Raj
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
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Etymology 1
Proprialisation of raj (“(India) reign, rule”, noun), borrowed from Hindustani राज / راج (rāj, “reign, rule; empire, kingdom; country, state; royalty”), from Sanskrit राज्य (rājyá, “empire, kingdom, realm; kingship, royalty, sovereignty; country”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right or straighten oneself; to govern, rule; just; right”).[1] Doublet of Reich and riche.
Proper noun
Raj (historical)
- Short for British Raj; the period of colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire between 1858 and 1947.
- Synonym: British India
- during the Raj
- (proscribed) The whole period of British influence or rule in the Indian subcontinent from the 1600s to 1947.
- A surname.
Translations
period of colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire — see also British Raj
Noun
Raj (plural Rajes)
- (by extension from the proper noun) A system of government where authority is exercised by a specific group.
- 1965, New Race[1], volume 1:
- After Gandhiji's Ram Raj, which lived and went with him to the wilderness, it was Goonda Raj everywhere[...]There was nothing that the goonda did not manpiulate. He turned community development blocks into chips of self-aggrandisement. Panchyat Raj was the Pentagon of Goonda Raj.
- 1999, Ronald J. Herring, edited by Meredith Jung-En Woo, The Developmental State, →ISBN, page 310:
- Concern that the license - permit quota raj was stifling growth focused on the drop in the rate of growth in industry after 1965...
Translations
system of government where authority is exercised by a specific group
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Raj
- (India, journalism) Abbreviation of Rajasthan.
Etymology 3
Proper noun
Raj (plural Rajs)
- A diminutive of the male given name Rajiv.
References
- ^ Compare “raj, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “Raj, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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