rani

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hindustani رانی (rānī) / रानी (rānī), from Sanskrit राज्ञी (rā́jñī, queen, princess). Doublet of Regina.

Pronunciation

Noun

rani (plural ranis)

  1. The wife of a rajah.
  2. A Hindu princess or female ruler in India.

Translations

Anagrams

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ra‧ni
  • IPA(key): /ɾaˈni/

Verb

raní

  1. to go near; to get close; to be adjacent
    Antonym: rayo

Derived terms

Icelandic

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Etymology

From Old Norse rani.

Pronunciation

Noun

rani m (genitive singular rana, nominative plural ranar)

  1. (anatomy) proboscis
    1. trunk (of an elephant)
    2. snout (of other animals)
    Synonym: trjóna

Declension

Ido

Pronunciation

Noun

rani

  1. plural of rano

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay rani, from Prakrit 𑀭𑀸𑀡𑀻 (rāṇī), from Sanskrit राज्ञी (rājñī, queen, princess), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hrā́ȷ́niH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrā́ȷ́niH, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵnih₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ra‧ni

Noun

rani (plural rani-rani)

  1. queen:
    1. queen regnant: female monarch
      Synonym: ratu
    2. queen consort: wife of a king
      Synonyms: permaisuri, ratu

Further reading

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Hindi रानी (rānī).

Pronunciation

Noun

rani

  1. queen
  2. female ruler

Synonyms

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.ɲi/
  • Rhymes: -aɲi
  • Syllabification: ra‧ni

Verb

rani

  1. third-person singular present of ranić

Portuguese

Noun

rani f (plural ranis)

  1. rani (wife of a rajah)
  2. rani (Hindu princess or female ruler in India)

Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit राज्ञी (rā́jñī, queen, princess).

Noun

rani

  1. queen

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀻 (raṇṇī), from Sanskrit राज्ञी (rājñī, queen, princess).[1][2]

Noun

rani f (accusative ranǎ, nominative plural ranǎ, accusative plural raněn)

  1. female equivalent of raj: madam,[3] Mrs,[3] lady[1][2][3]

Derived terms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “rāˊjñī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 619
  2. 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “raní”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 242b
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i ran/i¹, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 302a

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindustani رانی (rānī) / रानी (rānī), from Sanskrit राज्ञी (rā́jñī, queen, princess).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /râni/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧ni

Noun

rȁni f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏ни)

  1. rani
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

rani

  1. inflection of ran:
    1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
    2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
    3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

Noun

rani (Cyrillic spelling рани)

  1. dative/locative singular of rana

Verb

rani (Cyrillic spelling рани)

  1. inflection of raniti:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. second/third-person singular imperfect past

References

  • rani”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024