Ra (disambiguation)
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Ra
is the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt.
Ra may also refer to:
Letters from several alphabets can be called ra or rHA
Ra
Ra is the ancient Egyptian sun god. By the Fifth Dynasty he had become a major deity in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the mid-day sun...
is the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt.
Ra may also refer to:
Names and titles
- Rā, a MāoriMaori languageMāori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...
word for the Sun - Ra I and Ra II, reed boats used by Thor Heyerdahl’s transatlantic expeditions named after Ra
- Ra (film)Ra (film)Ra is a 1972 documentary film directed by Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl about the expeditions organised by Thor Heyerdahl in 1969 and 1970 in attempt to cross Atlantic on papyrus boats...
, a 1972 documentary film about these expeditions
- Ra (film)
- Alternate spelling of RouaRouaIn Polynesian mythology , Roua , the sun god, is the father of Fati and all the stars by Taonoui....
, a Polynesian deity - Tama-nui-te-rāTama-nui-te-raIn Māori mythology, Tama-nui-te-rā is the personification of the Sun.Māui decided that the days were too short and caught Tamanui-te-rā with a snare, then beat him to make him travel more slowly across the sky. In some legends Tama-nui-te-rā is the husband of Ārohirohi, goddess of mirages...
, the coincidentally named Maori Sun-god - RåRåIn Scandinavian folklore, a rå is a keeper or warden of a particular location or landform. The different species of rå are sometimes distinguished according to the different spheres of nature with which they were connected, such as skogsrå or huldra , sjörå or havsrå , and bergsrå .-See...
, a creature in Scandinavian mythology - Ra, a group of entities channeled by Carla Rueckert
- Short for the IRAProvisional Irish Republican ArmyThe Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
- Sun RaSun RaSun Ra was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama...
(1914-1993), an American jazz musician and philosopher
Medical
- Rheumatoid arthritisRheumatoid arthritisRheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks synovial joints. The process produces an inflammatory response of the synovium secondary to hyperplasia of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development...
, a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that attacks synovial joints
Arts and entertainment
- Ra (American band), an American rock band
- Ra (Norwegian band)Ra (Norwegian band)Ra are Christer Borge-Lunde, Lars W. Lind, a goa trance project.Ra was first founded in 1994 by Christer Borge-Lunde and Lars W.Lind. In 1998 Chris and Lars went their separate ways and Christer Borge-Lunde continued Ra primarily as a solo project....
, a Norwegian psytrance act - Ra (Stargate), a character from the film Stargate, based on the Egyptian god
- Ra (artist), the pseudonym of Raoul Sinier, a french digital painter and electronic musician
- Ra (Utopia album)
- Ra (Eloy album)Ra (Eloy album)Ra is the fourteenth album by the German progressive rock band Eloy. Released in 1988, it was the first album to be released after a four year absence.-Track listing:All songs written by Eloy except where indicated....
, 1988 - Ra (board game)Ra (board game)Ra is a board game for two to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and themed around Ra, the sun-god of Heliopolis in ancient Egyptian culture....
, a board game for two to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and based on ancient Egyptian culture - Ra (film)Ra (film)Ra is a 1972 documentary film directed by Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl about the expeditions organised by Thor Heyerdahl in 1969 and 1970 in attempt to cross Atlantic on papyrus boats...
, a 1972 documentary - The Winged Dragon of Ra, from the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh franchise
- Ra Cailum class battleship, a class of spaceships in the Gundam anime universe
- RA (Band)Rise AgainstRise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. The band currently consists of Tim McIlrath , Zach Blair , Joe Principe and Brandon Barnes .Rise Against spent its first five years signed to the independent record label Fat Wreck Chords, on which it...
, an acronym American punk/hardcore band Rise Against
Places
- Ra, Fiji, a province of Fiji
- Ra (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji)Ra (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji)Ra Fijian Provincial Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians....
