dra

dra

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Dravidian languages.

From Dutch dragen.

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dra (present dra, present participle draende, past participle gedra)

1. to carry
2. to wear

   Fjodor is die eerste Russiese tsaar wat Westerse klere dra.

   Fjodor is the first Russian tsar that wears western clothes.

• drâ — Gheg

From Proto-Albanian *drag-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”), likely of non-Indo-European origin.^[1][2] Alternatively from Dacian *draga.^[3]

dra m (plural dra, definite drau, definite plural dratë)

1. sediment, dregs
2. smudged butter
3. sweepings, dirt

• ndrag

• “dra”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[3], 1980

• IPA^(key): [ˈdra]

dra

1. masculine singular present transgressive of dřít

• dera

• (obsolete) draey

From Middle Dutch drade, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. cognates include Old High German drāto (“quickly, suddenly, violently, intensely”) and its adjectival counterpart drāti; ultimately all derive from the same root to which draaien (“to turn”) (English throw, German drehen (“to turn”)) belongs.

• IPA^(key): /draː/

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dra

1. (archaic) soon

Inherited from Proto-Oceanic *draʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *daʀaq.

dra

1. blood
2. sap (of plant)

dra

1. to bleed

   E dra tiko na ucuna.

   His/her nose is bleeding.

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “dra”, in Fijian–English Dictionary: with notes on Fijian culture and natural history, Suva, Fiji: R. Gatty, →ISBN, page 70

From French drap (“sheet”).

• IPA^(key): /dɣa/

dra

1. bedsheet

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[4], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 55

Inherited from Sanskrit भ्रातृ॑ (bhrā́tṛ), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

dra

1. brother

• Liljegren, Henrik (2013), “Notes on Kalkoti: A Shina Language with Strong Kohistani Influences”, in Linguistic Discovery‎^[5], volume 11, number 1, →DOI

From de +‎ la.

• (Old Lombard) IPA^(key): [ˈdɾa]

dra

1. (Old Lombard) of the
2. (Old Lombard) from the

From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.

dra (imperative dra, present tense drar, passive dras, simple past dro or drog, past participle dratt or dradd, present participle dragende)

1. to draw; pull; drag
2. to leave; depart; go

   dra på ferie - to go on holiday

3. (colloquial) of a man, to masturbate

• drage (obsolete in Bokmål, but used in Nynorsk and Danish)

• “dra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• draga, drage (long forms).

From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /drɑː/

dra (present tense dreg or drar, simple past drog, supine drege or dratt or dradd, past participle dregen or dradd, present participle dragande, imperative dra)

1. (transitive) to pull; drag, draw
2. (intransitive) to leave; depart; go

   å dra på ferie

   to go on holiday

• “dra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /dɔkˈtɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra

dra m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of dr

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *da (“locative case marker”).

dra

1. construction marker for common nouns, oblique

   a puyuma mekan dra tinalrek.

   Puyuma eat rice.

• Josiane Cauquelin (2015), Nanwang Puyuma-English Dictionary (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 56), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN, page 132

• draga (dated)

Apocopic form of draga, from Old Swedish dragha, from Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-. In some senses, from Middle Low German dragen (“carry”) (compare German tragen).

• IPA^(key): /drɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

dra (present drar, preterite drog, supine dragit, imperative dra)

1. to pull (on something, possibly causing it to move)

   Hästen drar vagnen. ― The horse pulls the cart.

   dra ut en tand ― pull out a tooth

   dra ut en utdragbar skärbräda ― pull out a pull-out cutting board

   dra något över golvet ― pull something across the floor [compare släpa]

   Han drog i repet ― He pulled the rope [i adds a nuance of "pulled on," rather than "pulled along the ground" or the like]

   1. to tow (a trailer or the like – compare bogsera)

      Bilen drar släpet. ― The car tows the trailer.

   2. to draw (a weapon, from a sheath, holster, or the like)

      Riddaren drog sitt svärd. ― The knight drew his sword.

      med dragna pistoler ― with guns drawn

      att dra kniv ― to pull a knife / knives

2. (figuratively) to pull (give; tell)

   Kan du dra siffrorna igen? ― Can you pull the numbers again?

   1. to tell (a short story, joke, or the like)

      Dra den där fräckisen igen som du drog igår kväll.

