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raj

/ɹɑːd͡ʒ//ɹɑːd͡ʒ/

raj noun: reign; rule.

Noun (1)

raj (uncountable)

  1. (South-Asia) Reign; rule.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Raj

Raj (countable and uncountable, plural Rajs or Rajes)

  1. (abbreviation, ellipsis, historical) Ellipsis of British Raj, the period of colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire between 1858 and 1947.
    • during the Raj
    Synonyms:
    British India
  2. (historical, proscribed) The whole period of British influence or rule in the Indian subcontinent from the 1600s to 1947.
  3. (historical) A surname.
  4. (historical) A male given name.

Noun (2) capitalized: Raj

Raj (plural Rajes)

  1. (broadly, historical) A system of government where authority is exercised by a specific group.
    • Licence Raj; Mafia Raj; Goonda Raj
    • 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.1965, New Race, volume 1

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Raj

Raj

  1. (India, abbreviation, historical) Abbreviation of Rajasthan.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Raj

Raj (plural Rajs)

  1. (historical) A diminutive of the male given name Rajiv.

raj meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

raj in Hindi

राज

raj in Tamil

ராஜ்

raj in Marathi

राज

raj in Bengali

রাজ
More languagesFewer languages
raj in Telugu
రాజ్
raj in Malayalam
രാജ്
raj in Kannada
ರಾಜ್
raj in Gujarati
રાજ
raj in Odia
ରାଜ୍

Synonyms of raj

Forms of raj

Proper noun
pluralRajs
pluralRajes
Noun
pluralRajes

Origin of raj

Borrowed from Hindi राज (rāj), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of rex, rich, and others.

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”). Doublet of Reich.

Words formed from raj

Phrases with raj

Words that rhyme with raj

Questions about raj

What does raj mean?
Raj means reign; rule.
What is raj in Hindi?
Raj in Hindi is राज. See Raj meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is raj?
Raj can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce raj?
Raj is pronounced /ɹɑːd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of raj?
The plural of raj is Rajes.

Words near raj in the dictionary

  1. raiyats
  2. raiyatwari
  3. raiyot
  4. raiyots
  5. Raizal
  6. raj
  7. raja
  8. Raja Ampat–South Halmahera
  9. raja shelduck
  10. Rajab
  11. rajadhiraja

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: raj (page history and authors); Raj (page history and authors); raj (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raj (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raj (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raj (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raj (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raj (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raj (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raj (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raj (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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