raga

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

• Rhymes: -ɑːɡə

raga (countable and uncountable, plural ragas)

1. (countable, music) Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.

   Coordinate term: ragini

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 72:

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

2. (uncountable) 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

• raag, agar, agra, Agra, Agar, Gara

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

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

raga (Balinese script ᬭᬕ)

1. body

raga (Balinese script ᬭᬕ)

1. first person pronoun
2. second person pronoun

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

raga (Balinese script ᬭᬵᬕ)

1. lust, love

• “raga” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈraɡa/ [ˈra.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: ra‧ga

Inherited from Malay raga, from Classical Malay raga (“body”), from Javanese ꦫꦒ (raga), from Old Javanese rāga (“body, lust”), from Pali राग (rāga, “attachment, lust”), from Sanskrit राग (rāga, “passion, desire”). Doublet of ragi and ragam.

raga (plural raga-raga)

1. body; physique

   Synonyms: jasmani, fisik, badan, tubuh

   jiwa raga; jiwa dan raga ― body and soul

Inherited from Malay raga (“basket”), from Old Javanese raga (“woven basket, wicker basket”).

raga (plural raga-raga)

1. basket

Inherited from Malay raga (“rattan ball”)

raga (plural raga-raga)

1. rattan ball (for sports)

From Dayak

raga (plural raga-raga)

1. meat cut

• “raga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

ragâ

1. soil; earth
2. land

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈɾˠɑɡə/^[1]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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 raga, from Sanskrit राग (rāga).

raga m (genitive singular raga, nominative plural ragaí)

1. (music) raga

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “raga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “raga”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: rà‧ga

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

raga f (invariable)

1. (music) raga (melodic mode used in Indian classical music)

Clipping of ragazzi (“guys”) or ragazze (“girls”).

• ragà

raga m pl (plural only)

1. (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?

Clipping of ragamuffin (“ragga”)

raga m (uncountable)

1. (music) ragga

• raga in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

• Agar, agra, gara

raga

1. romanization of ꦫꦒ

raga m

1. genitive singular of rags

Unknown, probably inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laja (“to plait, weave by hand, of baskets or mats”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ra.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɡa
• Homophone: rāga
• Hyphenation: ra‧ga

raga

1. woven basket, wicker basket

• > Javanese: ꦫꦒ (raga) (inherited)
• → Malay: raga
  • > Indonesian: raga (inherited)

• "raga" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

• arga — without metathesis

raga

1. strong feminine accusative singular of ragr
2. strong masculine accusative plural of ragr
3. weak masculine oblique singular of ragr
4. weak feminine nominative singular of ragr
5. weak neuter singular of ragr

-raga (infinitive kuraga, perfective -raze)

1. bequeath, give an inheritance

• umurage (Rwanda) / iragi (Rundi)

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

rȁga f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏га)

1. old horse, nag

-raga^?

1. to drive (cattle)

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raga class IX (plural raga class X)

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

   Synonym: gori

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾa.ɡa]

raga

1. (intransitive) to open the hand

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh