rama

rama

1. (Mpakwithi) empty

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188

From Spanish rama (“branch”).

rama

1. branch

rama

1. third-person singular past historic of ramer

• arma

From Old Galician-Portuguese rama (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a collective from ramo, from Latin ramus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈramɐ]

rama f (plural ramas)

1. branch
   • 1336, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 157:

     con suas casas, casâês, chantados, jures, perteenças et dereituras per rama et per colmo et per terra

     with its houses, farmhouses, plantations, rights, belongings and limits, by branch and thatch and earth [in medieval Galician it was customary that the seller would give a branch, thatch and earth taken from the sold property to the buyer, as symbol of the transference of the property]

   Synonyms: galla, póla, varelo

2. foliage

   A rama da pataca usábase durante a guerra como substitutivo do tabaco.

   During the Spanish Civil War, potato foliage was used as a substitute of tobacco.

   Synonyms: ramallada, ramaxe

3. field, branch, discipline

• ramaxe
• ramallo
• ramo

• “rama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “rama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “rama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “rama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “rama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lam (“road”).

rama

1. road, way, path
2. means

• sorok

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rama

1. to spread (so that the object(s) dry in the sun)

• IPA^(key): /ɽá.màː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɽə́.màː]

ramā̀ f (possessed form ramàr̃)

1. hemp, jute

• IPA^(key): /ɽàː.má/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɽàː.mə́]

rā̀ma f (possessed form rā̀mar̃)

1. emaciation

From Malay rama, from Classical Malay rama.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrama]
• Hyphenation: ra‧ma

rama (first-person possessive ramaku, second-person possessive ramamu, third-person possessive ramanya)

1. (Java) father.

   Synonym: bapak

2. title conferred on an adult male

   Synonym: bapak

3. (Catholicism) standard spelling of romo (“priest”).

• “rama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

rama

1. inflection of ramare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• amar, arma, marà

From Old Javanese rāma (“father”).

rama (krama ngoko bapak, krama inggil rama)

1. title conferred on an adult male
2. (honorific) father

• "rama" in W. J. S. Poerwadarminta, Bausastra Jawa. J. B. Wolters' Uitgevers-Maatschappij N. V. Groningen, Batavia, 1939

Borrowed from Old Javanese rama, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ramə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /rama/
• Rhymes: -amə, -mə, -ə

rama (Jawi spelling راما‎, plural rama-rama, informal 1st possessive ramaku, 2nd possessive ramamu, 3rd possessive ramanya)

1. father (male parent)

• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba, papa)
• abah (aba, bah)
• ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)

• “rama” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Indonesian damar).

rama

1. torch
2. light

From English rum.

rama

1. rum

From Proto-West Germanic *ramu, from Proto-Germanic *ramō. Cognate with Old Saxon hrama, Old Norse ramr, Old Dutch *rama, Old Frisian *rama, *rame.

rama f

1. support

• Middle High German: ram, rame
  • Alemannic German: Ramme
  • German: Rahmen, Ramen, Rahme, Rame
    • → Romanian: ramă
    • → Russian: рама (rama)
    • → Czech: rám
  • Luxembourgish: Rumm
  • Vilamovian: raom

rama

1. mad
2. crazy

Borrowed from German Rahmen, from Middle High German ram, rame (“column, frame”), from Old High German rama (“support”), from Proto-Germanic *ramō (“prop, frame”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *rem(w)- (“to rest, prop up; a support, base”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ma/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: ra‧ma

rama f (diminutive ramka)

1. frame
2. crossbar (tube of a bicycle frame)

• rama in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: ra‧ma

rama f (plural ramas)

1. foliage

rama

1. torch

From French ramer.

a rama (third-person singular present ramează, past participle ramat) 1st conj.

1. (intransitive) to row

From a Germanic language (compare German Rahmen).

rama m (plural ramas)

1. (Sursilvan) frame, framework

• rom (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)
• ram (Puter)

• ramu (italianazed)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin rāma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʐa.ma/ (Standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɾa.ma/ (Weakened)
• Hyphenation: rà‧ma

rama f (plural rami)

1. branch (woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing)
2. (figuratively) offshoot (that which develops from something else)

From Proto-Slavic *òrmę.

• IPA^(key): /ràːma/

ráma f

1. shoulder (joint between arm and torso)

• “rama”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From ramo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrama/ [ˈra.ma]

• Audio (Colombia)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: ra‧ma

rama f (plural ramas)

1. branch (woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing)
2. (figuratively) offshoot (that which develops from something else)

• vara

• “rama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• amar
• arma

rama

1. Romanization of ᮛᮙ

From ram (“frame”) +‎ -a.

rama (present ramar, preterite ramade, supine ramat, imperative rama)

1. to frame (put a frame around)
2. (Scania, Malmö) to give somebody a lift on a bicycle

• rama in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• “’Ska jag rama dig?’”, in Språket i P1‎, Sveriges Radio, 7 June 2016, retrieved 14 April 2020

• aram., arma, mara

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rama

1. frame

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “оправа”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika