राज راج ♣ Eng. right, rich

राज راج ♣ Eng. right, rich

[rāj], m. a kingdom, reign, realm, rule, government.

[◀MIA: Pk. Pa. rajja- n. ‘kingdom, rule’ ◀OIA rājyá- (rājyà-, rā́jya- AV.) n. ‘kingship’ RV., ‘kingdom’ AV. <√rāj ‘rule’ ◀PIE *reĝ- ‘to make right, move in a straight line; chief, king’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. right, rich ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. realm, regime, region, royal, regulate, rule ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0580; (Turner, 1966) 10694, p.618; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 562; (MW, 1899) 0875, 0872; (Pokorny, 1959) 0854; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.444