rah

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of hurrah.

Interjection

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rah

  1. An exclamation of support or encouragement.
    • 2011, Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander, American Public School Law, page 668:
      Not so very long ago, a row of docile cheerleaders would say, “rah, rah, rah, sis-boombah”—maybe a leg would kick up into the air, perhaps a jump under the cheerleader's own power.
  2. (Internet slang) An exclamation of patriotic or passionate excitement.
    • 2023 June 24, u/crappylilAccident, “Clamworks truth”, in Reddit[1], r/Clamworks, archived from the original on 24 January 2024:
      I FUCKING LOVE PEOPLE!!!! I FUCKING WANT TO USE THE LIMITED TIME I HAVE TO RESPECT OTHERS AND WHAT THEY ENJOY RAHHHHH
    • 2023 October 28, u/Safe-Scarcity2835, “Choose Your Side:”, in Reddit[2], r/balkans_irl, archived from the original on 24 January 2024:
      RAHHHH IRELAND MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🇮🇪🗣🗣🗣🇮🇪🗣🗣🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🔥🟢⚪️🟢⚪️🟢⚪️🟢⚪️💪💪
    • 2024 January 6, u/our_cut, “What old school league terms or 'memes' have disappeared from the game in recent years?”, in Reddit[3], r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 24 January 2024:
      MORDEKAISER MENTIONED RAAHHHH ❗❗❗❗❗❗🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 WTF IS MOBILITY
    • 2024 January 7, @pop_priestess, Twitter[4], archived from the original on 24 January 2024:
      PHILIPPINES MENTIONED RAHHHH 🇵🇭 🦅
Derived terms
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Noun

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rah (plural rahs)

  1. (British, informal) A person (especially a student) with a posh accent who looks down on those who are "common".
    • 2012, Helen Pidd, Letter from India: it's no easy matter being a woman looking for a decent drink in Delhi: The Guardian[5]:
      I didn't need to make a mental note not to follow their advice: like every other pretentious foreigner from the gap year rahs to the retired yoga addicts, I had no intention of stepping into a shopping centre. I was going to discover the real India.

Adjective

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rah (comparative more rah, superlative most rah)

  1. (British, informal) Posh.
    • 2022 January 9, Douglas Murray, “Boris Johnson has utterly failed to back up his anti-woke rhetoric with action”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph[6], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-25:
      The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type.

Etymology 2

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Clipping of rhatid.

Interjection

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rah

  1. (MLE) An expression of surprise.
  2. (MLE) An expression of admiration.
    • 2016, Wiley, quoted in This Is Grime by Hattie Collins and Olivia Rose, Hachette UK, page 145:
      Target bought[sic] the tape round, I listened to it and I was like, ‘Rah, this is sick, this kid is so sick’.
  3. (MLE) An expression of frustration or anger.
Synonyms
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Anagrams

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Javanese

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Romanization

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rah

  1. Romanization of ꦫꦃ

Mizo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Kuki-Chin *raʔ (fruit), maybe from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ras (rice). Cognate found in Tibetan འབྲས ('bras).

Noun

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rah

  1. fruit, berry
    rah tlanbird-traps consisting of a kind of fruit
  2. acorn, nut

Verb

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rah

  1. to bear fruit
    rah duhfor a tree to be fruitful
    rah ṭhato bear good fruit
    rah chhiato bear bad fruit

Old Javanese

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Noun

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rah

  1. Alternative spelling of rāh

Somali

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Etymology

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Cognate with Jiiddu raki.[1]

Noun

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rah f

  1. frog

References

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  1. ^ Salim Alio Ibro (1998) English-Jiddu-Somali Mini-Dictionary, Victoria, Australia: La Trobe University Language Center, →ISBN

Sumerian

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Romanization

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rah

  1. Romanization of 𒈛 (raḫ)