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Rai definition

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

  • 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.

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

  • His later life was spent in various parts of the Moslem world, in Aleppo with Saif-ud-Daula (to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs), in Rai with the Buyid vizier Ibn `Abbad and elsewhere.

  • Epiphanes (163) he conquered Media, where he refounded the town"of Rhagae (Rai near Teheran) under the name of Arsacia; and about 141 he invaded Babylonia.

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