# rani
## English
### Alternative forms

* ranee

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɹɑː.niː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

rani (plural ranis)
* The wife of a rajah.
* A Hindu princess or female ruler in India.

#### Related terms

* maharani

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Rina, Irân, Nair, rain, ARNI, Îrân, Rain, arni, NIRA, Iran, Īrān, Rian, ARIN, airn, RNAi, Irān, Arin

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ra‧ni
* IPA: /ɾaˈni/ [ɾaˈn̪i]

### Verb

raní
* to go near; to get close; to be adjacent
    Antonym: rayo

#### Derived terms

* harani
* irani
* magrani
* pagkarani

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse rani.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraːnɪ/
* Rhymes: -aːnɪ

### Noun

rani m (genitive singular rana, nominative plural ranar)
* (anatomy) proboscis
** trunk (of an elephant)
** snout (of other animals)
    Synonym: trjóna

#### Declension
## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrani/

### Noun

rani
* 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: [ˈrani]
* Hyphenation: ra‧ni

### Noun

rani (plural)
* queen:
** queen regnant: female monarch
    Synonym: ratu
** queen consort: wife of a king
    Synonyms: permaisuri, ratu

#### Related terms

* maharani

### Further reading

* “rani” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

rani
* Rōmaji transcription of らに

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From Hindi रानी (rānī).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɰani], [ɾani]

### Noun

rani
* queen
* female ruler

#### Synonyms

* larenn

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.ɲi/
* Rhymes: -aɲi
* Syllabification: ra‧ni

### Verb

rani
* third-person singular present of ranić

## Portuguese
### Noun

rani f (plural ranis)
* rani (wife of a rajah)
* rani (Hindu princess or female ruler in India)

## Rohingya
### Etymology

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

### Noun

rani
* queen

## Romani
### Alternative forms

* raji, rajni
* rai (International Standard)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

rani f (accusative ranǎ, nominative plural ranǎ, accusative plural raněn)
* female equivalent of raj: madam, Mrs, lady

#### Derived terms

* Raji

### References

* 1 2 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “rāˊjñī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 619
* 1 2 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
* 1 2 3 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

* rȁna

### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /râni/
* Hyphenation: ra‧ni

#### Noun

rȁni f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏ни)
* rani

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

rani
* inflection of ran:
** masculine nominative/vocative plural
** definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
** definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

#### Noun

rani (Cyrillic spelling рани)
* dative/locative singular of rana

#### Verb

rani (Cyrillic spelling рани)
* inflection of raniti:
** third-person singular present
** second-person singular imperative
** second/third-person singular imperfect past

### References

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