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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of rai¹

C20: Arabic, literally: opinion

Example Sentences

Defending their lifestyle as one "without stress" and in harmony with nature, Australian Catherine Birmingham and Briton Nathan Trevallion told national broadcaster Rai this month that their children were "growing up better" in their home in the woods.

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A tour of the home given to Rai showed a wood-burning stove in a kitchen, colourful children's beds covered with stuffed animals, and Christmas lights strewn about the home.

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"The children are happy, healthy. We haven't done anything wrong if we want to return to nature," Birmingham told Rai in halting Italian.

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"They are murderers, people with no present and no future," he told national broadcaster RAI.

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Blackwell had created fake flight confirmations, emails and bank transactions to make the scam appear genuine, Ms Rai told the court.

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