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rani

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɹɑː.niː//

The wife of a rajah.

noun

  1. 1

    The wife of a rajah.

  2. 2

    A Hindu princess or female ruler in India.

Etymology

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

Forms

plural
ranis
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).