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Raj
राज
kingship, rule
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Raj means ‘rule’, ‘reign’ or ‘kingship’ in Hindi. Wiktionary traces the word through Prakrit to Sanskrit rājya, ‘royalty’ or ‘realm’, and records related uses involving kingdom and royalty. The meaning concerns rule rather than simply naming a king as a person. The English word ‘raj’ was borrowed from the same Hindi word, while related Sanskrit royal vocabulary also appears in compound names.
Source: Wiktionary, राज. How we use sources.
Spelling and pronunciation
राज is read raaj, in one syllable with a long vowel close to that in ‘father’. Raaj makes the length explicit. The final j is like English j, rather than French zh. The Roman spelling Raj leaves the long vowel unmarked.
Also spelled Raaj.