Raðar

Raðar is an Icelandic word with two primary uses: as a plural noun and as a present-tense verb form. As a noun, it is the plural of röð, meaning a row, line, or sequence. As a verb, raðar is the third-person or second-person singular present form of raða, meaning to arrange, to order, or to put in sequence.

In its noun sense, raðir denotes multiple lines, rows, or sequences. It is common in everyday language to speak of seating arrangements, queues, or data structures in terms of raðir. For example, a theater might have seating organized in raðir, and a spreadsheet can be described as containing many raðir. The phrase töfluna hefur margar raðir refers to a table with many rows; röð or röð- forms are used for individual lines, while raðir refers to the plural.

As a verb, raða means to arrange, organize, or classify. The form raðar appears in phrases such as hún raðar bókunum (she arranges the bookings) and þeir raða listanum eftir stigum (they organize the list by steps). It is used in both everyday and formal contexts to describe ordering items, people, or events.

Etymology traces röð to Old Norse röð, with cognates in other Nordic languages. In modern Icelandic, röð and raða share the same semantic field of order and sequence, and raðir serves as the plural noun form for multiple lines or sequences. See also röð, raða, and dálkur for related concepts of rows, ordering, and columns.