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Saw it in a jisho but I have no idea what it means.
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What does 動ラ下二 means? And how to pronounce it?
動{どう}ラ下二{しもに}, an abbreviation of 動詞{どうし}、ラ行{ぎょう}下二段{しもにだん}活用{かつよう}. That is,
a Classical Japanese (文語{ぶんこ}) verb of the “lower bigrade” conjugation, with a
root ending in _-r_.

To really understand what this means you need to spend some time learning
Classical Japanese grammar. Many dictionaries have an appendix or something
explaining the concepts, and it should be easy to find 文語 guides online. In
English, I recommend Wixted’s _A Handbook to Classical Japanese_.

I can’t make a full introduction to the grammar in the space of this answer,
but an example of a verb in this class would be 流{なが}る _nagaru_ ; it inflects
as 流れ、流れ、流る、流るる、流るれ、流れよ. It’s of course the ancestor of modern _nagareru_.

Notice how in _kana_ notation the inflections start with one of two different
_kana_ , る and れ. Recall that, in the traditional _gojūonzu_ table of _kana_
characters, symbols with an _-e_ vowel are in the lower half. So the
inflections for this verb, as written in _kana_ , use two lines from the lower
side of the _r-_ column. That’s what is meant by ラ行 (“ _ra_ column”) 下二段 (“two
lines, lower”). An adapted translation could be “verb with a root ending in
_-r_ , whose inflections use the vowels _-u-_ and _-e-_ ”. (A verb which uses
an _-i_ vowel to inflect, like 落{お}つ – 落ち、落ち、落つ、落つる、落つれ、落ちよ – would be a
上二段{かみにだん}, “upper bigrade” verb).
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