Rai Definition

rī
noun
A form of popular Algerian music combining traditional Arabic vocal styles with various elements of popular Western music and featuring outspoken, often controversial lyrics.
American Heritage

A member of an ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Nepal.

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Origin of Rai

  • Algerian French raï perhaps from dialectal Arabic (ha er-)ray (here is the) view (frequently heard in the songs) from Arabic ra’y view from ra’ā to observe rℵy in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Rai Sentence Examples

  • At Rai about thirty of his shorter works are said to have been composed.

  • It was an exciting chase of king by king, in which each covered the ground by incredible exertions, shedding their slower-going followers as they went, past Rhagae (Rai) and the Caspian gates, till early one morning Alexander came in sight of the broken train which still clung to the fallen king.

  • The head of the Church (Zara-Shushtrotema) had his seat at Rai in Media and was the first person in the state next to the king.

  • The guru before his death at Kiratpur, on the margin of the Sutlej, instructed his grandson and successor, Guru Har Rai, to retain two thousand two hundred mounted soldiers ever with him as a precautionary measure.

  • Har Rai was charged with friendship for Dara Shikoh, the son of Shah Jahan, and also with preaching a religion di s tinct from Islam.

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Words Starting With

RRARAI

Words Ending With

IAIRAI

Unscrambles

rai

Words Starting With R and Ending With I

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3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With R3 Letter Words Ending With I