different between ratan vs rattan

English

Noun

ratan (countable and uncountable, plural ratans)

1. Alternative form of rattan

Anagrams

• Arant, Ratna, Trana, antra, ran at, taran

Javanese

Noun

ratan

1. major road

Ladin

Verb

ratan

1. gerund of rater

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rotan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???tan/, /??atan/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???tæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

rattan (countable and uncountable, plural rattans)

1. Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
2. (uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
3. (by extension) A cane made from this material.
   • 1906, Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula

     He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.

   • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • 2008, Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization

     […] the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline […]

Translations

Verb

rattan (third-person singular simple present rattans, present participle rattaning, simple past and past participle rattaned)

1. (transitive) To beat with a rattan cane.
   • 1915, Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary (volume 51, page 56)

     Meanwhile Captain Colville rattaned Pearson very severely […]

Further reading

• rattan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Calamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Tartan, Tatran, tantra, tartan