noun

arak (Jawi spelling ????, informal 1st possessive arakku, impolite 2nd possessive arakmu, 3rd possessive araknya)

1. beer

Synonyms

• bir

Descendants

• Indonesian: arak

Portuguese

Noun

arak m (plural araks)

1. Alternative form of áraque

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

arak m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. double sheet

Taivoan

Noun

arak

1. son

Tangam

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lak. Cognates include Burmese ??? (lak) and Tibetan ?? (lag).

Noun

arak

1. (anatomy) hand, arm

References

• Mark W. Post (2017) The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts, ?ISBN

Yogad

Noun

arák

1. (anatomy) throat