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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.

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

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

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

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

As one of Ms. Turner’s interview subjects says, the Sun Ra ethos was “Be otherwise.”

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

Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane recur frequently in these ways.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

He brought priceless experience, having played with greats such as Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock and Duke Ellington, and a sense of service and desire to teach others that continued well after his retirement in 2011.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

So each day we face the heavenly orb in the sky and pray, asking Ra to continue giving us the gift of life on earth.

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

The latest trial centered on patients with D2T RA who failed to see improvement in their symptoms after trying at least two advanced therapies.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

Concerns about specimens displayed at the University of Tasmania RA Rodda Museum in Hobart were first raised in 2016 after three bone samples were suspected of having been obtained without the consent of family members.

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

He had seen their own RA units at work, tightly knit groups, working all hours, proud of the speed with which they could set up a line, and proud of their discipline, drills, training, teamwork.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

In fiction, we recommend debuts from DéLana R.A.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

“The best way to avoid a resort fee is to ask to have it removed because you are not going to use it,” says Robert A. Rauch, CEO of R.A.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022

But the item in her scouting report most likely to help her compete with the men right now is The Thing, a pitch originating out of conversations with knuckleballers R.A.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2022

I struck up a friendship with Finster, and with R.A.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

He was elected to the full rank of R.A. in 1839, and was knighted in the same year.

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler