Rand

From Afrikaans rand, from English rand; compare English rand.

• Rhymes: -ænd

Rand (plural Rand)

1. Alternative letter-case form of rand (the currency of south Africa)

the Rand

1. (South Africa) The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.

• Randite

Rand

1. A surname.
2. A diminutive of the male given names Randall or Randolph.
   • 2025 September 16, Jacob Sullum, “Brendan Carr and Ted Cruz Don't Think Charlie Kirk's Murder Justifies Speech Restrictions”, in Reason‎^[1]:

     In a Fox Business interview on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) alluded to the distinction between private and government responses to offensive speech, but his comments were ambiguous enough that an uncharitable viewer could easily interpret them as approval of the latter.

3. A number of places, other than in South Africa:
   1. A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1078). ^[1]
   2. A small town in Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
   3. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.
   4. An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
   5. A census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

• Randian
• Randianism
• Randite
• Randroid

• rant

• DNAR, DNRA, Nard, andr-, darn, nard, rDNA, rdna

From rand (“beach”).

Rand (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. a surname

From Middle High German rant, from Old High German rant, from Proto-Germanic *randō, which according to Duden is related to *hramō (“framework”).^[1] Pokorny prefers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”).^[2] Cognate with English rand.

• IPA^(key): /ʁant/
• Rhymes: -ant

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Rand m (strong, genitive Randes or Rands, plural Ränder)

1. edge, brink, rim (outer part of something)
2. ledge, margin

   am Rande ― in the margin

3. skin (layer of solid matter that forms on top of a liquid in a vessel)

   In der Flasche hat sich ein Rand gebildet.

   A skin has formed in the bottle.

• → Kashubian: rańt

• Kante

• “Rand” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rand” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Rand” in Duden online

From Middle High German rant, from Old High German rant, from Proto-Germanic *randō, which according to Duden is related to *hramō (“framework”).^[1] Pokorny prefers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /rant/

Rand m (plural Renner)

1. edge, brink, rim (outer part of something)
2. margin

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Rand”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

• IPA^(key): /ʀɑnt/
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

From Middle High German rant, from Old High German rant, from Proto-Germanic *randō, which according to Duden is related to *hramō (“framework”).^[1] Pokorny prefers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”).^[2]

Rand m (plural Ränner)

1. edge, border
2. margin (e.g. of a page)

• (edge): Bord, Kant

From Middle High German rint, from Old High German rind.

Rand n (plural Ranner, diminutive Rëndchen)

1. a bovine mammal, for example a cow or ox