raw
Translingual
Etymology
Clipping of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#RAW RawangCategory:Translingual clippings#RAW.
Symbol
rawCategory:Translingual lemmas#RAWCategory:Translingual symbols#RAWCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#RAWCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
See also
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#RAWCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krewh₂-#RAWFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#RAWCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#RAW rawe, raw, rau, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#RAWCategory:English terms derived from Old English#RAW hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#RAWCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#RAW *hrau, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#RAWCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#RAW *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#RAW *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /ɹɔː/Category:English 1-syllable words#RAWCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#RAW
- (US) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /ɹɔ/Category:English 1-syllable words#RAWCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#RAW
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: rä, IPA(key): /ɹɑ/Category:English 1-syllable words#RAWCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#RAW
- Homophones: roar (non-rhotic); rah (cot–caught merger)Category:English terms with homophones#RAW
Adjective

raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)Category:English lemmas#RAWCategory:English adjectives#RAWCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- (cookingCategory:en:Cooking#RAW) (of food) Not cooked. [from 9th c.]
- There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.Category:English terms with usage examples#RAW
- He ate raw beef for dinner.Category:English terms with usage examples#RAW
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.Category:English terms with usage examples#RAW
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. [from 10th c.] (of materials, products, etc.)
- 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
- Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.Category:English terms with quotations#RAW
- raw cane sugarCategory:English terms with collocations#RAW
- raw sewageCategory:English terms with collocations#RAW
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. [from 14th c.]
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’Category:English terms with quotations#RAW
- a raw woundCategory:English terms with collocations#RAW
- New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]
- a raw beginnerCategory:English terms with collocations#RAW
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. [from 16th c.]
- a raw voiceCategory:English terms with collocations#RAW
- (statisticsCategory:en:Statistics#RAW, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis. [from 20th c.]
- 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
- What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
- 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- a raw and gusty dayCategory:English terms with quotations#RAW
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:
- […] I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, […]Category:English terms with quotations#RAW
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428:
- He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.Category:English terms with quotations#RAW
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- raw emotionCategory:English terms with collocations#RAW
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- a raw description of the American political arenaCategory:English terms with usage examples#RAW
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- (slangCategory:English slang#RAW, sexCategory:en:Sex#RAW) Without a condom.
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#RAW) Not covered; bare; bald.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:
- with scull all rawCategory:English terms with quotations#RAW
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:raw
Derived terms
- come the raw prawn
- hit a raw nerve
- in the raw
- Johnny Raw
- nonraw
- on the raw
- raw bar
- rawboned
- raw-boned
- rawbones
- raw data
- raw deal
- raw dog
- raw foodism
- raw foodist
- raw-head and bloody-bones
- rawhide
- rawish
- rawism
- rawist
- raw lobster
- rawly
- raw material
- raw milk
- raw mill
- raw nerve
- rawness
- raw papaya
- raw sewage
- raw sienna
- raw silk
- rawstock
- rawstyle
- raw sugar
- raw water
- red raw
- ree-raw
- semiraw
- touch a raw nerve
Translations
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Adverb
rawCategory:English lemmas#RAWCategory:English adverbs#RAWCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- (slangCategory:English slang#RAW, sexCategory:en:Sex#RAW) Without a condom.
- We did it raw.Category:English terms with usage examples#RAW
- 2020, “What You Know Bout Love”, performed by Pop Smoke:
- You know what I be on, I'm about to go rawCategory:English terms with quotations#RAW
Synonyms
- (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless
Translations
Noun
raw (plural raws)Category:English lemmas#RAWCategory:English nouns#RAWCategory:English countable nouns#RAWCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- 1800, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 22, page 287:
- With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.Category:English terms with quotations#RAW
- 1921, “The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry”, in American Chemical Society, Volume 13, Part 1, page 149:
- Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.Category:English terms with quotations#RAW
- 1939, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924:
- The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.Category:English terms with quotations#RAW
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- 1934, Harold Heslop, Goaf, page 29:
- In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal.Category:English terms with quotations#RAW
- (animeCategory:en:Japanese fiction#RAW fandom slangCategory:English fandom slang#RAW) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- (mangaCategory:en:Japanese fiction#RAW fandom slangCategory:English fandom slang#RAW) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
Translations
Verb
raw (third-person singular simple present raws, present participle rawing, simple past and past participle rawed)Category:English lemmas#RAWCategory:English verbs#RAWCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- (slangCategory:English slang#RAW, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RAW) To sexually penetrate without a condom.
Anagrams
Anguthimri
Adjective
rawCategory:Anguthimri lemmas#RAWCategory:Anguthimri adjectives#RAWCategory:Anguthimri entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- (Mpakwithi) black
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
Maltese
Pronunciation
Verb
rawCategory:Maltese non-lemma forms#RAWCategory:Maltese verb forms#RAWCategory:Maltese entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
rawCategory:Middle English alternative forms#RAWCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- alternative form of rawe (“raw”)
Etymology 2
Noun
rawCategory:Middle English alternative forms#RAWCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- alternative form of rewe (“row”)
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
rāw fCategory:Old English lemmas#RAWCategory:Old English nouns#RAWCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Old English feminine nouns#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- alternative form of rǣw
Declension
Strong ō-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rāw | rāwa, rāwe |
| accusative | rāwe | rāwa, rāwe |
| genitive | rāwe | rāwa |
| dative | rāwe | rāwum |
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Particle
raw (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜏ᜔)Category:Tagalog lemmas#RAWCategory:Tagalog particles#RAWCategory:Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries#RAWCategory:Tagalog terms with Baybayin script#RAWCategory:Tagalog entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- alternative form of daw
- Masaya raw siya.
- They say he is happy.
Usage notes
- When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, daw is used instead.
Welsh
Noun
rawCategory:Welsh non-lemma forms#RAWCategory:Welsh mutated nouns#RAWCategory:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#RAWCategory:Pages with entries#RAWCategory:Pages with 8 entries#RAW
- soft mutation of rhawCategory:Welsh soft-mutation forms#RAW
