rrah

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

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • rraf

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rah/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *wragska, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥h₁ǵʰ-sḱé-ti, from *wreh₁ǵʰ-.

Verb

rrah (aorist rraha, participle rrahur)

  1. to strike, beat
  2. to punch (colloquial)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

A deverbative formation.

Noun

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

  1. grubbed out land
Declension
Declension of rrah
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rrah rrahu rrahe rrahet
accusative rrahun
dative rrahu rrahut rraheve rraheve
ablative rrahesh

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