raga

Borrowed from Sanskrit राग (rāga, “dye, colour”).

• Rhymes: -ɑːɡə

raga (plural ragas)

1. (music) Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 72:

     ‘The song is composed in a raga appropriate to the present hour, which is the evening.’

2. Passion, love, lust.
   • 2009, Jennifer Schwamm Willis, The Joy of Yoga, →ISBN:

     The conditions of asmita, raga, dvesha, and abhinivesha have a physical basis: they function to inhibit the normal pulsatory rhythms of the physical body.

   • 2009, Swami Ambikananda Saraswati, Healing Yoga, →ISBN, page 18:

     We get tired of the slipping and sliding between raga and dvesha and we seek something more permanent - so instead of looking outward we begin to look inward. This is Yoga - the heart of Yoga.

   • 2010, Chogyam Trungpa, The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, →ISBN:

     In order to increase security, desire (raga, trishna, lobha) appears in all its forms, and one accumulates more and more of that which establishes one's position in samsara.

   • 2012, Swami Rama, Sadhana: The Path to Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 80:

     Raga and dvesha, attachment and hatred, are two sides of the same coin.

• raga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Agra, agar, agra, raag

raga (plural raga-raga, first-person possessive ragaku, second-person possessive ragamu, third-person possessive raganya)

1. basket
2. ball (for sports)

From Pali राग (“attachment, lust”), from Sanskrit राग (rāga, “passion, desire”).

• IPA^(key): /ra.ɡa/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ga

raga

1. body

• badan
• tubuh

From Dayak.

• IPA^(key): /ra.ɡa/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ga

raga

1. slice

• potongan

• “raga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

raga m (genitive singular raga, nominative plural ragaí)

1. worthless person or thing
2. worthlessness, dissipation

• dul chun raga (“to go to the bad”)

From English, from Sanskrit.

raga m (genitive singular raga, nominative plural ragaí)

1. (music) raga

• "raga" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “raga” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Clipping of ragazzi (“guys”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ɡa/, [ˈräːɡä]
• Rhymes: -aɡa

raga m pl (plural only)

1. (slang, colloquial) A form of address for a group of persons of either gender; guys.

   Ehi raga, andiamo in spiaggia oggi? ― Hey guys, wanna go to the beach today?

raga m

1. genitive singular form of rags

• IPA^(key): /râɡa/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ga

rȁga f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏га)

1. old horse, nag

raga (n class, plural raga)

1. rugby (a sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball)

Compare Old Norse ráfa (“waver, go with staggering gait,”) English rove.

raga

1. To stagger.

• rangäl
• rega
• vangäl

raga m

1. A tall and narrow tree sapling.
2. A sloping dried-up tree.