# rangi
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From rango (“rank”) +‎ -i.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈranɡi]
* Rhymes: -anɡi
* Hyphenation: ran‧gi

### Verb

rangi (present rangas, past rangis, future rangos, conditional rangus, volitive rangu)
* (intransitive) to rank

## Kikuyu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili rangi, ultimately from Persian رنگ (rang).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾàᵑɡǐ/
    As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
* (Kiambu)
   * (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.

### Noun

rangi class 14 (plural marangi)
* colour

### References

* 1 2 “rangi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 370. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
* ↑ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *laŋi (compare with Hawaiian lani, Samoan lagi), from Proto-Oceanic *laŋit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laŋit (compare with Malay langit, Malagasy lanitra), from Proto-Austronesian *laŋiC (“sky”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ra.ŋi/, [ɾɐ.ŋi]

### Noun

rangi
* sky, heaven
* day
    Synonyms: ao, rā
* weather
    Synonym: huarere
* tune, air, melody

### References

* “rangi” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
* Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 391-4

## Portuguese
### Verb

rangi
* first-person singular preterite indicative of ranger
* inflection of rangir:
** first-person singular preterite indicative
** second-person plural imperative

## Rapa Nui
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *laŋi, from Proto-Oceanic *laŋit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laŋit, from Proto-Austronesian *laŋiC.

### Noun

rangi
* sky
* cloud

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Omani Arabic رنج (rang), from Persian رنگ (rang).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

rangi class IX (plural rangi class X)
* colour, pigment
    Synonym: launi

#### Derived terms

* chai ya rangi

#### Descendants

* → Kikuyu: rangi
* → Lingala: lángi
* → Tooro: erangi

### See also

Colors in Swahili · rangi (layout · text) :
| -eupe | -a kijivujivu ; -a kijivu | -eusi |
| -ekundu | -a machungwa; -a hudhurungi ; -a kahawia | -a manjano ; -a kimanjano ; -a njano ; -a dhahabu |
| -a manjani giza | -a kibichi ; -a kijani | -a manjani mwangaza |
| -a bluu mwangaza | -a samawati | -a bluu |
| -a urujuani | -a zambarau | -a waridi ; -a pinki |

### References

* ↑ Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎, volume 10, number 1, page 8 of 1-10: “‘Color’, Sw rangi. From OAr reng (R: 72) / ráng (N: 96), from Persian rang.”

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɾa.ŋi]

### Verb

rangi
* (transitive) to coil around

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tiruray
### Noun

rangi
* (anatomy) forehead