different between rrah vs brah

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

rrah

1. A cry uttered by an infant vervet when separated from its mother.
   • 1983, William C. Stebbins, The Acoustic Sense of Animals (page 140)

     Struhsaker has recorded at least five different distress calls by infant vervets related to mother-infant separation. As the distance between mother and infant increases the "rrah" call changes to "eee" or "rrr" with an increase in intensity.

   • 2011, Jean Aitchison, The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (page 25)

     Even the impressive vervet monkey has only thirty-six distinct vocal sounds in its repertoire. […] An infant separated from its mother gives the lost rrah cry.

Anagrams

• Harr, harr

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rah/, [ra?]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *wragska, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?h???-s?é-ti, from *wreh???-.

Verb

rrah (first-person singular past tense rraha, participle rrahur)

1. to strike, beat

Conjugation

Etymology 2

A deverbative formation.

Noun

rrah m (indefinite plural rrahe, definite singular rrahu, definite plural rrahet)

1. grubbed out land

Related terms

• rras
• rrëzoj

English

Alternative forms

• bra, bro, bruh

Noun

brah (plural brahs)

1. Alternative spelling of bra (“brother, friend”).
   • 2005, Kem Nunn, Tapping the Source:

     Hey, brah, do me a favor. Don't lay your guilt trip on me. Why didn't you tell her?

Anagrams

• Bahr., Harb, h bar, h-bar, hbar

Alak

Noun

brah

1. (Harak) sky

Alternative forms

• prah (Alak)

Further reading

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From English brother.

Noun

brah

1. male friend, bro