different between rand vs raad

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *rand? (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

Noun

rand (plural rands)

1. (obsolete, now dialect) The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
2. (obsolete, now dialect) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.

   • They came with chopping-knives
     To cut me into rands and sirloins

3. (dialect) A border, edge or rim.

4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.

Noun

rand (plural rands or rand)

1. a rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on the rand

Etymology 3

See rant.

Verb

rand (third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed)

1. (obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • J. Webster

     I wept, […] and raved, randed, and railed.

Anagrams

• -andr-, DNAR, DNRA, Nard, andr-, darn, nard, rDNA, rdna

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rand, from Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?nt/

Noun

rand (plural rande or rand)

1. edge, border
2. rand (currency)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?nt/
• Hyphenation: rand
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

rand m (plural randen, diminutive randje n)

1. edge, brink, rim

Derived terms

• bosrand
• grasrand
• randcrimineel
• randdebiel
• randfiguur
• rouwrand
• Randstad
• stoeprand

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rand

Estonian

Etymology

From either Proto-Balto-Slavic *kranta or Proto-Norse [script needed] (*stran?a). Compare German Strand (“beach”), Lithuanian krantas (“beach, shore”) and Finnish ranta (“shore, beach, bank”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?r?nd?/

Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

1. beach

Declension

French

Noun

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (currency)

Ludian

Etymology

Related to Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand

1. shore

Maltese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rand m

1. bay (herb)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse r?nd

Noun

rand f or m (definite singular randa or randen, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. edge
2. brim (e.g. of a glass)

Derived terms

• randhav

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand (named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district)

Noun

rand m (definite singular randen, indefinite plural rand, definite plural randene)

1. rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse r?nd.

Noun

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. edge
2. brim (e.g. of a glass)

Derived terms

• randhav

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand, named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district.

Noun

rand m (definite singular randen, indefinite plural rand, definite plural randane)

1. (numismatics) rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

Etymology 3

Noun

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural rander, definite plural randene)

1. mantelpiece

References

• “rand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *randaz, *rand?, from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, prop or support oneself”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?nd/

Noun

rand m (nominative plural randas)

1. outer part of something: edge, brink, rim, margin
2. (poetic) shield or the boss of a shield

Derived terms

• randb?ag

Descendants

• English: rand

Portuguese

Noun

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (currency unit of South Africa)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse r?nd, cognate with Icelandic rönð.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rand/

Noun

rand c

1. edge, border
2. stripe, streak

Declension

Veps

Etymology

Related to Estonian rand and Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand

1. coast, shore
2. beach
3. end, edge, boundary
4. land, country

Inflection

Derived terms

• randaline
• randatoi
• randišt
• kodirand
• kül'bendrand
• randird

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????, ????, ???????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

Related to Estonian rand and Finnish ranta.

Noun

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

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2. beach, shore

Inflection

Synonyms

• viiviir'

Derived terms

• Elevandiluurand

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??n/, /r?n?/, /ræ??t/, /r???t/, /r??d/

  Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Norse r?nd, rönd (“stripe, streak, edge”).

Noun

rand m (definite plural ranän)

1. A rafter under the roof, on which wood is set to dry.
2. (in the plural) Rafters between the walls of an outhouse at a fair distance from the floor and apart from each other, to set upon any tools during seasons when not in use, or anything else one wishes to be rid of; scaffolding under the roof for laying up firewood, timber, etc.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse r?nd, rönd (“stripe, streak, edge”).

Noun

rand f (definite plural rendren)

1. Potato trench.
2. Stripe, streak.
3. (figuratively) A streak, a tendency or characteristic.

Related terms

• dagsrand
• pär-rand
• randgäl
• randut

Etymology 3

Noun

rand n

1. An aspen or birch circle bound together with root fibres, which with a cow udder is made a sieve.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (ra?d, “thunder”).

Noun

raad

1. The electric catfish.

Anagrams

• ADAR, Adar, Dara, Draa, Drâa, Rada, arad, rada

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?t/
• Hyphenation: raad
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch râet, from Old Dutch r?t, from Proto-West Germanic *r?d, from Proto-Germanic *r?daz.

Noun

raad m (plural raden, diminutive raadje n)

1. An advice, counsel.

   Synonym: advies

2. A council, board, body which advises, concerts and/or decides.
3. (historical, obsolete, current in compound official titles) A person who gives advice in an official, permanent capacity; a councillor; title of a member of an advisory body to a sovereign or a judicial council.

Derived terms

Related terms

• raden

Descendants

• Afrikaans: raad
• ? Indonesian: rad

Etymology 2

Verb

raad

1. first-person singular present indicative of raden
2. imperative of raden

Anagrams

• Aard, aard, daar

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish rót (“road; highway”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?d?/, /ra?d?/

Noun

raad m (genitive singular raaidjey, plural raaidjyn)

1. A road, roadway.

2. trail, track

3. way, route, direction

Synonyms

• (road, roadway): bayr

Derived terms

• fo-raad (“branch, secondary road”)

Etymology 2

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

Verb

raad (verbal noun raadey, past participle raadit)

1. (intransitive) anchor

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 rót”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *raad-/*riid-

Noun

raad

1. track, footprint

References

• “raad” In: Abdullah Umar Mansur (1985) Qaamuska Afsoomaliga.

Turkish

Noun

raad (definite accusative raad?, plural raadlar)

1. (Internet) Alternative form of rahat