Rah

• Rahe, Raa (latter archaic)

In the nautical sense (17th c.) from Middle Low German râ, raa, from Proto-Germanic *rahō, *raihô.

The spellings in -h, -he may have been influenced by dialectal continuations of cognate Middle High German rahe (“pole, bar”), from Old High German raha; though the insertion of -h- in hiatus or at the end of a vocalic stem is also a general practice in German orthography. Further cognate with Dutch ra, Old Norse rá.

• IPA^(key): /raː/, [ʁaː]

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• Homophone: rar (many speakers)

Rah f (genitive Rah, plural Rahen)

1. (nautical) yard (horizontal spar on the mast of a sailing ship)

• Querstange

• Rahsegel

• “Rah” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rah” in Duden online