Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wife of a raja.
- noun A princess or queen in India or the East Indies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India, the wife of a raja, or a reigning princess; a queen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
wife of arajah . - noun A
Hindu princess orfemale ruler inIndia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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which means to worship, and the word rani, which means queen.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Gadadhara Pandit Dasa 2011
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Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'rani'.
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Thanks so much for including me in such a fine list of articles ... so much good reading here. rani permalink
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Who can name the old hindi movie in which Deepti Naval wins the heart of FIL, Uttpal Dutt with bought out kachoris smuggled into the kitchen by a ever naughty Saeed Jaffery, saying that the bahu rani has made them?
Pyaz Ki Kachori Anjali 2008
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It's the rulers that matter, the rajas and the nabobs - like this rani of yours in Jhansi.
Fiancée 2010
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Who can name the old hindi movie in which Deepti Naval wins the heart of FIL, Uttpal Dutt with bought out kachoris smuggled into the kitchen by a ever naughty Saeed Jaffery, saying that the bahu rani has made them?
Archive 2008-04-01 Anjali 2008
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The diamond mines in Panna, the temples of Khajuraho and Jhansi ki rani are a few names that make this place unique.
colleen commented on the word rani
it's a title, isn't it? feminine of raja or rai? my best friend growing up was called Rani.
September 1, 2007