a rag

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]

Alcohol, liquor. Originally from Arabic عَرَق‎ (ʿaraq), this loanword is also found in Malay (arak), Indonesian (arak), Portuguese (araque) and even English, where it means beer, an alcoholic beverage usually made from fermenting rice or rice wine, a Middle Eastern aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink. [Erick Tsiknopoulos]