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English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French prince, from Latin pr?nceps (“first head”), from pr?mus (“first”) + capi? (“seize, take”). Doublet of princeps.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?ns, IPA^(key): /p??ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns
• Homophone: prints (/p??nts/) (in some accents)

Noun

prince (plural princes)

1. (now archaic or historical) A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch. [from 13th c.]
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, 2010, p.600:

     By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, 2010, p.411:

     If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.

2. (obsolete) A female monarch.

   • Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.

3. Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. [from 13th c.]

4. The (male) ruler or head of a principality. [from 14th c.]
   • 2011, Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, 26 June:

     He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.

5. A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch. [from 14th c.]
6. A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.

   Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.

   • 2011, Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian, 16 October:

     Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge.

7. The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
8. A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
9. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Rohana.

Usage notes

• The female equivalent is princess.
• A prince is usually addressed as "Your Highness". A son of a king is "His Royal Highness"; a son of an emperor is "His Imperial Highness". A sovereign prince may have a style such as "His Serene Highness".

Synonyms

• (mushroom): Agaricus augustus

Hypernyms

• ruler

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Agaricus augustus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Agaricus augustus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• prince in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prince in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• pincer

French

Etymology

From Middle French prince, from Old French prince, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin pr?nceps, pr?ncipem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???s/

Noun

prince m (plural princes)

1. prince

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Turkish: prens

Further reading

• “prince” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pincer

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French prince.

Noun

prince m (plural princes)

1. prince

Descendants

• French: prince

Old French

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin pr?ncipem, accusative singular of pr?nceps.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?prin.t?s?/

Noun

prince m (oblique plural princes, nominative singular princes, nominative plural prince)

1. prince

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pr?nceps, possibly a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?intse/

Noun

prince m (oblique plural princes, nominative singular princes, nominative plural prince)

1. prince
   • c. 1235, anonymous, Vida of Jaufre Rudel:

     Jaufres Rudels de Blaia si fo mout gentils hom, e fo princes de Blaia.

     Jaufre Rudel of Blaye was a most noble man, and was the Lord of Blaye.

Walloon

Noun

prince m (plural princes, feminine princesse, feminine plural princesses)

1. prince

English

Noun

raja (plural rajas)

1. Alternative spelling of rajah

Anagrams

• Ajar, ajar

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Bengali ???? (raja) or Hindi ???? (r?j?), from Sanskrit ????? (r?jan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rad??a/

Noun

raja (Bengali script ????)

1. king

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Balinese

Romanization

raja

1. Romanization of ??
2. Romanization of ???

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Cognate with Malay raja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra.d??a/

Noun

raja

1. king

Coordinate terms

• (monarch):
  • maharaja (“emperor”)
  • permaisuri (“empress”)
  • puteri (“princess”)
  • pangiran, putera (“prince”)
  • raja isteri (“queen consort”)
  • ratu (“queen”)
  • sultan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ra.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ra.d??a/

Verb

raja

1. third-person singular present indicative form of rajar
2. second-person singular imperative form of rajar

Dutch

Noun

raja m (plural raja's, diminutive rajaatje n)

1. (rare) Alternative form of radja

Anagrams

• jaar

Estonian

Etymology 1

Either from Old East Slavic ???? (krai), or a newer loan from Russian ???? (kraj).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?j?

Noun

raja (genitive raja, partitive raja)

1. border

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

raja

1. genitive singular of rada

Finnish

(index ra)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic ???? (krai), from Proto-Slavic *kraj?. The same word was also borrowed into other Finnic languages, such as Estonian raja, Ingrian raja, Karelian raja, Ludian raja, Votic raja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?j?/, [?r?j?]
• Rhymes: -?j?
• Syllabification: ra?ja

Noun

raja

1. (geographically) boundary (line), border(line), frontier; a (city) limit; a (county) line
2. (socially; mentally) limit, bound, confine
3. (sports) line

Declension

Derived terms

• adjectives: rajallinen, rajaton
• verbs: rajata, rajoittaa

Compounds

• takaraja

Anagrams

• Arja

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• radja (van Ophuijsen (1901-1947), Republik/Soewandi (1947-1967))

Etymology

From Malay raja, from Classical Malay raja, from Sanskrit ????? (r?jan, “king, prince”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hr????? (“king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr?????, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r??-?, from *h?r??s (“ruler, king”).

Noun

raja (plural raja-raja, first-person possessive rajaku, second-person possessive rajamu, third-person possessive rajanya)

1. king:
   1. a male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
   2. (chess) the principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
   3. (card games) a playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.

Coordinate terms

• (monarch):
  • ratu (“queen”)
  • permaisuri (“empress”)
  • putri (“princess”)
  • pangeran (“prince”)
  • sultan, bupati, kaisar (“emperor”)

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Further reading

• “raja” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Ingrian

Noun

raja

1. border
2. boundary

Karelian

Noun

raja

1. rim
2. border

Latvian

Pronunciation

Noun

raja f (4th declension)

1. ray, stingray (fish with a flat body and a pointed tail (superorder Batoidea))

Declension

Malay

Etymology

from Sanskrit ????? (r?jan, “king, prince”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hr????? (“king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr?????, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r??-?, from *h?r??s (“ruler, king”).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ra.d???/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ra.d??a/
• Rhymes: -ad???, -d???, -?

Noun

raja (Jawi spelling ????, plural raja-raja, informal 1st possessive rajaku, impolite 2nd possessive rajamu, 3rd possessive rajanya)

1. king (a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation)
2. (chess) king (a playing piece in chess)

Synonyms

• datu / ????? (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• (monarch):
  • ratu (“queen”)
  • permaisuri (“empress”)
  • puteri (“princess”)
  • putera, pangeran (“prince”)
  • sultan, kaisar maharaja (“emperor”)

Derived terms

See also

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

raja

1. vocative singular of rajas (“dust”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (re'aya), from Arabic ????????? (ra??y?), plural of ????????? (ra?iyya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??ja/
• Hyphenation: ra?ja

Noun

rája f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (historical, collectively) commoners, rayah
2. (slang, collectively) a band, group, notably of friends
3. (slang, collectively) a crowd

Declension

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Reihe.

Noun

raja f

1. queue

Spanish

Etymology

From rajar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?raxa/, [?ra.xa]

Noun

raja f (plural rajas)

1. a slit, crack, gash
2. a slice (of melon, watermelon, lemon, sausage)
3. splinter (of wood)
4. (vulgar, slang) a cunt
5. (vulgar) ass (buttocks), anus

Verb

raja

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of rajar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of rajar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of rajar.

Further reading

• “raja” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tausug

Noun

raja

1. king