noun
Meaning 1
A Hindu prince or ruler in India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rajah
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɹɑː.d͡ʒə/
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/ˈɹɑː.ʒə/
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Philippines: /ˈɹaː.ha/
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rhymes with -ɑːdʒə
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rhymes with -ɑːʒə
noun
Meaning 2
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
a prince or king in India
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: raja
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aristocrat, blue blood, patrician
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi राजा (rājā) and Urdu راجا (rājā), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan, “king, prince”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hrā́ȷ́ā (“king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrā́ȷ́ā, from Proto-Indo-European *h3rḗǵ-ō, from *h3rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of Rex, rex, and roy.
Across languages
Translations
94 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: raxha — Hindu prince
- Arabic: رَاجَا (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Armenian: ռաջա (ṙaǰa) — Hindu prince
- Assamese: ৰাজা (raza) — Hindu prince
- Azerbaijani: racə — Hindu prince
- Belarusian: раджа́ (radžá) — Hindu prince
- Bengali: রাজা (raja) — Hindu prince
- Bulgarian: ра́джа (rádža) — Hindu prince
- Burmese: ရာဇ (raja.) — Hindu prince
- Burmese: ရာဂျာ (ragya) — Hindu prince
- Catalan: raja — Hindu prince
- Catalan: rajà — Hindu prince
- Chinese Mandarin: 拉賈 /拉贾 (lājiǎ) — Hindu prince
- Chinese Mandarin: 羅闍 /罗阇 (luódū) — Hindu prince
- Chinese Mandarin: 拉惹 (lārě) — Hindu prince
- Czech: rádža — Hindu prince
- Danish: raja — Hindu prince
- Dutch: radja — Hindu prince
- Dutch: raja — Hindu prince
- Esperanto: raĝo — Hindu prince
- Estonian: radža — Hindu prince
- Finnish: radža — Hindu prince
- French: rajah — Hindu prince
- Georgian: რაჯა (raǯa) — Hindu prince
- German: Raja — Hindu prince
- German: Radscha — Hindu prince
- German: Radja — Hindu prince
- German: Rajah — Hindu prince
- Greek: ράτζα (rátza) — Hindu prince
- Gujarati: રાજા (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Hebrew: רָגָ׳ה (raja) — Hindu prince
- Hindi: राजा (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Hungarian: rádzsa — Hindu prince
- Indonesian: raja — Hindu prince
- Italian: ragià — Hindu prince
- Japanese: ラージャー (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Kannada: ರಾಜಾ (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Kazakh: раджа (radja) — Hindu prince
- Khmer: រាជ (riəc) — Hindu prince
- Khmer: រាជា (riəciə) — Hindu prince
- Khmer: រ៉ាចា (raacaa) — Hindu prince
- Korean: 라자 (raja) — Hindu prince
- Kyrgyz: раджа (radja) — Hindu prince
- Lao: ລາຊາ (lā sā) — Hindu prince
- Latvian: radža — Hindu prince
- Lithuanian: radža — Hindu prince
- Macedonian: раџа (radža) — Hindu prince
- Malay: raja — Hindu prince
- Malayalam: രാജാ (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Malayalam: രാജാവു് (rājāvŭ) — Hindu prince
- Marathi: राजा (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Mongolian: ража (raža) — Hindu prince
- Nepali: राजा (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Norwegian Bokmål: raja — Hindu prince
- Odia: ରାଜା (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Pali: rājan — Hindu prince
- Pashto: راجا (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Dari: رَاجَا (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Dari: رَاجَه (rāja) — Hindu prince
- Iranian Persian: راجا (râjâ) — Hindu prince
- Iranian Persian: راجِه (râje) — Hindu prince
- Polish: radża — Hindu prince
- Portuguese: rajá — Hindu prince
- Punjabi: ਰਾਜਾ (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Punjabi: راجا (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Romanian: rajah — Hindu prince
- Russian: ра́джа (rádža) — Hindu prince
- Russian: раджа́ (radžá) — Hindu prince
- Sanskrit: राजा (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Serbo-Croatian: ра̏џа — Hindu prince
- Serbo-Croatian: rȁdža — Hindu prince
- Sinhalese: රජ (raja) — Hindu prince
- Slovak: radža — Hindu prince
- Slovene: radža — Hindu prince
- Spanish: rajá — Hindu prince
- Swedish: raja — Hindu prince
- Swedish: radja — Hindu prince
- Tagalog: raha — Hindu prince
- Tagalog: raja — Hindu prince
- Tajik: роҷа (roja) — Hindu prince
- Tamil: ராஜா (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Tamil: ராஜன் (rājaṉ) — Hindu prince
- Tatar: раҗа (raca) — Hindu prince
- Tatar: раджа (radja) — Hindu prince
- Telugu: రాజా (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Telugu: రాజు (rāju) — Hindu prince
- Thai: ราชา (raa-chaa) — Hindu prince
- Turkish: raja — Hindu prince
- Turkmen: raja — Hindu prince
- Ukrainian: раджа́ (radžá) — Hindu prince
- Urdu: راجا (rājā) — Hindu prince
- Uyghur: راجا (raja) — Hindu prince
- Uzbek: roja — Hindu prince
- Yiddish: ראַדזשאַ (radzha) — Hindu prince
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