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
- Ra (film), a 1972 documentary film about these expeditions
- Alternate spelling of Roua, a Polynesian deity
- Tama-nui-te-rā, the coincidentally named Maori Sun-god
- Rå, a creature in Scandinavian mythology
- Ra, a group of entities channeled by Carla Rueckert
- Short for the IRA
- Sun Ra (1914-1993), an American jazz musician and philosopher
Medical
Arts and entertainment
- Ra (American band), an American rock band
- Ra (Norwegian band), 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), 1988
- Ra (board game), a board game for two to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and based on ancient Egyptian culture
- Ra (film), 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), an acronym American punk/hardcore band Rise Against
Places
Education
Letters from several alphabets can be called ra or rHA
- ﺭ, rāʾ, 10th letter of Arabic alphabet, see Resh
- ረ, ራ — Amharic letters that can be read as variations of ra, also related to Semitic Resh
- Ռ, ṙa, the 28th letter in Armenian alphabet
- र, ड़', ढ़, र्ह, Devanagari letters which can be called ra, ṛa or rha
- Ra (kana), 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 language cyrillic script
Designations
- Ra, Radium in the periodic table
- A half-step below Re on the solfège musical scale
- Rayleigh number, in physics
- SJ Ra, a Swedish locomotive
- , the arithmetic average of absolute values of the deviation from the mean of a surface profile, a popular parameter of roughness
- .ra, the extension for RealAudio files
See also