Rah

German
die Rahen eines Segelschiffs – the yards of a sailing ship

Alternative forms

Etymology

In the nautical sense (17th c.) from Middle Low German râ, raa, from Proto-Germanic *rahō, *raihô.

The spellings in -h, -he may have been influenced by dialectal continuations of cognate Middle High German rahe (“pole, bar”), from Old High German raha; though the insertion of -h- in hiatus or at the end of a vocalic stem is also a general practice in German orthography. Further cognate with Dutch ra, Old Norse rá.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /raː/, [ʁaː]
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophone: rar (many speakers)

Noun

Rah f (genitive Rah, plural Rahen)

  1. (nautical) yard (horizontal spar on the mast of a sailing ship)

Declension
Declension of Rah [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Rah die Rahen
genitive einer der Rah der Rahen
dative einer der Rah den Rahen
accusative eine die Rah die Rahen

Hypernyms
  • Querstange

Derived terms

Further reading
  • “Rah” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Rah” in Duden online
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