រាជ

Khmer

Etymology

From Pali rājan (“king”), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan, “king”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic រាជ rāj WT romanisation riəc (standard) IPA(key) /riəc/

Noun

រាជ • (riəc)

1. king, royalty
2. reign
3. Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas)

Synonyms

• ស្ដេច (sdac)

Derived terms

• ត្រីរាជ (trəyriəc) (Mekong giant catfish)

Verb

រាជ • (riəc) (abstract noun ការរាជ)

1. to be royal, noble (pertaining to a king or kingdom)

Old Khmer

Variant forms

Latin	rāja
Pallava

Alternative forms

• រាជ្ជ (“rājja”), រាច (“rāca”), រាជា (“rājā”), រាជ្ជា (“rājjā”)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan, “king, royalty, reign”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hrā́ȷ́ā (“king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrā́ȷ́ā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵ-ō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Cognate with English rajah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːc ~ raˌɟaː ~ raɟə-/

Noun

រាជ (rāja)

1. king, chief, prince, royalty, reign.
2. personal name.

Verb

រាជ (rāja)

1. (stative) to be royal, paramount, sovereign.

Adjective

រាជ (rāja)

1. to be royal, noble.
2. pertaining to a king or kingdom.

Synonyms

• ស្តច៑ (stac)

Descendants

• Khmer: រាជ (riəc)
• Thai: ราช (râat)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• rāja (Latin script)
• 𑀭𑀸𑀚 (Brahmi script)
• राज (Devanagari script)
• রাজ (Bengali script)
• රාජ (Sinhalese script)
• ရာဇ or ရႃၹ (Burmese script)
• ราช or ราชะ (Thai script)
• ᩁᩣᨩ (Tai Tham script)
• ຣາຊ or ຣາຊະ (Lao script)
• 𑄢𑄂𑄎 (Chakma script)

Noun

រាជ (rāja)

1. Khmer script form of rāja, which is vocative singular of រាជន៑ (rājan, “king”)
2. Khmer script form of rāja, which is combining form of រាជន៑ (rājan, “king”)