Rakhaing
/rəˈkaɪŋ/noun
An alternative English transliteration for Rakhine, referring to the Rakhine people, language, or region of western Myanmar.
Did you know?Rakhaing is one of several English renderings of the Burmese name ရခိုင်, while forms such as Arakan and Rakhine arose through different historical transliteration traditions.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-modern period
Burmese
ရခိုင်
“The Burmese name for the Rakhine people, language, and their western Myanmar homeland.”
Medieval period
Bengali/Persian records
Arakan
“A historical foreign name for the coastal kingdom and region now generally called Rakhine.”
16th–18th Century
European records
Aracan / Arracan
“European spellings derived through South Asian and regional forms of the place-name.”
19th Century
English
Arakanese
“English adjective and noun referring to the people or language of Arakan.”
20th Century
English
Rakhine / Rakhaing
“Modern transliterations increasingly based on the Burmese form ရခိုင်; the exact older etymology remains disputed.”