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.

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

• 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

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.

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 [idiomatic]

      to pull a knife / knives

2. to pull (tell; give)

   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

      Nisse played [pulled] a song on the accordion [somewhat colloquial-sounding]

3. (in "dra en slutsats") to draw (a conclusion), to conclude (compare "komma fram till" and "sluta sig till")

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

   With that information, one can conclude [draw the conclusion] that the anteater must be in the blue box

4. (in "dra lärdom") to draw (lessons) (learn from something)

   dra lärdom av det inträffade

   draw lessons from the incident

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

   Hur mycket drar bilen per mil? / Vad drar bilen per mil?

   How much [gas] does the car consume [draw] per mile [ten kilometers]?

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

   dra ett streck över något

   draw a line under something [idiomatically with "over" in Swedish]

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

   Han drog på svaret

   He hesitated / paused before answering

   Jag borde göra det nu, men jag drar mig

   I should do it now, but I'm delaying [find it difficult, etc.]

9. (often with a particle like fram (“forth”)) to move (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. (with ifrån) to pull away (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)

    Synonyms: sticka, dunsta, gitta

    Ska vi dra ner på stan?

    Wanna go downtown?

    Vi drog hem till Nisse

    We went to Nisse's place

    Vi drar!

    Let's get out of here!

11. (idiomatic, in "gå och dra") to idle (do nothing (productive))

    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. (with med (“with”)) to be burdened (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 8), 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): /dɾɔː/
• Homophone: draugh

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?

• 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