      Tell that dirty joke again that you told last night.

   2. to play

      Nisse drog en låt på dragspelet (somewhat colloquial)

      Nisse played a song on the accordion

3. to draw (a conclusion, lesson), to conclude

   Synonyms: komma fram till, sluta sig till

   dra en slutsats ― to draw a conclusion

   dra lärdom (av) ― to learn something (from)

   Med den informationen kan man dra slutsatsen att myrsloken måste vara i den blå lådan.

   With that information, one can conclude that the anteater must be in the blue box.

   dra lärdom av det inträffade ― to draw lessons from the incident

4. to consume (some resource needed on a continuous basis)

   Hur mycket drar bilen per mil?

   How much [petrol] does the car consume per [Scandinavian] mile?

5. to draw (a line, curve, or the like – compare rita)

   dra ett streck över något (idiomatic) ― draw a line under something

6. to hold back on (something (due to hesitancy))

   Han drog på svaret. ― He hesitated before answering.

   Jag borde göra det nu, men jag drar mig.

   I should do it now, but I'm delaying (finding it difficult, etc.).

8. to move [with fram ‘forth’, in ‘in’, etc.] (often of something large, like a storm or an army – see also rycka)

   Stormen drog fram över ön. ― The storm swept across the island.

   Stormen drog in över ön. ― The storm moved in over the island.

   1. to pull away [with ifrån ‘from’] (increase one's lead (in a (speed) competition))

      Den franska föraren börjar dra ifrån i ledningen.

      The French driver is starting to pull away in the lead.

10. (colloquial) to go (somewhere), to leave (for some other place), (sometimes a good match for tone) to head off, to go off (to somewhere, or leave)

    Synonyms: sticka, (leave) dunsta, (leave) gitta

    • 1998, Jan Nordlund, Johan Lagerlöf, Jens Bergmark, Daniel Bäckström, Arijan Selami, Marko Lehtosalo, Stefan Enberg, “Vi drar till fjällen [We head off to the mountains]”‎^[6]performed by Markoolio [portmanteau of his first name Marko and the stage name of American rapper Coolio]; Elise Myrberg; Jemma Myrberg:

      Vi drar till fjällen. Fest hela kvällen. Ute och glider med snowboard och skidor. Vi drar till fjällen. Fest hela kvällen. Se upp i backen för finska attacken.

      We head off to the mountains [or "We're headin' for the mountains" or something colloquial like that]. Party [noun] all night [the whole evening]. Out sliding with snowboard and skis. We head off to the mountains. Party all night. Watch out on the slopes [slope] for the Finnish attack.

    Ska vi dra ner på stan? ― Wanna go downtown?

    Vi drog hem till Nisse. ― We went over to Nisse's place. ["over" for a more colloquial tone]

    Vi drar! ― Let's get out of here!

    Vi ska dra ― We're gonna head out

    dra till Italien på semester / dra på semester till Italien

    head off to Italy on vacation / head off on vacation to Italy [fairly good match for tone]

    [Jag] ska dra till jobbet om tio minuter

    I'm off / gonna head off to work in ten minutes

    Han bara drog utan att säga vart han skulle. Skum snubbe.

    He just went off without saying [to] where [whither] he was going. Strange guy. [See ska for why there is åka (“go [with a conveyance]”), gå (“walk”), or the like]

11. (idiomatic) to idle (do nothing (productive))

    gå och dra ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

    De bara går och drar hela dagarna. ― They're just idling all day.

12. to run (install (cables, pipes, etc.))

    dra kabel i taket ― run cable in the ceiling

13. to be burdened [with med ‘with’]

    Hon drogs med flera åkommor. ― She was burdened with several ailments.

14. to steep (be steeped in liquid in order to extract ("pull") flavor compounds, etc.)

    Låt teet dra i fyra minuter. ― Let the tea steep for four minutes.

Dra and rycka (“yank, pull”) have some overlap with how pull is sometimes used for more general movement in English in (sense 7), though it's not perfect. You can't "dra/rycka" ("pull/yank") into a driveway, for example.

• släpa

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

• dar, rad

From Middle English drawen, from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan.

• IPA^(key): /draː/

dra

1. to draw
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 59:

     Note will wee dra aaght to-die?

     I don't know will we draw any to-day?

• drawer

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36