ranee, raunienouna lady, a gentlewoman, a woman of rank19-. etymology: Romany rawnie which is a development of the earlier arauya with the same meaning ‘a lady’; form ranee collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; form raunie collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informantsnote:
Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form Ráuni with the same meaning from English Gypsies.