raion

• rayon, rajon

From Russian райо́н (rajón), archaic райо́нъ (rajón), from French rayon (“honeycomb, department”). More recently influenced by the same name used in other post-Soviet states. Compare Ukrainian райо́н (rajón).

raion (plural raions)

1. An administrative unit of some Eastern European and Asian states.
   • 2000, Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, p 119:

     Suffice it to mention that several thousand raion papers were replaced by “territorial administrations” organs, and that all transport papers were closed.

The term describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district". A raion is usually an entity two steps below the national level.

• Arion, Irano-, Riano, noria, oiran, on air, on-air

raion

1. Rōmaji transcription of ライオン
2. Rōmaji transcription of らいおん

• region

Ultimately from Latin regiō.

raion m (plural raions)

1. region

Borrowed from Russian район (rajon).

raion n (plural raioane)

1. raion (administrative unit)