maharajah

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 231 words | Copyright

maharajah title of some Indian princes. XVII (mau raja). — Hind. mahārājā, f. mahā great + rājā RAJAH.
So maharanee XIX. — Hind. mahārānī (rānī queen).

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