rangi

Esperanto

Etymology

From rango (“rank”) +‎ -i.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈranɡi]
  • Rhymes: -anɡi
  • Hyphenation: ran‧gi

Verb

rangi (present rangas, past rangis, future rangos, conditional rangus, volitive rangu)

  1. (intransitive) to rank

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili rangi, ultimately from Persian رنگ (rang).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /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)

Noun

rangi class 14 (plural marangi)[1]

  1. colour

References
  1. “rangi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 370. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. 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(key): /ra.ŋi/, [ɾɐ.ŋi]

Noun

rangi

  1. sky, heaven
  2. day
    Synonyms: ao, rā
  3. weather
    Synonym: huarere
  4. 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

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ranger
  2. inflection of rangir:
    1. first-person singular preterite indicative
    2. 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

  1. sky
  2. cloud

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Omani Arabic [script needed] (rang), from Persian رنگ (rang).[1]

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun

rangi (n class, plural rangi)

  1. colour, pigment
    Synonym: launi

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Kikuyu: rangi
  • → 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
  1. 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(key): [ˈɾa.ŋi]

Verb

rangi

  1. (transitive) to coil around

Conjugation
Conjugation of rangi
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st torangi forangi mirangi
2nd norangi nirangi
3rd Masculine orangi irangi, yorangi†
Feminine morangi
Neuter irangi
† - archaic

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

Tiruray

Noun

rangi

  1. (anatomy) forehead
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