Reich

Etymology
From Reich:.

Noun
Reich


 * 1) The territory of a German empire or nation, or its government.
 * 2) * 1762, A. F. Busching, A New System of Geography, volume 4, containing, Part of Germany, viz. Bohemia, Moravia, Lusatia, Austria, Burgundy, Westphalia, and the Circle of the Rhine, translated from German, page 4:
 * The Empire is differently denominated as well by Germans themselves as by others. It is called the Reich, in Latin Regnum, by way of eminence, also the German Reich, in Latin Regnum Germanicum. The appellation of Germany, is seldom used now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.

Translations

 * Arabic: إمبراطورية (empire), رايش
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:,  (empire)
 * Dutch:, Rijk
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: birodalom


 * Japanese: ライヒ,
 * Polish: rzesza,
 * Russian: рейх (more common), райх,
 * Serbian: Рајх, Царство,  Империја
 * Swedish:, Riket

Related terms

 * First Reich
 * Second Reich
 * Third Reich

Anagrams

 * Cheri

Etymology
From rihhi:, from, itself either a substantivised  (whence also German reich:), or a direct borrowing from a  language; compare Middle  ríge:.

Cognates include Old English rice:, rige:,  rijk:,  rike: and Icelandic ríki:.

Noun

 * 1) empire or significant State
 * 2) realm (also e.g. of plants)

Proper noun

 * 1) the Second Reich (until 1918)
 * 2) the Third Reich (1933 to 1945)
 * Heim ins Reich - Nazi phrase implying to re-attach invaded countries to a notion of an ur-empire.
 * 1) a family name