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rai

[ rahy ]

noun

  1. a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.


rai

/ raɪ /

noun

  1. a type of Algerian popular music based on traditional Algerian music influenced by modern Western pop
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rai1

First recorded in 1985–90; from Algerian French raï, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Algerian Arabic (ha er-)ray “(here is the) view, (that's the) thinking,” a phrase often used in the songs
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rai1

C20: Arabic, literally: opinion
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Example Sentences

Eisenstadt was sitting on a park bench reading a book when Ibrahim Salem Ali al-Rai attacked and killed him with an axe in 1994.

In the letter, shown on Italian Rai Tre state television, Lombardi wrote of his concerns and asked how to address the press.

It is a spring of massacres, destruction and violence, as Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, the head of Lebanon's Maronite Church, put it.

But the riders whirled along towards Rai Bareilly, and in another quarter of an hour the night would be their best guardian.

Cure (v), kirai̍schachkais (rai and kais run together; the whole short).

Art thou certain, Dwarika Rai, that they have slain my brother?

He then questioned Dwarika Rai as to who laid the powder train.

In the voyage of life he had arrived at the desert shores of Rai Bahadurship by diligently plying his oats of salaams.

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