English - Pronunciation

• enPR: rāʹvən, IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪvən/
• Rhymes: -eɪvən

English - Etymology 1

Wikipedia

Wikispecies From Old English hræfn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz (compare Dutch raaf, German Rabe, Danish ravn), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂- (compare Middle Irish crú, Latin corvus, Lithuanian šárka (“magpie”), Serbo-Croatian svrȁka ‘id.’, Ancient Greek κόραξ (kóraks)), from *ḱer, *ḱor (compare Latin crepare ‘to creak, crack’, Sanskrit kṛ́patē (kṛ́patē)).

Noun

raven (plural ravens)

1. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.

Derived terms

• Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)
• brown-necked raven (Corvus ruficollis)
• Chatham raven (Corvus moriorum)
• Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus)
• common raven (Corvus corax)
• dwarf raven (Corvus edithae)
• fan-tailed raven (Corvus rhipidurus)
• forest raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
• little raven (Corvus mellori)
• New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum)
• northern raven (Corvus corax)
• pied raven
• relict raven (Corvus tasmanicus boreus)
• Somali raven (Corvus edithae)
• Tasmanian raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
• thick-billed raven (Corvus crassirostris)
• western raven (Corvus corax sinuatus)
• white-necked raven (Corvus albicollis)

Translations

Adjective

raven (not comparable)

1. Of the color of the raven; jet-black

   raven curls

   raven darkness

   She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.

Derived terms

Translations

English - Etymology 2

From Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapina (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: răvʹən, IPA^(key): /ˈrævən/
• Rhymes: -ævən

Alternative forms

• ravin, ravine

Noun

raven (plural ravens)

1. Rapine; rapacity.
2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Translations

Verb

raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)

1. (archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
2. To devour with great eagerness.
3. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

   The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.

Related terms

• ravener
• ravening
• ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness

English - References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• “raven” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001). [1]

English - Anagrams

• Verna

Dutch - Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːvən

Dutch - Verb

raven (past singular ravede, past participle geraved)

1. to (hold a) rave, to party wildly

Conjugation

Dutch - Noun

raven

1. Plural form of raaf

Dutch - Anagrams

• ervan, varen

Slovene - Alternative Forms

• raván (archaic)

Slovene - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈràːʋən/
• Tonal orthography: rávən

Slovene - Adjective

ráven (comparative rávnejši, superlative nàjrávnejši)

1. even, level

Declension

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