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maharana

maharana is the alternative form of maharaja.

Meaning of maharaja

Noun

maharaja (plural maharajas)

  1. A Hindu monarch ranking above a raja, an emperor.
    • I speak from a very intimate knowledge of their ways and habits after having spent a very happy twenty years amongst them with friends in every degree, from the Maharaja himself to some of the humblest coolies.1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, pages 7–8

Forms of maharana

pluralmaharanas

Questions about maharana

What is maharana the alternative form of?
Maharana is the alternative form of maharaja.

Words near maharana in the dictionary

  1. Maharal of Prague
  2. Maharam
  3. Maharam algebra
  4. Maharam algebras
  5. Maharam's theorem
  6. maharana
  7. maharanah
  8. maharanahs
  9. maharanas
  10. maharanee
  11. maharanees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maharana (page history and authors); maharaja (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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