Noun: maharaja
| Singular | maharaja |
| Plural | maharajas |
Sample Sentences
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I speak from a very intimate knowledge of their ways and habits after having spent a very happy twenty years amongst them with friends in every degree, from the Maharaja himself to some of the humblest coolies. [1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, pages 7–8:]
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Benny: Hey, T.C., what's a maharaja?
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Top Cat: What's a what?
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Benny: A maharaja.
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Top Cat: Oh, do I look like Daniel Webster? I didn't write no dictionary. [1961 October 4, “The Maharajah of Pookajee” (2:33 from the start), in Top Cat, season 1, episode 2:]
Nouns inflected like maharaja
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi महाराजा (mahārājā). First attested in 1698.
Verbs referencing "maharaja"
Hungarian Nouns
maharadzsa, German Nouns
Maharadscha.