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Rayah   Listen
noun
Rayah  n.  A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax. (Turkey.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rayah" Quotes from Famous Books



... Together they attacked the Serbs. Hadji Mustafa, true to his trust, organized the Serbs to resist. The Serbs were now by no means untrained to war, for many had served in the Austrian Army during the late campaigns against the Turks. But the spectacle of a Turkish Pasha inciting Christian rayah against an army of Moslems aroused the wrath of the Faithful throughout the Empire. They demanded the deposition of Hadji Mustafa and the re-admission of the Jannisaries to Belgrade. The Sultan was unable to resist and the Jannisaries returned. ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith

... he hath wooed and won the fair princess. Let us call these mutes, explain to them what we wish, and by to-morrow's sun the throne of Souffraria will fall to the race of Mezrimbi. Are we not of the purest blood of the plains, and is not Acota but a rayah of ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Captain Frederick Marryat



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