raven

Raven is leven.

raven (infinitive)
raven (gerund neuter)
rave (first-person present singular)
ravede (first-person past singular)
ravet (present second-person singular)
rave (present second-person singular)
ravede (past second-person singular)
ravet (formal present second-person singular)
ravede (formal past second-person singular)
ravet (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
ravet (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
ravede (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
ravede (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
ravet (present singular third-person)
ravede (past singular third-person)
raven (plural present)
raveden (past plural)
rave (archaic present singular subjunctive)
ravede (archaic past singular subjunctive)
raven (archaic plural present subjunctive)
raveden (archaic past plural subjunctive)
rave (imperative present singular)
ravet (archaic imperative plural present)
ravend (participle present)
geraved (participle past)

Borrowed from English rave. By surface analysis, rave + -en.


raven

nl-noun

raven m (plural ravens or ravenen, diminutive raventje n)

ravens (plural)
ravenen (plural)
raventje (diminutive neuter)

Original form of raaf which represents a rebracketing of this form and which existed alongside it since (late) Middle Dutch. The singular raven persisted in some dialects until at least the 18th century.


raven

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


raven

Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

(countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven (Corvus corax).

raven:

A lone man walks the shores of Nantucket; his noble form is slightly bent, and with the raven of his hair is blended the faintest tinge of gray, though he is evidently a man to whom the meridian of life is yet far in the distance […]

1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:

en-noun

raven (countable and uncountable, plural ravens)

From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to croak, crow”).


raven

raven curls; raven darkness

She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.


raven

Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

плячкосване

prey; plunder; food obtained by violence

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-raven (not bird).wav

From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).

ravin (alternative)
ravine (alternative)


raven

(transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.

And the hound Time, when all the Worlds and cities are swept away whereon he used to raven, having no more to devour, shall suddenly die.

1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 93:

I refer to the danger of keeping a dog of this nature and disposition in a bedroom, where it can spring out ravening on anyone who enters.

1938, P.G. Woodhouse, The Code of the Woosters:

(transitive) To devour with great eagerness.

The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.

[…] because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or else they wil doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes […]

1587, Leonard Mascall, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof”, in The First Booke of Cattell, London:

They passed along towards the great hall-door, where the winds howled and ravened for their prey […]

1852, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Story”, in The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales:

The Greek were-wolf is closely related to the vampire. The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.

1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, chapter 8, in The Book of Were-Wolves, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 114:

On one side the great temple where you can gather the good harvest—on the other a dirty little scandal that you’ve nosed out to fling to paper scavengers who feed it to their readin’ millions ravening for pornographic dirt.

1931, James B. Fagan, The Improper Duchess, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1932, act 3, page 237:

(intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).

en-verb

raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)

ravens (present singular third-person)
ravening (participle present)
ravened (participle past)
ravened (past)
ravin (alternative)
ravine (alternative)


raven

Es wird geravt im Funkhaus Nalepastraße. „Kepler 452b“ klingt danach, Lichtjahre von der Realität entfernt zu sein. Motto des Techno-Performance-Festivals: „nonprofit und nomadisch“, Levitation pur.

2018 March 15, Julian Weber, “Kepler 452b-Rave”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 26:

de-verb

raven (weak, third-person singular present ravt, past tense ravte, past participle geravt, auxiliary haben)

ravt (present singular third-person)
ravte (past)
geravt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
raven (infinitive)
ravend (participle present)
geravt (participle past)
rave (first-person indicative present singular)
raven (first-person indicative plural present)
rave (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
raven (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ravst (indicative present second-person singular)
ravt (indicative plural present second-person)
ravest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ravet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ravt (indicative present singular third-person)
raven (indicative plural present third-person)
rave (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
raven (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
ravte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
ravten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ravte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ravten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ravtest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ravtet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
ravtest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ravtet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ravte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ravten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ravte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
ravten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
rav (imperative second-person singular)
rave (imperative second-person singular)
ravt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe geravt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben geravt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe geravt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben geravt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast geravt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt geravt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest geravt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet geravt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat geravt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben geravt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe geravt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben geravt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte geravt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten geravt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte geravt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten geravt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest geravt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet geravt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest geravt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet geravt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte geravt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten geravt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte geravt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten geravt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
raven werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde raven (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden raven (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest raven (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet raven (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde raven (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden raven (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde raven (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden raven (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde raven (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden raven (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst raven (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet raven (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest raven (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet raven (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird raven (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden raven (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde raven (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden raven (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
geravt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde geravt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden geravt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest geravt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet geravt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde geravt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden geravt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde geravt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden geravt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde geravt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden geravt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst geravt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet geravt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest geravt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet geravt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird geravt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden geravt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde geravt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden geravt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

From Rave + -en, possibly after English (to) rave.


raven

rāven (canonical masculine)
rāvene (alternative)
rāve (alternative)

desctree

Dutch: raaf, (all obsolete) raef, raven, raaven, raeven
Afrikaans: raaf
→ Sranan Tongo: rafru

Limburgish: raof

From Old Dutch ravan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn.


raven

sl-adj

rávən (comparative rávnejši, superlative nȁjrávnejši)

rávən (canonical)
rávnejši (comparative)
nȁjrávnejši (superlative)
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ráven (masculine nominative singular)
rávni (masculine nominative singular)
rávna (feminine nominative singular)
rávno (neuter nominative singular)
rávnega (genitive masculine singular)
rávne (feminine genitive singular)
rávnega (genitive neuter singular)
rávnemu (dative masculine singular)
rávni (dative feminine singular)
rávnemu (dative neuter singular)
nominativeⁱⁿᵃⁿ or (accusative masculine singular)
genitive (accusative masculine singular)
rávno (accusative feminine singular)
rávno (accusative neuter singular)
rávnem (locative masculine singular)
rávni (feminine locative singular)
rávnem (locative neuter singular)
rávnim (instrumental masculine singular)
rávno (feminine instrumental singular)
rávnim (instrumental neuter singular)
rávna (dual masculine nominative)
rávni (dual feminine nominative)
rávni (dual neuter nominative)
rávnih (dual genitive masculine)
rávnih (dual feminine genitive)
rávnih (dual genitive neuter)
rávnima (dative dual masculine)
rávnima (dative dual feminine)
rávnima (dative dual neuter)
rávna (accusative dual masculine)
rávni (accusative dual feminine)
rávni (accusative dual neuter)
rávnih (dual locative masculine)
rávnih (dual feminine locative)
rávnih (dual locative neuter)
rávnima (dual instrumental masculine)
rávnima (dual feminine instrumental)
rávnima (dual instrumental neuter)
rávni (masculine nominative plural)
rávne (feminine nominative plural)
rávna (neuter nominative plural)
rávnih (genitive masculine plural)
rávnih (feminine genitive plural)
rávnih (genitive neuter plural)
rávnim (dative masculine plural)
rávnim (dative feminine plural)
rávnim (dative neuter plural)
rávne (accusative masculine plural)
rávne (accusative feminine plural)
rávna (accusative neuter plural)
rávnih (locative masculine plural)
rávnih (feminine locative plural)
rávnih (locative neuter plural)
rávnimi (instrumental masculine plural)
rávnimi (feminine instrumental plural)
rávnimi (instrumental neuter plural)
ravȃn (alternative)