Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.

• (British) IPA: /ɹɑːθ/
• (America) IPA: /ɹæθ/

rath (plural raths)

1. (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
   • 1907, James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern:

     There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.

• Rathmines

• Russian: форт

From Hindi रथ, from Sanskrit रथ.

rath (plural raths)

1. A Burmese carriage of state.

rath

1. Alternative form of rathe.

Borrowed from German Rath.

1. Surname.