raj
/ɹɑd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Ellipsis of British Raj, the period of colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire between 1858 and 1947.
Countable; Uncountable
name
The whole period of British influence or rule in the Indian subcontinent from the 1600s to 1947.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A diminutive of the male given name Rajiv.
Example Sentences
- "during the Raj"
- "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."
- "Concern that the license - permit quota raj was stifling growth focused on the drop in the rate of growth in industry after 1965..."
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi राज (rāj), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of rex, rich, and others.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃reǵ-, राज्य
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɑd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ɹɑːd͡ʒ/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.