maharajah
French, noun\ma.a.ʁa.dʒa\
maharajah is spelled M-A-H-A-R-A-J-A-H (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maharajah is a French masculine noun meaning “maharaja” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Titre souvent pris en Inde par un rajah étant le suzerain de plusieurs rajahs”.
What does maharajah mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemaharaja
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Titre souvent pris en Inde par un rajah étant le suzerain de plusieurs rajahs. 2. Les conflits qui ensanglantent encore le Cachemire au début du XXIᵉ siècle sont nés des atermoiements du maharajah du Jammu et Cachemire à la veille de l’indépendance. – (Christophe Jaffrelot, L’Inde contemporaine: De 1950 à nos jours, nouvelle édition, 2006)
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of maharajah
- maharajahs plural
- maharadja
- maharadjah
- maharaja
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maharajah?
- \ma.a.ʁa.dʒa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is maharajah in French?
maharajah appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).