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

rani (plural ranis)

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

wife of a rajah

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

raní

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

From Old Norse rani.

rani m (genitive singular rana, nominative plural ranar)

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

rani

  1. plural of rano

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.

  • IPA(key): [ˈrani]
  • Hyphenation: ra‧ni

rani (plural)

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

rani

  1. Rōmaji transcription of らに

From Hindi रानी (rānī).

rani

  1. queen
  2. female ruler
  • IPA(key): /ˈra.ɲi/
  • Rhymes: -aɲi
  • Syllabification: ra‧ni

rani

  1. third-person singular present of ranić

rani f (plural ranis)

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

From Sanskrit राज्ञी (rā́jñī, “queen, princess”).

rani

  1. queen

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

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

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

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

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

rȁni f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏ни)

  1. rani

Declension of rani

singular plural
nominative rani rani
genitive rani rani
dative rani ranima
accusative rani rani
vocative rani rani
locative rani ranima
instrumental rani ranima

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rani

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

rani (Cyrillic spelling рани)

  1. dative/locative singular of rana

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
  • “rani”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025