As a Hindi name
राज्ञी · noun · feminine
रानी । राजमहिषी · मत्स्यपुराण के अनुसार सूर्य की पत्नी का नाम । संज्ञा · काँसा — Śabdasāgara
राज्ञी · rājnī · s.f.
Queen ( = rānī, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 580
राजा · masculine
a male given name, Raja, from Sanskrit
राजा · masculine
king, monarch, sovereign, ruler; king
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi राजा॑ — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Sanskrit राज॑न् (rā́jan) Sanskrit राजा॑ (rā́jā)bor. Hindi राजा Borrowed from Sanskrit राजा॑ (rā́jā), from राज॑न् (rā́jan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs, from *h₃reǵ- + *-s. Doublet …” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a queen, princess, the wife of a king, &c. &c.
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M1 · same meaning "rājñī" is the vocative dual of "rājan" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
rājñī f. (see 1. rājan) a queen, princess, the wife of a king, VS. &c. &c.
N. of the western quarter or that which contains the Soul of the Universe, ChUp. iii, 15, 2 of the wife of the Sun, Pur.
deep-coloured or yellowish-red brass (consisting of three parts of copper to one of zinc or tin), L.
rājñī rājya &c. See col. 1.
rājñī 1 A queen, the wife of a king. 2 Yellowish-red brass. 3 N. of the wife of the sun.
1. rājan m. (ifc. mostly m(-rāja) , esp. in Tat-puruṣas; f(-rājan, ˚jā or ˚jñī). ; cf. Pāṇ. iv, 1, 28, Sch.) a king, sovereign, prince, chief (often applied to gods, e.g. to Varuṇa and the other Ādityas, to Indra, Yama &c., but esp. to Soma [also the plant and juice] and the Moon), RV. &c. &c.
a man of the royal tribe or the military caste, a Kṣatriya, ĀśvŚr.; ChUp.; Mn. &c. (cf. rājanya)
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