Rai

Rai or RAI may refer to:

Title of royalty and nobility

• Rai (title), means king and is equivalent to Rao or Roy, a princely title used by many Hindu rulers in India
• Rai Bahadur or Rai Sahib, a noble title given during British Raj in India

People

• Rai (surname)
• Rai (ethnic group), in Nepal
• Rai dynasty (c. 416–644 CE), a Buddhist dynasty based in Sindh in modern Pakistan
• Rai Sikh, adherents of Sikh faith
• Raí (born 1965), Brazilian footballer

Places

• Rai (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province), a metropolitan province of the Church of the East
• Rai, Orne, a commune of the Orne département, in France
• Rai, Sonipat, a village in Haryana, India
• Rai University, a university in India
• Rai, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
• Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
• Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, an exhibition and convention Centre in Amsterdam
  • Amsterdam RAI station, a railway station with the same name

Science, healthcare, and technology

• Radioactive iodine uptake test, RAI uptake test, a diagnostic scan
• Rai (unit), a traditional Thai unit of area, equaling 1,600 m²
• Root analogue dental implant

Transportation

• Réseau Aérien Interinsulaire, a former name of the airline Air Tahiti
• IATA airport code for Praia International Airport in Cape Verde
• Islamic Republic of Iran Railways

Media

• Al Rai, a Kuwaiti daily newspaper
• Al Rai TV, first privately-owned Kuwaiti satellite TV channel
• RAI, national public broadcasting company of Italy
• Rai Italia Radio, international broadcast radio service of Rai Internazionale
• Rai Südtirol (TV channel), a German language television channel
• Raï, folk music originating in Oran, Algeria and popular in France
• Rai (comics), fictional character in Valiant Comics
• Raï (1995 film), a 1995 French film directed by Thomas Gilou
• Rai (2016 film), Indian film about Muthappa Rai

Other

• Retailers Association of India, Indian trade association
• Rai stones, a kind of stone currency used in Yap, Caroline Islands
• Rai languages, a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
• Rai or Raai, the Hindi name for mustard seed
• Rai (Thai: ร่าย), a Thai poetic form used in laws and chronicles
• Reynolds American Inc., an American tobacco company

See also

• Raï (disambiguation)
• Rai Cultura (disambiguation)
• Rei (disambiguation)
• Ray (disambiguation)
• Rey (disambiguation)