dra

dra

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Dravidian languages.

From Dutch dragen.

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dra (present dra, present participle draende, past participle gedra)

1. to carry
2. to wear

   Fjodor is die eerste Russiese tsaar wat Westerse klere dra.

   Fjodor is the first Russian tsar that wears western clothes.

From Proto-Albanian *drag-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”), likely of non-Indo-European origin.[1][2]

dra m (indefinite plural dra, definite singular drau, definite plural dratë)

1. sediment, dregs
2. smudged butter
3. sweepings, dirt

• ndrag

• IPA^(key): [ˈdra]

dra

1. masculine singular present transgressive of dřít

• dera

Inherited from Proto-Oceanic *draʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *daʀaq.

dra

1. blood
2. sap (of plant)

dra

1. to bleed

   E dra tiko na ucuna.

   His/her nose is bleeding.

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “dra”, in Fijian–English Dictionary: with notes on Fijian culture and natural history, Suva, Fiji: R. Gatty, →ISBN, page 70

From French drap (“sheet”).

dra

1. bedsheet

From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.

dra (imperative dra, present tense drar, passive dras, simple past dro or drog, past participle dratt or dradd, present participle dragende)

1. to draw; pull; drag
2. to leave; depart; go

   dra på ferie - to go on holiday

3. (colloquial) of a man, to masturbate

• drage (obsolete in Bokmål, but used in Nynorsk and Danish)

• “dra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• draga, drage (long forms).

From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /drɑː/

dra (present tense dreg or drar, simple past drog, supine drege or dratt or dradd, past participle dregen or dradd, present participle dragande, imperative dra)

1. (transitive) to pull; drag, draw
2. (intransitive) to leave; depart; go

   å dra på ferie

   to go on holiday

• “dra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *da (“locative case marker”).

dra

1. construction marker for common nouns, oblique

   a puyuma mekan dra tinalrek.

   Puyuma eat rice.

• Josiane Cauquelin (2015) Nanwang Puyuma-English Dictionary (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 56), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN, page 132

• draga (dated)

Apocopic form of draga, from Old Swedish dragha, from Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /drɑː/

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dra (present drar, preterite drog, supine dragit, imperative dra)

1. to pull

   Han drog i repet

   He pulled the rope (i adds a nuance of "pulled on," rather than "pulled along the ground" or the like)

2. to tell a short story or joke

   Dra den där fräckisen igen som du drog igår kväll

   Hey, tell that dirty story again, the one you told last night

3. (often with a particle like fram (“forth”)) to move (often of something large, like a storm or an army)

   Stormen drog fram över ön

   The storm swept across the island

   Stormen drog in över ön

   The storm moved in over the island

4. (colloquial) to go (somewhere), to leave (for some other place)

   Ska vi dra ner på stan?

   Wanna go downtown?

   Vi drog hem till Nisse

   We went to Nisse's place

   Vi drar!

   Let's get out of here!

   Synonyms: sticka, dunsta, gitta

5. (with med (“with”)) to be burdened (with)

   Han drogs med flera åkommor

   He was burdened with several ailments

6. to steep (be steeped in liquid in order to extract ("pull") flavor compounds, etc.)

   Låt teet dra i fyra minuter

   Let the tea steep for four minutes

• dra in Svensk ordbok.

• dar, rad

From Middle English drawen, from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan.

dra

1. to draw

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 36