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单词 rann
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rannn.

Brit. /ran/, U.S. /ræn/, Irish English /rɑn/, /rɔːn/
Forms: 1700s– rann, 1800s– raun.
Origin: A borrowing from Irish. Etymon: Irish rann.
Etymology: < Irish rann (Early Irish rann ), of uncertain origin; perhaps originally a spec. use of Early Irish rann part, partition (although this has a different gender), cognate with Welsh rhan and perhaps ultimately < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin pars part n.1The form raun reflects the pronunciation of the Irish etymon.
Irish English.
A piece of Irish verse; a stanza, a quatrain.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > passage
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1772 S. O'Halloran Introd. Study Hist. Ireland ii. iv. 145 He quotes this rann or verse.
1833 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry 2nd Ser. I. 36 The ranns, an' prayers, an' holy charms.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 388 [To] chant aloud the exulting rann of jubilee.
1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen 135 Who sang to sweeten Ireland's wrong, Ballad and story, rann and song.
1935 S. MacManus Bold Blades of Donegal xviii. 169 The Divil posed him with old pagan ranns, tryin' for to trip him... He drew Colm saying rann for rann with him.
1994 Irish Times 15 Feb. (Arts section) 10 In this new play, Woods uses the traditional story telling form of the rann.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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