Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of batoid selachians: used with various limits.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See skate.

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Examples

  • Ila nadhani kuna umuhimu wa kuwafundisha watanzania “raia” mbinu za awali za medani na jinsi ya kusaidia na kujisaidia panapotokea balaa lolote. kwa sasa watz wengi bado “bongo lala” - penye hatari sisi tunakimbilia, utayari na kutambua hatari ni karibu na sifuri - JKT irudishwe upya kuondoa uzembe unaojionyesha na kuweka watu fiti kwa mujibu (kupiga msasa).

    Global Voices in English » Tanzania: Dar es Salaam Armoury Explosion Death Toll Rises 2009

  • Mtandao huu wa ze utamu umkuwepo kwa muda mrefu sana na watu wengi wasio na hatia (raia wa kawaida) wamedhalilishwa sana kupitia mtandao huo kwa picha zao kuwekwa bila ridhaa yao. nyingi ya hizo picha ni za utupu na hata zile ambazo siyo za utupu ziliwekwa bila ridhaa ya wahusika. hivi kuwekwa picha ya rais Kikwete ndo kile chombo kinachojifanya cha usalama kinakurupuka kuwasaka wenye mtandao?

    Global Voices in English » Tanzanian blogger faces jail term over manipulated photographic images 2009

  • Mwezi Septemba 2009, hali mbaya ya uhusiano kati yao ilipelekea ghasia mbaya katika Kampala, na raia wanahofia kwamba moto huu unaweza kusababisha ghasia nyingine [...] 21 March 2010, 10: 21 am

    Global Voices in English » Uganda: Nine Dead in Kampala Riots 2009

  • Mazingira ama makambi ya jeshi ni mazuri sana, salama, kuna utaratibu safi na utunzaji wa mazingira ni namba moja! ndiyo sababu popote kambi ilipo, raia watasogea na watajenga tuu, ukiangalia maeneo yote hayo yalikuwa misitu minene wakati jeshi lilipo establish makambi lakini with time wananchi wamesogea na wengine wamevamia kabisa!

    Global Voices in English » Tanzania: Dar es Salaam Armoury Explosion Death Toll Rises 2009

  • Mataifa ya Afrika yanawajibu wa kulinda haki na uhuru wa raia wao.

    Letters: Gay rights in Africa 2011

  • The next dish, raia de alhada, was his favorite, Figueiredo said: cubes of boiled potato and flakes of boiled skate dressed while the potatoes are warm with vinegar, that powerful oil, and flor de sal.

    Restaurant Vila Lisa 2001

  • But all these transactions did nothing to improve the lot of the raia.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • Bulgars quitted their native lands -- they were not known to the Turks as Serbs and Bulgars, but merely as raia of the province of

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • Very wretched was the lot of the Macedonian Slavs -- occasionally the Exarchists and occasionally the Patriarchists were in the ascendant, but while in religious matters the Greeks clung by all possible means to their ancient, privileged position, so the Turks maintained in secular affairs the sorry plight of their Slav raia.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • And it was in those dreary days when all the raia felt themselves as brothers [24] that the Serb and Bulgar planted that democracy which flourishes among them now.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

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