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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रजा (prajā).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /pɾə.d͡ʒɑː/,
Noun
प्रजा • (prajā) f (Urdu spelling پرجا)
- subjects
प्रजा की मत है कि अपने राजा ने देश को लूट लिया है।- prajā kī mat hai ki apne rājā ne deś ko lūṭ liyā hai.
- The subjects believe that their own king has ransacked the nation.
- people (as a single entity)
- Synonyms: जनता (jantā), रिआया (riāyā)
Declension
Declension of प्रजा (fem ā-stem)
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plural
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प्रजा
prajā
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प्रजाएँ
prajāẽ
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प्रजा
prajā
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प्रजाओं
prajāõ
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प्रजा
prajā
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प्रजाओ
prajāo
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Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From प्र- (pra-, “pro-”) + जा (jā, “birth, offspring, race”). Literally, “that which is brought forth”.
Pronunciation
Noun
प्रजा • (prajā) stem, f
- subject of a king, rule
- procreation
- offspring
(Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Appamādavaɡɡa, page 32; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya, Colombo, 2009:8. ප්රමාදමප්රමාදෙන යදා නුදති පණ්ඩිතඃ
ප්රඥාප්රසාදමාරුහ්ය ත්වශොකඃ ශොකිනීං ප්රජාම්
පර්වතස්ථ ඉව භූමිෂ්ඨාන් ධීරො බාලානවෙක්ෂතෙ- 8 Pramādamapramādena yadā nudati paṇḍitaḥ
Prajñāprasādamāruhya tvaśokaḥ śokinīṃ prajām
Parvatastha iva bhūmiṣṭhān dhīro bālānavekṣate - 8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,
having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,
as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools below. - (literally, “8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,
having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,
as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools on the ground.”)
- race
- posterity
- man, mankind
Declension
Derived terms
- प्रजाकल्प (prajākalpa, “the time of creation”)
- प्रजाकामा (prajākāmā, “desiring offspring”)
- प्रजातन्तु (prajātantu, “a line of descendants, a race”)
- प्रजापति (prajāpati, literally “a lord of creatures”)
Descendants
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