- Ra (Open Constituency, Fiji)Ra (Open Constituency, Fiji)Ra Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage . Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006...
- Ra (island)Ra (island)Ra is a small coral islet of , located in the Banks group of northern Vanuatu. The same name also refers to the single village which is situated within this islet....
(or Rah), a small island of Vanuatu
Education
- Resource AcademiaResource AcademiaResource Academia , founded in 2003, is a private fee-paying academic institution located at Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, as part of the W-block compound. Resource Academia provides preschool education, primary education, secondary education and preparation for General Certificate of Education...
, LahoreLahoreLahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...
, PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
Letters from several alphabets can be called ra or rHA
RHA
RHA is an acronym that may refer to:* Regional Health Authority* Religious Heritage of America* Rental Housing Association of Puget Sound* Residence Hall Association...
- ﺭ, rāʾ, 10th letter of Arabic alphabetArabic alphabetThe Arabic alphabet or Arabic abjad is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right to left, in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters. Because letters usually stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.-Consonants:The Arabic alphabet has...
, see Resh - ረ, ራ — Amharic letters that can be read as variations of ra, also related to SemiticSemiticIn linguistics and ethnology, Semitic was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages...
ReshReshResh is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually or , but also or in Hebrew.... - Ռ, ṙa, the 28th letter in Armenian alphabetArmenian alphabetThe Armenian alphabet is an alphabet that has been used to write the Armenian language since the year 405 or 406. It was devised by Saint Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader, and contained originally 36 letters. Two more letters, օ and ֆ, were added in the Middle Ages...
- र, ड़', ढ़, र्ह, DevanagariDevanagariDevanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...
letters which can be called ra, ṛa or rha - Ra (kana)Ra (kana)ら, in hiragana, or ラ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both versions are written with two strokes and have origins in the character 良; both characters represent In the Ainu language, Japanese linguists developed a small katakana ㇻ that is used to represent...
, the Japanese kana ら and ラ - ர, ற are articulated as ra, tra or dra depending on the consonant complex.
- Ԗ, the 23rd letter rha («ра») in the older (1924−1927) Moksha languageMoksha languageThe Moksha language is a member of the Finno-Volgaic subdivision of the Uralic languages with about 500,000 native speakers. Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia....
cyrillic alphabetCyrillic alphabetThe Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
Designations
- Ra, RadiumRadiumRadium is a chemical element with atomic number 88, represented by the symbol Ra. Radium is an almost pure-white alkaline earth metal, but it readily oxidizes on exposure to air, becoming black in color. All isotopes of radium are highly radioactive, with the most stable isotope being radium-226,...
in the periodic table - A half-step below Re on the solfègeSolfegeIn music, solfège is a pedagogical solmization technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfège syllable...
musical scale - Rayleigh numberRayleigh numberIn fluid mechanics, the Rayleigh number for a fluid is a dimensionless number associated with buoyancy driven flow...
, in physics - SJ RaSJ RaThe SJ Class Ra is an electric locomotive operated by Statens Järnvägar of Sweden. Ten units were built by ASEA, two in 1955 and eight in 1961. Ra was used on express trains until the 1990s.-History:...
, a Swedish locomotive -
, the arithmetic average of absolute values of the deviation from the mean of a surface profile, a popular parameter of roughnessRoughnessSurface roughness, often shortened to roughness, is a measure of the texture of a surface. It is quantified by the vertical deviations of a real surface from its ideal form. If these deviations are large, the surface is rough; if they are small the surface is smooth... - .ra, the extension for RealAudioRealAudioRealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is...
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See also
- RA (disambiguation)Ra (disambiguation)Ra is the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt.Ra may also refer to:- Names and titles :* Rā, a Māori word for the Sun* Ra I and Ra II, reed boats used by Thor Heyerdahl’s transatlantic expeditions named after Ra...
- RAH (disambiguation)
- RHA (disambiguation)
- RAS (disambiguation)
- Ras (disambiguation)