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ˈrɑ dʒəra·jah

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. raja, rajahnoun

    a prince or king in India

Wiktionary

  1. rajahnoun

    a Hindu prince or ruler in India

  2. Etymology: From Hindustani /, from.

Wikipedia

  1. rajah

    Raja (; from Sanskrit: राजन्, IAST rājan-) is a royal title used for South Asian monarchs. The title is equivalent to king or princely ruler in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The title has a long history in South Asia and Southeast Asia, being attested from the Rigveda, where a rājan- is a ruler, see for example the daśarājñá yuddhá, the "Battle of Ten Kings".

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  1. rajah

    A rajah is a title used for a monarch or princely ruler in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is specifically associated with the rulers of historical India, Nepal, and the Malaysian archipelago. The term is also used more broadly to refer to a powerful or influential person.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rajahadjective

    a native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts

  2. Etymology: [Hind. rj, Skr. rjan, akin to L. rex, regis. See Regal, a.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Rajah

    Raja, rä′ja, n. a native prince or king in Hindustan.—ns. Raj (räj), rule; Ra′jahship, the dignity or principality of a rajah; Rajpoot, Rajput (räj-poot′), a member of various tribes in India, descended either from the old royal races of the Hindus or from the warrior caste. [Sans. rājan, a king, cog. with L. rex; Sans. putra, a son.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Rajah

    a title which originally belonged to princes of the Hindu race, who exercised sovereign rights over some tract of territory; now applied loosely to native princes or nobles with or without territorial lordship.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. rajah

    A hereditary prince among the Hindus belonging to the warrior caste, or the Kshattriya. In later times it became a title given by the British government to Hindus of rank, and is now not uncommonly assumed by the zemindars, or land-holders; the title of Maharajah, or “great Rajah,” being in these days generally reserved to the more or less independent native princes.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RAJAH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rajah is ranked #90853 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rajah surname appeared 203 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rajah.

    48.2% or 98 total occurrences were Asian.
    28% or 57 total occurrences were Black.
    9.3% or 19 total occurrences were White.
    7.8% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    6.4% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rajah in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rajah in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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