a rag

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mare liquor, wine, alcoholic drink, liquor, spirits, arrack, spirit, brandy, arrack, usual barley-brandy [JV]

arrack, liquor, alcoholic drink [IW]

liquor, arrack, brandy, wine, alcoholic drink; wine, liquor, alcoholic drink, moonshine [RY]

1) alcohol, liquor; 2) alcoholic drinks, alcoholic beverages. Originally from Arabic عَرَق‎ (ʿaraq, 'perspiration'), this loanword is also found in Malaysian and Indonesian Malay (arak), Portuguese (áraque) and even sometimes in English (arrack, araq), where as in Tibetan it means alcoholic beverages generally, or more specifically an alcoholic beverage usually made from fermenting rice or rice wine, or else an aniseed-flavored alcoholic drink, which is a clear, unsweetened and produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East. In modern Tibetan a rag usually refers to alcohol in general, but in particular "hard alcohols", but is typically used less as a description for beer or chang in particular. Erick Tsiknopoulos