One who has accomplished his aim, attainer of meaning; attainer of wealth.

Word History: Siddharth a king who was a partial incarnation of the asura Krodhavasa (M. Bh.); a warrior of Skanda (M.Bh.); a minister of Dasaratha (V. Ramayana); Gautama Buddha in his childhood; the father of the 24th Arhat of the present Avasarpini (K. Sagara); Wild Turnip (Brassica campestris).

A prince, chief, or ruler in India or the East Indies.

[Hindi raja, from Sanskrit, king. See reg- in Indo-European Roots.]

Word History: Rajah is familiar to us from the Sanskrit raja, “king,” and maharaja, “great king.” The Sanskrit root raj-, “to rule,” comes from the Indo-European root *reg-, “to move in a straight line, direct, rule.” The same Indo-European root appears in Italic (Latin) and Celtic. Rex means “king” in Latin, coming from *reg-s, whence our regal and, through French, royal. Two of the Gaulish kings familiar to us from Caesar, Dumnorix and Vercingetorix, incorporate the Celtic word rix, “king,” in their names. (Rix also forms part of the name of that fictitious, indomitable Gaul Asterix.) Germanic at some time borrowed the Celtic word rix. It appears as reiks, “ruler,” in Gothic, as well as in older Germanic names ending in -ric, such as Alaric and Theodoric, the latter of whom has a name that is equivalent to German Dietrich, “people's king.” A derivative of Celtic rix, *rig-yo-, meaning “rule, domain,” was also borrowed into Germanic, and is the source of German Reich, “rule, empire.”