Given name · Tamil
ராஜா
ராஜா (rājā) is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Tamil.
TamilWritten in Tamil script. In English: rājā.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
ராஜா comes from Sanskrit, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sanskrit राजन्, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs, built from Sanskrit राज् + -अन्.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
ராஜா’s family of names
In Tamil usage, ராஜா shares an earlier linguistic root with அரசன். In Tamil usage, ராஜா can be written in the Roman alphabet as rājā. In Tamil usage, ராஜா has a transliteration in rājā.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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