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राग rāg, s.m. Colour, hue, tint, dye; mental affection, emotion, feeling, passion, love, affection, desire; joy; sorrow; anger, etc.;—a musical mode (six primary modes are enumerated, viz. Bhairav, Mālav, Sārang, Hinḍol, Vasant, and Dīpak or Megh);—music, Harmony, melody, vocal music, song, tune, air:—rāg pūrnā, To sing a long ditty, tell a long story:—rāg-ćūṇ(S. rāga-ćūrṇa), s.m. The tree Acocia catechu (which yields an astringent resin, and the wood of which is used in dyeing):—rāg-ćhānā, To be in concert:—rāgdveś, s.m. Love and hatred, affection and enmity:—rāg-rang, rāg-o-rang, and rāgraliyāṅ, s.m. Music and merriment, song and mirth, merry-making, revelry, festivities, amusements, fun and frolic:—rāg-sāgar, s.m. A song composed of many rāgsor musical modes:—rāg gānā, To sing a song; to sing (one's own) song, tell (one's own) story (apnābeing expressed, e.g. apnārāg gāte ho):—rāg-lānā(-meṅ), 'To bring or introduce music or song'; (fig.), to cause a quarrel:—rāgmālā, s.f. Name of a treatise on music (it is merely a collection of pictures exhibiting the traditional history of the primary and subordinate modes, and the subjects appropriated to each):—rāg-o-rang, s.m.=rāgrang, q.v.