Word of the Day
राजा
Rajah
Sanskrit
Vedic/Classical Sanskrit/raː.d͡ʑɐn/Modern Hindi/raː.d͡ʒaː/
“A village title in India became a courtly English word for a king.”
Rajah looks English. It was old in India more than two thousand years before England borrowed it. The deep source is Sanskrit राजन्, rājan, attested in Vedic texts composed in northwestern South Asia before 1000 BCE. By the early historic period, the shorter form राजा, rājā, was the ordinary word for a ruler.
5 stops · from Punjab region to London