rajashipn.
/ˈrɑːdʒəʃɪp/, /ˈrɑːdʒɑːʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈrɑ(d)ʒəʃɪp/ 1. A territory or state ruled by a raja.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of others
thanage14..
thanedomc1425
satrapy1569
chiefery1587
caliphate1614
sultany1639
sagamoreship1670
rajaship1698
ladyship1709
satrapate1717
march1726
sachemdom1764
Nizamat1765
khanate1799
jarldom1820
sultanate1822
knightship1845
sheikhdom1845
sachemship1876
sheikh-ship1878
shahdom1884
chiefship1894
thakurate1901
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 166 They are only said to be a petty Rajaship in the Plain.
1761 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan i. 15 There are a number of Rajahships interspersed throughout India, who..have..never been subdued.
1799 Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 1 374 Thus was destroyed the ancient kingdom or Rajaship of Tagara.
1834 J. Forbes Oriental Mem. IV. xxxvii. 20 An indifferent road through a hilly country brought us to Maulpoor, the termination of the Ragoghur rajahship.
1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India I. iii. iv. 430 The two rajahships or Hindoo states of Trichinopoly and Tanjore.
1942 R. Emerson Govt. & Nationalism S.E. Asia iii. iv. 171 The older Indian rajahship of the peninsular Malayas became influenced by the Islamic concept of the ruler.
1991 Past & Present Aug. 105 Malaysia is plural in the sense of being a federation of nine formerly independent sultanates or rajaships, and four other territories.
2. The rank or power of a raja. Also used as a title.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > Indian or Asian ruler > position of
emirship1758
rajaship1784
khanate1849
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > titles applied to royalty > for a king or ruler > for foreign king or ruler
Sophy1539
shah1566
sophi1598
padishah1612
pangeran1616
Sophia1649
Nizam1769
rajaship1784
Shahanshah1815
inkosi1835
1784 F. Gladwin tr. A. Allâmî Ayeen Akbery II. 101 At the breaking out of these troubles, the nobles raised to the rajahship, Rawel Arsee, the son-in-law of their late prince.
1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 706 The gentle Hindoo cared not how the Rajahship was disposed of.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 86 It was the acceptance of the ‘Rajahship’ which led to the confiscation of his estates.
1867 Good Words 8 336/1 His Rajahship rose, took a wreath of flowers and hung it over G—'s neck.
1896 Littell's Living Age 18 Jan. 169 George Thomas turned his back upon his rajahship of Hariána forever.
1923 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 24 July 4/3 The Raja Wobangull must be shorn of his rajaship.
1980 M. Alexander & S. Anand Queen Victoria's Maharajah i. 6 The young maharajah firmly refused..to mark the forehead of the commander-in-chief..with the saffron sign of rajahship.
1999 Guardian (Nexis) 2 Oct. (Travel section) 2 Their dynasty began when 38-year-old James..put down a rebel lion in the interior and was promptly granted rajahship, by a grateful Sarawak court.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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