Raven

Noun

 * 1) A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.

Adjective

 * 1) Of the color of the raven; jet-black
 * raven curls
 * raven darkness
 * She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.

Derived terms

 * raven-black
 * raven-haired
 * raven standard

Noun

 * 1) Rapine; rapacity.
 * 2) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Verb

 * 1)  To obtain or seize by violence.
 * 2) To devour with great eagerness.
 * 3) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
 * 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.

Related terms

 * ravener
 * ravening
 * ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness

Adjectives for Raven
presaging; colored; somber; croaking; ominous.

Verbs for Raven
—attacks; —beaks; —bellows; —bodes; — carries off; —croaks; —destroys; —flits; —kills; —pesters; —plagues; —prates; — preys on; —thieves.

Thesaurus
angry clouds, atramentous, batten, be ravenous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black cat, black clouds, bolt, bolt down, broken mirror, charcoal, coal, coal-black, coaly, cram, crow, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, deep black, depredate, despoil, devour, ebon, ebony, engorge, eye hungrily, feel hungry, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gathering clouds, glut, gluttonize, gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp, gulp down, gut, guttle, guzzle, halcyon bird, have a tapeworm, hunger, hunger for, ink, ink-black, inky, jet, jetty, live to eat, loot, maraud, midnight, night, night-black, night-dark, nigrous, owl, pillage, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, plunder, prey on, raid, rainbow, ransack, ravage, raven-black, ravish, reive, rifle, sable, sack, shooting star, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smoke, smut, soot, spoil, spoliate, starve, storm clouds, stormy petrel, stuff, sweep, tar, tar-black, tarry, thirst, thirst for, thundercloud, thunderhead, wolf, wolf down

Etymology 1
hræfn, from (compare  raaf:,  Rabe:,  ravn), from  (compare  crú 'raven',  corbus: 'crow', corvus: 'raven',  krauklys 'crow',  kruk 'raven',  korṓnē 'crow',  karaţa, karāva 'crow'), from *ḱer, ḱor (compare  crepare: 'to creak, crack',  kraukia: 'it croaks',  kṛpate 'he laments, implores').

Etymology 2
From raviner:, itself from ravine:, from  rapina:, itself from rapere:

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"r{v@n/}}

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: غراب,
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: erroi
 * Belarusian: крумкач
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: bran
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: corb
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:, ,
 * Ewe: akpaviã
 * Faroese:, krunkur, gorpur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: corvat
 * Galician: corvo carnazal
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: gagak besar
 * Irish:, fiach dubh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 渡り鴉 (ワタリガラス, watari-garasu), 大鴉 (オオガラス, oo-garasu)
 * Kannada:
 * Korean: 큰까마귀
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:


 * Ladin: corf
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: krauklis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: Raav’
 * Lower Sorbian: wron, rapak
 * Macedonian: гавран (gavran)
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:, feeagh mooar
 * Marathi: डोमेकाव्ळा (dome-kāvllā)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: còrb
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Irish:, ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: kakarachi, kakarachka
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: corv grond, corv
 * Russian:
 * Sami: gáranas, bulddogas, garjá
 * Sardinian: corbu, crobu
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: krokar, vran (poetically)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Upper Sorbian: rapak
 * Volapük: rab,  hirab,  jirab,  rabül,  hirabül,  jirabül
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:

Adjective

 * Dutch: ravezwart
 * French: noir comme un corbeau
 * German: rabenschwarz


 * Greek: κορακίσιος
 * Italian:

Anagrams

 * Verna

Verb

 * 1) to (hold a) rave, to party wildly

Noun
raven



Anagrams

 * ervan, varen

Adjective
raven


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