raion

• rayon, rajon

From Russian райо́н (rajón), archaic раіо́нъ (raión), from French rayon (“honeycomb, department”). More recently influenced by the same name used in other post-Soviet states. Compare Ukrainian райо́н (rajón).

raion (plural raions)

1. An administrative unit of some Eastern European and Asian states.
   • 2000, Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, page 119:

     Suffice it to mention that several thousand raion papers were replaced by “territorial administrations” organs, and that all transport papers were closed.

The term describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district". A raion is usually an entity two steps below the national level.

• Ronia, noria, Riano, Irano-, Arion, on air, oiran, on-air

From French rayon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑi̯.on/,
• Rhymes: -ɑion
• Hyphenation^(key): rai‧on

raion

1. rayon

• viskoosi

raion

1. Rōmaji transcription of ライオン
2. Rōmaji transcription of らいおん

• region

Ultimately from Latin regiō.

raion m (plural raions)

1. region

• район (raion) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from Russian район (rajon).

raion n (plural raioane)

1. raion (administrative unit)