raj: [18] English acquired the word raj, of course, from the period of British rule in India. It was borrowed from Hindi rāj ‘reign’, which goes back to Sanskrit rājā, a derivative of rājati ‘he rules’. Closely related is rajah [16], which came (probably via Portuguese) from Hindi rājā, a descendant of Sanskrit rājan ‘king’ (the Sanskrit feminine from rājnī produced ranee [17]).
The whole family of words goes back to an Indo- European base *rēg-, which also produced Latin rēx ‘king’, source of English regal and royal. Maharajah [17] means literally ‘great ruler’ (Hindi mahā ‘great’ comes from the same source as Latin magnus ‘great’, ancestor of English magnify, magnitude, etc). => regal, royal
Raj (n.)
British rule in India, 1859, from Hindi raj "rule, dominion, kingdom" (see rajah).
雙語例句
1. Raj: You are beginning to get the idea, Paul.
瑞吉: 你開始抓到要領(lǐng)了, 保羅.
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2. Raj : Then we could be the Bengal tigers.
那我們可以叫“孟加拉虎隊(duì)”.
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3. And Administrator Raj Shah is leading our efforts.
拉吉夫?沙赫署長負(fù)責(zé)主持這方面的工作.
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4. The days of the British raj are ended.
英國統(tǒng)治的日子結(jié)束了.
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5. Raj: Your ego, identified with and as body, equates alertness with physical movement, physical accomplishing.