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Translingual
Etymology 1
Modification of capital letter R by not closing the bottom of the loop but continuing into the leg to save a pen stroke, later shortening the right leg into a simple arc.
Alternative forms
- ꝛ (archaic)
See also
- (Latin script): Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Sſs Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
- (Variations of letter R): Ŕŕ Řř Ṙṙ Ŗŗ Ȑȑ Ȓȓ Ṛṛ Ṝṝ Ṟṟ Ɍɍ Ɽɽ ᵲ ᶉ ɼ ɾ ᵳ Ʀʀ Rr
- (select symbols) ® ℝ ɻ r̃
- (other scripts) Cyrillic р (r) я (ja), Greek ρ (r, “rho”), Hebrew ר (r, “resh”), Hangeul ㄹ (r, “rieul”)
- dog's letter
Pronunciation
IPA (file)
Symbol
r
- Abbreviation of ronto-.
- (engineering, geometry) radius
- (IPA) (a) an alveolar trill.
- (b) Used in broad transcription for any rhotic consonant, e.g. in English, French or Japanese where the ⟨r⟩ is not a trill [r].
- (c) (superscript ⟨ʳ⟩) an [r]-trill release (of a plosive); a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [r].
- (d) (superscript, obsolete) a non-trilled rhotic coloration or offglide of a vowel; a rhotic vowel, now formed with ⟨◌˞⟩ or a more-precise transcription such as ⟨ʴ⟩ – see ⟨ʳ⟩.
- (phonetics) used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent various rhotic sounds:
Synonyms
- (Romanization of רּ, “reish”, “resh”, “rēš ḥāzāq”): rr (in the Hebrew Academy (1953 and 2006) and ISO 259 transliteration schemes)
Gallery
- Letter styles
- Uppercase and lowercase versions of R, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase R in Fraktur
English
Etymology 1

Old English lower case letter Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚱ.
Pronunciation
- (letter name):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑː(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹ/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /ɔːɹ/
- (AAVE) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹə/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- (phoneme): (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ɹ/ or a lengthening of the previous vowel, (rhotic) IPA(key): /ɹ/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file)
Letter
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Number
r (lower case, upper case R)
- The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.
Etymology 2
From are and our, pronounced like the name of the letter Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Determiner
r
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of our.
- 2013, Jessica Burkhart, Home for Christmas (Canterwood Crest; Super Special), New York, NY: Aladdin M!X, →ISBN, page 44:
- This was supposed 2 be a SURPRISE, but the girls got it out of me. ☺ I wanted all of us 2 spend Xmas 2gether. By all, I mean r horses 2. Sooo . . . B, C, G, Z, & D, you have guests waiting @ BC. Zane, Valentino, Scout, Nero, & Polo r there! Now we can ride r horses when we r not volunteering & spend Xmas w them. ☺
Etymology 3
Abbreviations.
r
- (stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɑr/, including the verb are
- (stenoscript) Abbreviation of her and inflection hers.
- (stenoscript) Abbreviation of our, inflection ours, and homophone hour.
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /r/
Letter
r lower case (upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ere/, [e̞.re̞]
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛr
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛr/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Derived terms
See also
Egyptian
Etymology 1
The actual reading of this word is uncertain, as it is always written as an ideogram, but evidence from Coptic suggests the original was rꜣ. The extension in meaning to ‘part, piece, fraction’ might be either by way of a mouthful being used as a standard share in some distribution of food or goods,[1] or else extended from its meaning of ‘opening’ > ‘division’.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ɾaʀ/ → /ɾaʀ/ → /ɾaʔ/ → /ɾaʔ/[2]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: er
- (modern Egyptological, US) IPA(key): /ɝ/
Noun
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m
- mouth (of humans or animals)
- Reign of Amenemhat II or Senusret II, c. 1929–1878 BCE, Stela of Hekaib (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, AP 78):
- jnk nḏs jqr ḏd m r(ꜣ).f
- I was an excellent individual, one who spoke with his own mouth.
- Reign of Amenemhat II or Senusret II, c. 1929–1878 BCE, Stela of Hekaib (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, AP 78):
- (figuratively, chiefly in titles) speaker, mouthpiece
- utterance, statement
- especially, ritual utterance, spell
- (rare) language, manner of speech
- opening, hole
- bodily orifice, opening of the human body in general, including eyes, ears, nostrils, the vulva, and open wounds
- entrance to a building, doorway
- entrance to a land or place in general
- mouth of a river
- water’s edge, waterline
- (especially in compounds) place or thing seen as an opening from one point to another, passage, thoroughfare
- a measure of volume equivalent to 1⁄32 of a hnw or 1⁄320 of a ḥqꜣt (about 15 millilitres); mouthful
- part, piece, fraction
- (mathematics) used as a numerator of 1 in fractions, literally “piece of (the denominator)”.
- 12th Dynasty, Siut Tomb I, 285, published in Griffith, Francis Llewellyn, The inscriptions of Siûṭ and Dêr Rîfeh:
- r(ꜣ) ḫmtw-št sjsjw
- 1⁄360
- 12th Dynasty, Siut Tomb I, 285, published in Griffith, Francis Llewellyn, The inscriptions of Siûṭ and Dêr Rîfeh:
Usage notes
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Inflection
In the sense of ‘mouth’ the plural is rare, as the singular is usually used even in reference to the mouths of multiple people.
