Ranke

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German ranke, from Old High German hranca. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈʁaŋkə] Hyphenation: Ran‧ke Rhymes: -aŋkə === Noun === Ranke f (genitive Ranke, plural Ranken, diminutive Ränkchen n) tendril (of vine) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Ranke” in Duden online “Ranke”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Ranke”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891