different between arse vs rase

English

Alternative forms

• ass (US)

Etymology

From Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Dutch aars and German Arsch), from Proto-Indo-European *h?érsos (“backside, buttocks”) (according to Julius Pokorny and Carl Darling Buck).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??s/
• (Ireland, US) IPA^(key): /??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

arse (plural arses)

1. (current in South Africa, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, dated in New England, now vulgar) The buttocks or more specifically, the anus.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks, Thesaurus:anus

   • 2011, James Smart, The Guardian, 12 March:

     As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
2. (chiefly Britain, derogatory slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
   • 2007, Martin Harrison, The Judgement of Paris, p.282:

     “You're an arse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an arse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an arse.”

   • 2007, L. A. Wilson, The Silurian: Book One: The Fox and the Bear, p.103:

     He looked at me, was just about to call me an arse, when I told him, “You throw it too hard. Try and think of the javelin hitting the target before you throw it. Let it all go through your mind first, see it, feel it, then throw it.” ¶ “Good advice, you arse,” he said and tried again.

   • 2011, Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes, unnumbered page:

     Felnigg. What a suppurating arse. Look at him. Arse.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:arse.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: lasi

Translations

Verb

arse (third-person singular simple present arses, present participle arsing, simple past and past participle arsed)

1. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.

   Stop arsing around!

   • 1985, Sam McAughtry, McAughtry's War, page 10,

     He was university material, just arsing about as a rigger, arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me […] .

   • 2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 291,

     Pi, upset, roars, "Quit arsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.

   • 2011, Jaine Fenn, Bringer of Light, unnumbered page,

     He was half-expecting a call from the lingua, telling him to stop arsing around, but his com stayed silent, so it looked like a certain amount of arsing around was allowed.

Derived terms

• arse about (verb)
• arse around (verb)
• half-arsed (adjective)
• can't be arsed

Anagrams

• AREs, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, ears, eras, rase, reas, sare, sear, sera

Italian

Adjective

arse f pl

1. feminine plural of arso

Verb

arse

1. third-person singular indicative past historic of ardere

Participle

arse

1. feminine plural of the past participle of ardere

Anagrams

• ersa, rase, resa, sera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.se/, [?ärs??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.se/, [??rs?]

Participle

arse

1. vocative masculine singular of arsus

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of airi (“for the sake of it; therefore”) +? se (“this”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar??s?e/

Adverb

arse

1. therefore, for this/that reason

   Synonym: airi

   • 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. 12^a22

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ársis

Noun

arse f (plural arses)

1. (poetry, music) arsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?arse]

Adjective

arse

1. genitive/dative feminine singular of ars
2. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ars
3. genitive/dative feminine/neuter plural of ars

Verb

arse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of arde

English

Etymology

From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?z, IPA^(key): /?e?z/
• Homophones: raise, rays, raze, rehs, réis, res
• Rhymes: -e?z

Noun

rase (plural rases)

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

1. A scratching out, or erasure
2. A slight wound; a scratch
3. A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it

Verb

rase (third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased)

1. (obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze

   • Was he not in the […] neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have as easily gone into his head?

   • 1786, William Beckford, Vathek

     Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.

2. (obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 25:

     The painful warrior famousèd for worth,

     After a thousand victories once foil'd,

     Is from the book of honour razèd quite,

     And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost?

     Though of their Names in heav'nly Records now be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd. By their Rebellion, from the Books of Life.

   • 1645 Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times

     Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.

3. to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
4. to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, reas, sare, sear, sera

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rasa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?s?/, [????s?]

Verb

rase (imperative ras, infinitive at rase, present tense raser, past tense rasede, perfect tense har raset)

1. to rage
2. to storm

Estonian

Adjective

rase (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. pregnant

Synonyms

• tiine

Anagrams

• Ares
• aser
• raes
• reas

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?az/

Adjective

rase

1. feminine singular of of ras

Verb

rase

1. first-person singular present indicative of raser
2. third-person singular present indicative of raser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of raser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of raser
5. second-person singular imperative of raser

Anagrams

• ares, Arès, sera

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?z?

Verb

rase

1. inflection of rasen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Verb

rase

1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective

rase

1. feminine plural of raso

Anagrams

• arse, ersa, resa, sera

Latin

Participle

r?se

1. vocative masculine singular of r?sus

References

• rase in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

rase f (5th declension)

1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)
2. colour

Declension

Derived terms

• rasists

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Italian razza and Middle French race

Noun

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural raser, definite plural rasene)

1. a race (of humankind)
2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rasa

Verb

rase (imperative ras, present tense raser, passive rases, simple past raste, past participle rast, present participle rasende)

1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
4. (storm) to wreak havoc
5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
6. (with sammen) to collapse, cave in

Derived terms

• raseri

References

• “rase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rase_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “rase_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Italian razza and Middle French race

Noun

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural rasar, definite plural rasane)

1. a race (of humankind)
2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rasa

Verb

rase (present tense rasar, past tense rasa, past participle rasa, passive infinitive rasast, present participle rasande, imperative ras)

1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
4. (storm) to wreak havoc
5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
6. (with saman) to collapse, cave in

Alternative forms

• rasa

Derived terms

• raseri

References

• “rase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

rase

1. inflection of rasa (“taste”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Spanish

Verb

rase

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rasar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rasar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rasar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rasar.