राग راگ ♣ Eng. lac, lake

राग راگ ♣ Eng. lac, lake

[rāg], m. a melody, a mode in music.

[←OIA rā́ga- m. ‘colour, redness’ MBh. <√rañj ‘dye’ ◀PIE *reg- (and sreg-?) ‘to colour, paint, dye’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. lac, lake, regolith ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0582; (Turner, 1966) 10673, p.612; (MW, 1899) 0872, 0861; (Pokorny, 1959) 0854; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.424