Rayah Definition

raya, rayahs, rayas
noun
A subject of the Ottoman Empire. Used especially of non-Muslims.
American Heritage

(pejorative) A member of the tax-paying lower class of Ottoman society.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Rayah

Noun

Singular:
rayah
Plural:
rayahs

Origin of Rayah

  • Turkish râya from Arabic ra‘īyah subject, flock from ra‘ā to pasture, feed rʕy in Semitic roots

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

  • From Turkish reaya, from Arabic رعايا (raʿāyā), plural of رعية (raʿiyya).

    From Wiktionary

Rayah Sentence Examples

  • Possibly, as its form suggests, it is based on the imperial crown and symbolized at the outsgt the quasi - sovereignty over the rayah population which Mahommed II.

  • The name rayah is most commonly used of the peasants, but it does not apply only to the agricultural populations.

  • Later inquirers, including Leo, Troya and Hegel, have found that the supposition does not tally with a whole series of facts, which point to a Lombard territorial law ignoring completely any parallel Roman and personal law, to a great restriction of full civil rights among the Romans, analogous to the condition of the rayah under the Turks, and to a reduction of the Roman occupiers to a class of half-free "aldii," holding immovable tenancies under lords of superior race and privilege, and subject to the sacrifice either of the third part of their holdings or the third part of the produce.

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Words Starting With

RRARAY

Words Ending With

HAHYAH

Unscrambles

rayah

Words Starting With R and Ending With H

Starts With R & Ends With HStarts With RA & Ends With HStarts With R & Ends With AH

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