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• rā
  rā

  noun

  the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
• Ra
  Ra

  noun

  a sun god of Heliopolis, a universal creator worshiped throughout Egypt (typically represented as a hawk-headed man bearing on his head the solar disk and the uraeus).
• RA
  RA

  regular army.
• R.A.
  R.A.

  abbreviation

  rear admiral.

rā

¹ American  

[rah] / rɑ /

noun

1. the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.

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Ra ² American  

[rah] / rɑ /

Also Re

noun

Egyptian Religion.

1. a sun god of Heliopolis, a universal creator worshiped throughout Egypt (typically represented as a hawk-headed man bearing on his head the solar disk and the uraeus).

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Ra ³ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. radium.

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RA ⁴ American  

1. regular army.

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R.A. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. rear admiral.

2. Astronomy. right ascension.

3. royal academician.

4. Royal Academy.

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RA ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. rear admiral

2. astronomy right ascension

3. (in Britain) Royal Academician or Academy

4. (in Britain) Royal Artillery

5. Argentina (international car registration)

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Ra ² British  

symbol

1. radium

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Ra ³ British  

/ rɑː /

noun

1. the ancient Egyptian sun god, depicted as a man with a hawk's head surmounted by a solar disc and serpent

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Etymology

Origin of rā

From Arabic

Example Sentences

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rā Ra RA R.A.

Ray, rā, n. a popular name for such flat, cartilaginous fishes as the skate, thornback, and torpedo.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Ray, rā, n. the scab—a disease of sheep.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Reh, rā, n. a saline efflorescence which comes to the surface in extensive tracts of Upper India.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

It seems overdue that he would be the topic of an “American Masters” episode, but for Sun Ra time was fluid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

It has left some anxious about the real life fallout from the political instability, including Seoul resident Ra Ji-soo, who reported hearing helicopters near her home late on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

Krans leads occasional yoga nidra sessions at the kundalini-focused Ra Ma Institute on the Westside, where she guides followers into the same “slippery, lucid state” that births her own creations.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024

Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane recur frequently in these ways.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

As the sun, Ra, passes overhead, the obelisk will cast a moving shadow across the ground.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

“I’ve always wanted to do a hotel,” says RA Rudolph, the studio’s co-founder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Researchers are testing the drug’s efficacy in patients with difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis, also known as D2T RA; the treatment is delivered as a subcutaneous injection once a week.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

The RA Rodda Pathology Museum was established in 1966 to support teaching and research in medical sciences.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Neither Nathaniel Horwitz nor Koppelman, the publisher of Hunterbrook Media, has any professional stock-picking experience, though Horwitz spent nearly four years investing in and helping build biotech startups at investment firm RA Capital Management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Each door had names tacked on the front in careful calligraphy done by the RA.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Mr. Moog, whom Mr. Deutsch had met at a music trade show, was working on his Ph.D. in engineering physics at Cornell University while running the small R.A.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

The results of the writers’ vote will be announced in January, when Bronson Arroyo, Carlos Beltrán, Matt Cain, R.A.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2022

On Sept. 17, 2021, R.A. and his roommate drove the cub to an animal rescue center in Alpine, Calif., in a large dog kennel and dropped it off at the entrance, prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

VANCOUVER, Wash. — When Willard “Wink” Lamb broke the 220-yard Washington state swimming record in 1940 as a senior at Longview’s R.A.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2022

In 1864 he became R.A., and in 1882 was elected treasurer, a post which he held till 1897, when he resigned and became a “retired Academician.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various