different between raven vs swarthy

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r??v?n, IPA^(key): /??e?v?n/
• Rhymes: -e?v?n

Noun

raven (countable and uncountable, plural ravens)

1. (countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
2. A jet-black colour.

Derived terms

• Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)
• brown-necked raven (Corvus ruficollis)
• Chatham raven (Corvus moriorum)
• Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus)
• common raven (Corvus corax)
• dwarf raven (Corvus edithae)
• fan-tailed raven (Corvus rhipidurus)
• forest raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
• little raven (Corvus mellori)
• New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum)
• northern raven (Corvus corax)
• pied raven
• raven-messenger
• relict raven (Corvus tasmanicus boreus)
• Somali raven (Corvus edithae)
• Tasmanian raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
• thick-billed raven (Corvus crassirostris)
• western raven (Corvus corax sinuatus)
• white-necked raven (Corvus albicollis)

Translations

Adjective

raven (not comparable)

1. Of the color of the raven; jet-black

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rap?na (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).

Alternative forms

• ravin, ravine

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?v??n, IPA^(key): /??æv?n/
• Rhymes: -æv?n

Noun

raven (plural ravens)

1. Rapine; rapacity.
2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Translations

Verb

raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)

1. (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
2. (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
3. (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.

   The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.

4. (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
   • 1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof,”^[1]

     […] because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or else they wil doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes […]

   • 1852, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Story” in The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales,^[2]

     They passed along towards the great hall-door, where the winds howled and ravened for their prey […]

   • 1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-Wolves, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Chapter 8, p. 114,^[3]

     The Greek were-wolf is closely related to the vampire. The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.

   • 1931, James B. Fagan, The Improper Duchess, London: Victor Gollancz, 1932, Act 3, p. 237,^[4]

     On one side the great temple where you can gather the good harvest—on the other a dirty little scandal that you’ve nosed out to fling to paper scavengers who feed it to their readin’ millions ravening for pornographic dirt.

Related terms

• ravener
• ravening
• ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness

Further reading

• Corvus corax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Verna

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?v?(n)/

Verb

raven

1. to (hold a) rave, to party wildly

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?v?(n)/
• Rhymes: -a?v?n

Noun

raven

1. Plural form of raaf

Anagrams

• ervan, varen

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ravan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn.

Noun

r?ven m

1. raven

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• r?vene
• r?ve

Descendants

• Dutch: raaf
  • Afrikaans: raaf
  • ? Sranan Tongo: rafru
• Limburgish: raof

Further reading

• “raven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “raven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orv?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rà???n/

Adjective

ráv?n (comparative rávnejši, superlative n?jrávnejši)

1. even, level

Inflection

Alternative forms

• rav?n (archaic)

Derived terms

• rávnost

Further reading

• “raven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Etymology

Alteration of swarty, from swart +? -y, from Old English sweart (“black”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sw??ði/

Adjective

swarthy (comparative swarthier, superlative swarthiest)

1. Tawny, dusky, dark.
2. Dark-skinned.
3. Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny.
   • 1751, Benjamin Franklin, "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind"

     the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People

   • 2016 "Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, Second Edition" page 11

     Such was the religion that a young, swarthy man of medium height took with him as he trudged off to the University of Erfurt in May 1501.

4. (nonstandard) Evil, malicious.
5. (nonstandard) Weathered, rough.

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned): black, dusky, sable, sooty

Translations

Noun

swarthy (plural swarthies)

1. A swarthy person.
   • 1900, The Whole Prose Romances of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, page 70

     Finally I saw all our Italian women and my mother, torn in pieces, cut up, massacred by the monsters who contended for them ; the captives, my companions, the Moors who had taken us, the soldiers, the sailors, the blacks, the whites, the swarthies, the mulattoes, and lastly, my captain himself, were all slain

   • 1962, The Skipper volume 22, page 21

     Then one of the swarthies popped a couple of shovels of coal into the small fo'c's'le stove — for it was cold that July night Down Under — and everyone began to talk.

   • 1980, The secret of Sam Marlow: The Further Adventures of the Man with Bogart's Face, page 12

     Hobby Lobby made a slight motion with his left hand and the swarthies froze in the desert.

   • 1997, The Chariton Review, Volume 23, Issue 1, page 71

     The swarthies just stood waiting for whatever was in the air. I wanted to get up and walk away. But I didn't even budge.

   • 2010, Sympathy for the Devil, page 366

     Real controversial stuff, sure, but you know what, he was actually in the dead center of polite opinion when it came to the Negroes and the swarthies and money-grubbing kikes and all those other lovely stereotypes.

   • 2014, Dead Men Don't Eat Lunch, page 52

     The swarthies didn't bother to threaten us this time; instead, they mocked us with catcalls and whistles, as we squeezed past them in abject humiliation.

   • 2015, Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting, page 24

     A school friend of mine, Gavin, one of the swarthies, organised one May afternoon a tea party at his parents' house in Cheyne Walk.