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▪ I. ‖ raad, n.1 S. Afr.|raːt|
[Du., = council; freq. as shortening of Heemrad, Volksraad, etc.]
A council, an assembly; spec. (usu. with capital initial) the legislative assembly of one of the former Boer republics (Hist.).
1850R. Gray Jrnl. 8 May in Jrnl. Bishop's Visitation Tour in 1850 (1851) 25 These men have formed themselves into a Republic, and have their ‘Raad’ (Council). 1856C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami v. 57 He laid his complaint before the chief of the tribe; and a ‘raad’, or counsel, was held. 1873F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds xii. 153 The gentlemen..obtained their grant under solemn seal and bond of the Transvaal Parliament, or raad. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 635/2 The tribal council has become a ‘raad’ consisting of the chief, ex-officio, and of members elected at the mass meeting. 1940F. B. Young City of Gold 261 So the Raad sat..voting Burgers down. 1963S. Cloete Rags of Glory vi. 53 Field Kornet Adriaan de la Rey, the member of the Raad who had been against the war. 1973Hansard S. Afr. 8 Feb. 297 The Minister of Labour..says that in no circumstances will he sit in the same ‘raad’ as a non-white.
▪ II. raad, n.2|rəˈɑːd, rɑːd|
[Arabic.]
The electric cat-fish, Malapterurus electricus, belonging to the family Malapteruridæ, found in the Nile and other rivers of central and western tropical Africa, and distinguished by electric cells in the fatty tissue just beneath the skin.
In quot. 1878 = torpedo n. 1 a.
1869A. Günther in J. & B. H. Petherick Trav. Cent. Afr. II. 240 (Raad or Raasch.) The electric Silurus is spread over the whole of tropical Africa. 1878Encycl. Brit. VIII. 8/2 The Arabians had long before given this fish [sc. the torpedo] the name of raad or lightning. 1931J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes viii. 149 This species is used by the Arabs for food, and they refer to it as the Raad or Thunder-fish. 1957E. Le Danois Fishes of World iv. 130 The electric cat-fish.., the raad or thunder-fish, lives in African rivers.
▪ III. raad
var. rad a.2 Obs. |