rajá

See also: raja, Raja, rája, rajā, rāja, and rājā

Central Tarahumara

Etymology

Cf. Mayo tájjac (“it burned”).

Noun

rajá (future rajimea, preterite rajali)

1. (intransitive) burn

Related terms

• rajé

 

References

• Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101)‎^[1] (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 61
• Hilton, K. Simón with Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado‎^[2] (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 41

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• rajaa (obsolete)
• rajah (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi राजा (rājā), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan), cognate with Latin rex.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈʒa/ [haˈʒa]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈʒa/ [haˈʒa]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈʒa/ [χaˈʒa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈʒa/

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ra‧já

Noun

rajá m (plural rajás)

1. rajah (Hindu prince)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈxa/ [raˈxa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ra‧já

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French rajah, radjah.

Noun

rajá m (plural rajáes or rajás)

1. rajah

Etymology 2

Verb

rajá

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of rajar

Further reading

• “rajá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10