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. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.

   Coordinate term: lagg

   at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh

   • 1963, Field Studies [Council of Great Britain], volume 1, page 132:

     Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.

   • 1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg":

     Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.

   • 2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, page 288:

     […] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.

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. (UK, dialect, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
   • 1867, Anderson, Rhymes, page 44:

     They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.

4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.

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5. (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

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• 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.

The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.

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. (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker], Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, Northward Hoe (The Tudor Facsimile Texts; 23), [Amersham, Buckinghamshire: John S. Farmer], 1914, →OCLC, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2, recto:

     […] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court.

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, Euskaltzaindia

From Old Norse rǫnd.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑnˀ/

rand (singular definite randen, plural indefinite rande)

1. rand

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
2. (topology) boundary

• bosrand
• dakrand
• grasrand
• randcrimineel
• randdebiel
• randfiguur
• randvoorwaarde
• 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

Declension of rand (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-n gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		rand	rannad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ranna
genitive			randade
partitive		randa	rande randasid
illative		randa rannasse	randadesse rannesse
inessive		rannas	randades rannes
elative		rannast	randadest rannest
allative		rannale	randadele rannele
adessive		rannal	randadel rannel
ablative		rannalt	randadelt rannelt
translative		rannaks	randadeks ranneks
terminative		rannani	randadeni
essive		rannana	randadena
abessive		rannata	randadeta
comitative		rannaga	randadega

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

Borrowed from Afrikaans rand. Doublet of rant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: rand
• Homophone: rant

rand m animal (related adjective randowy)

1. rand (currency of South Africa)

• rand in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English 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, boundary
2. stripe, streak

• fartrand

• randas

• rand in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rand in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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

Inflection of rand (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	rand
genitive sing.	randan
partitive sing.	randad
partitive plur.	randoid
	singular	plural
nominative	rand	randad
accusative	randan	randad
genitive	randan	randoiden
partitive	randad	randoid
essive-instructive	randan	randoin
translative	randaks	randoikš
inessive	randas	randoiš
elative	randaspäi	randoišpäi
illative	randaha	randoihe
adessive	randal	randoil
ablative	randalpäi	randoilpäi
allative	randale	randoile
abessive	randata	randoita
comitative	randanke	randoidenke
prolative	randadme	randoidme
approximative I	randanno	randoidenno
approximative II	randannoks	randoidennoks
egressive	randannopäi	randoidennopäi
terminative I	randahasai	randoihesai
terminative II	randalesai	randoilesai
terminative III	randassai	—
additive I	randahapäi	randoihepäi
additive II	randalepäi	randoilepäi

• 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^[1], 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
2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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