rand

• IPA^(key): /ɹænd/

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• Rhymes: -ænd

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

rand (plural rands)

1. (obsolete, now dialect) The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
2. (obsolete, now dialect) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
   • 1621 (first performance)​, John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins

3. (dialect) A border, edge or rim.

   At the wald's rand.

4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.

rand (plural rands or rand)

1. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

• Wikipedia article on the rand

See rant.

rand (third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed)

1. (obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • J. Webster

     I wept, […] and raved, randed, and railed.

Shortened from random.

rand (plural rands)

1. (programming) A random number.

• DNAR, DNRA, Nard, andr-, darn, nard, rDNA, rdna

From Dutch rand, from Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɐnt/

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rand (plural rande or rand)

1. edge, border
2. rand (numismatics)

Ultimately from Afrikaans rand.

• IPA^(key): /rand/, [rãn̪d̪]

rand inan

1. rand (currency of South Africa)

• "rand" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

From Middle Dutch rant, from Old Dutch *rant, from Proto-Germanic *randaz.

• IPA^(key): /rɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: rand
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

rand m (plural randen, diminutive randje n)

1. edge, brink, rim

• bosrand
• dakrand
• grasrand
• randcrimineel
• randdebiel
• randfiguur
• rouwrand
• Randstad
• stoeprand

• Afrikaans: rand
• → Papiamentu: rant

From either Proto-Balto-Slavic *kranta or Proto-Norse [script needed] (*stranđa). Compare German Strand (“beach”), Lithuanian krantas (“beach, shore”) and Finnish ranta (“shore, beach, bank”).

IPA^(key): /ˈrɑnd̥/

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

1. beach

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (currency)

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

rand

1. shore

From Arabic رَنْد‎ (rand).

• IPA^(key): /rant/

rand m (collective, singulative randa, paucal randiet)

1. laurel (Laurus nobilis)

From Old Norse rǫnd.

rand f or m (definite singular randa or randen, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. edge
2. brim (e.g. of a glass)

• randhav

From Afrikaans rand (named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district).

rand m (definite singular randen, indefinite plural rand, definite plural randene)

1. rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

From Old Norse rǫnd.

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural render, definite plural rendene)

1. stripe

   med lette Smaasky, lagd i langa Render

   with small light clouds laid in long stripes

2. type, nature, tendency (to do something)
3. brim (e.g. of a glass)
4. edge

Although Old Norse rǫnd meant edge, the Norwegian word traditionally lacks that meaning.

• randhav

From Afrikaans rand, named after The Rand (Witwatersrand), a gold mining district.

rand m (plural randen)

1. rand (monetary unit of South Africa)

rand f (definite singular randa, indefinite plural rander, definite plural randene)

1. mantelpiece

• “rand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “rand”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

• rond

From Proto-West Germanic *rand, *randu, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō, from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Old Norse rǫnd (“edge, rim; (poetic) shield”).

• IPA^(key): /rɑnd/

rand m

1. outer part of something: edge, brink, rim, margin
2. (poetic) shield or the boss of a shield

• randbēag

• berindan
• ġerendrian
• rendan
• rind
• rinde
• tōrendan

• Middle English: rand, rond
  • English: rand
  • Scots: rand

rand m (plural rands)

1. rand (numismatics unit of South Africa)

From Old Norse rǫnd, cognate with Icelandic rönd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrand/

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rand c

1. edge, border
2. stripe, streak

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

rand

1. coast, shore
2. beach
3. end, edge, boundary
4. land, country

• randaline
• randatoi
• randišt
• kodirand
• kül'bendrand
• randird

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

From Proto-Finnic *ranta, borrowed from either Balto-Slavic or North Germanic. Cognates include Estonian rand, Finnish ranta.

rand (genitive ranna, partitive randa)

1. beach, shore
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