อุปราช

Thai

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Definitions
  • (government) uparāja: vice monarch, deputy monarch.
  • (government) person governing a polity as the representative of the sovereign, such as commissioner-general, governor-general, governor-in-chief, high commissioner, vicegerent, etc.

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali uparāja, rāja (king, sovereign, royal) borrowed from Sanskrit उपराज, राज (king) derived from Old Khmer ūpparāja (vice king) com from Thai อุป (vice, deputy, assistant) + Thai ราช (royal, monarch, king, master, sovereign, lord, chief, or leader, head, male chief, etc).

Origin

Thai

ราช

Gloss

royal, monarch, king, master, sovereign, lord, chief, or leader, head, male chief, etc

Concept
Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

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Emoji
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