Alternative forms
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The senses relating to ‘opening, doorway’ sometimes carry different determinatives:
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The sense ‘water’s edge’ is similarly sometimes found with a different determinative:
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
Possibly cognate to Hebrew אֶל (ʾel, “to, at”), Arabic إِلَى (ʔilā, “to, until, near”).[4]
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /jiɾ/ → /jiʔ/ → /ʔə/ → /ʔə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: er
- (modern Egyptological, US) IPA(key): /ɝ/
Preposition
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- regarding, with respect to, concerning, according to
- in order to, for (the purpose of)
- (with following infinitive) forms the periphrastic prospective of a verb
- (with verbs of motion, of places) to, towards
- (in adverbial sentences, of places, roles, or functions) headed for, destined for, bound for
- (of time) at, in, on
- against, in opposition to
- from, apart from (ablative)
- (after an adjective or adverb, forming the comparative) than, by comparison to
- (generally in sentence-initial form jr) introduces the protasis of a conditional sentence; if, when, as
- (with a verb in the terminative as object) until
Inflection
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
Particle
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enclitic
Usage notes
This usage is distinguished from the preposition by the fact that it occurs as the enclitic second element in a clause instead of at the end of a clause, as is otherwise the case with prepositional phrases.
Alternative forms
See also
References
- “rʾ (lemma ID 92560)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- “r (lemma ID 91900)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- “jr (lemma ID 28170)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 103.6–103.9
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 386.6–388.10, 389.1–392.10
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 145–146
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 65, 71, 87, 118, 170, 179–180, 196, 410–411.
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 429
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 42
- Palma, Helena Lopez (2015) “Egyptian Fractional Numerals: The grammar of Egyptian NPs and statements with fractional number expressions” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 23, page 199
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58
- Sethe, Kurt (1916) Von Zahlen und Zahlworten bei den alten Ägyptern, page 82–83
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 15
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ro/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /r/
Audio (file)
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈerː/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹ/
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Finnish
Etymology
The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) for information on the development of the glyph itself.
Pronunciation
Audio: är, kärrynpyörä, särky, är (file)
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
French
Pronunciation
- (letter name) IPA(key): /ɛʁ/
Fula
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾ/
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Gothic
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈr]
- (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈɛrː]
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Declension
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Possessive forms of r | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | r-em | r-jeim |
2nd person sing. | r-ed | r-jeid |
3rd person sing. | r-je | r-jei |
1st person plural | r-ünk | r-jeink |
2nd person plural | r-etek | r-jeitek |
3rd person plural | r-jük | r-jeik |
See also
Further reading
- r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Ido
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Italian
Kashubian
Etymology
The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) for development of the glyph itself.
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Latvian
Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɾ]
Livonian
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /r/
Letter
r (upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Malay
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Mandarin
References
- Wenlin Pinyin dictionary
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Norwegian
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ærː/, /æɾː/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /r/, /ɾ/, /ʁ/
Audio (file)
Usage notes
- /ʁ/ is the pronunciation of r usually found in southern and southeastern dialects of Norway. Bergen has the dialect best known for this sound. Said to come from Danish and/or German, originally from French.
- Dialects with /ʁ/ do not have retroflex consonants.
Nupe
Pronunciation
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɾ/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Polish
Etymology
The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) for development of the glyph itself.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r/
Letter
r (upper case R, lower case)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Audio (BR) (file)
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Romani
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) International Standard: (À à, Ä ä, Ǎ ǎ), Ć ć, Ćh ćh, (È è, Ë ë, Ě ě), (Ì ì, Ï ï, Ǐ ǐ), (Ò ò, Ö ö, Ǒ ǒ), Rr rr, Ś ś, (Ù ù, Ü ü, Ǔ ǔ), Ź ź, Ʒ ʒ, Q q, Ç ç, ϴ θ. Pan-Vlax: Č č, Čh čh, Dž dž, (Dź dź), Ř ř, Š š, (Ś ś), Ž ž, (Ź ź).
References
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “R, r”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Scottish Gaelic
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Silesian
Etymology
The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) for development of the glyph itself.
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Skolt Sami
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /r/
Letter
r (upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (phoneme) /ɾ/, /r/
- IPA(key): (letter name) /ˈere/ [ˈe.re]
- Rhymes: -ere
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
Derived terms
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Tagalog
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Each pronunciation has a different source:
- Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
- Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da/ra).
- Abecedario pronunciation is from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: R
- (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ʔaɾ/, [ʔɐɾ]
- (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA(key): /ɾa/, [ɾɐ]
- (letter name, Abecedario): IPA(key): /ˈʔeɾe/, [ˈʔɛ.ɾɛ]
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɾ/, [ɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ, -a, -eɾe
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R, Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇ᜔)
- The twentieth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called ar and written in the Latin script.
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R, Baybayin spelling ᜇ)
- The fifteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called ra and written in the Latin script.
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜒ)
- (historical) The twenty-first letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called ere and written in the Latin script.
Further reading
- “r”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Turkish
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɾ/
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Turkmen
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /r/
Letter
r (upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Yoruba
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- As used in Benin: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Zulu
Letter
r (lower case, upper case R)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)