A word appearing in the Declension of Nouns (DN) glossed “beam of wood” (PE21/27). It had a stem form of ramb- and a longer variant ramba, but in Tolkien’s later writings ramba was “wall”.
Early Quenya
ran
noun. noise
There are more words but they are from Tolkien's earlier conceptional periods. Tolkien likely changed these words as he evolved the aesthetics and completeness of the languages. You may even find languages that Tolkien later rejected. Do not mix words from different time periods unless you are familiar with the phonetic developments.
Qenya
ran
noun. beam of wood
ramba
noun. beam of wood
Middle Primitive Elvish
ran
root. wander, stray
Gnomish
brum
noun. noise
rum
noun. noise
Below: Tolkien's Late Period (1950–1973). These are from Tolkien's late conceptual period — his most settled forms of the languages. Prefer these over the earlier ones above when composing new text.
Westron
ran
masculine name. Ham
ran(u)
noun. village, small group of dwellings on a hill-side
Primitive elvish
ran
root. wander, stray, meander, go on an uncertain course, go aside from a course (commanded or self-chosen); err
This root first appeared as ᴹ√RAN “wander, stray” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. ranya-/N. rhenia- “to stray”, ᴹQ. ránen/N. rhaun “errant”, and ᴹQ. Rana/N. Rhân as names for the Moon (Ety/RAN). These Moon-names also appeared in earlier writings but without clear etymologies (LT1/192; GL/64). Such Moon names continued to appear in later writings, for example: Q. Rána “Wayward” (S/99). The root √RAN itself was mentioned quite frequently in Tolkien’s later writings with glosses like “wander, stray” (PE17/182), “wander, stray, go on uncertain course” (VT42/12) and “err, go aside from a course (commanded or self-chosen)” (PE17/78).
Quenya
ran
noise
ran (ram-) noun "noise" (LT1:259, QL:79)
hlóna
noise
hlóna (1) noun "a noise" (VT48:29, PE17:138). Also hlón.
nornë lintieryanen
he ran as swiftly as he could, (lit.) he ran with his speed
nornë lintië
he ran quickly
Noldorin
rhân
noun. Moon
Sindarin
lhôn
noun. noise, noise; *phone (in linguistics), speech sound
A word for “noise” appearing in a list of roots for sound words from 1959-60, derived from the root √(S)LON (PE17/138).
Neo-Sindarin: In a post on 2024-05-07 from the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), Luinyelle suggested this word could also mean “phone, speech sound”, based on Q. hlonitë “phonetic”. I personally recommend fuller paethlon in cases where a simple lhôn would be ambiguous.
raw
roaring noise
(rush), pl. roe (idh roe);
A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s given as ran (ram-) “noise”, from the early root ᴱ√RAMA (QL/78-79).