Given name & surname · Hindi
राय
“king”
राय (rāy) is a surname from Sauraseni Prakrit, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Hindi.
HindiWritten in Devanagari script. In English: rāy.
Meaning & origin
What it means
राय goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs, meaning “king.”
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Where it comes from
राय comes from Sauraseni Prakrit, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀭𑀸𑀬, from Sanskrit राजन्, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrā́ȷ́ā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“king”).
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राय’s family of names
In Hindi usage, राय shares an earlier linguistic root with राजा. In Hindi usage, राय as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as rāy. In Hindi usage, राय as a surname has a transliteration in rāy.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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