The journey of a word through time

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So...i quite don't know what I am gonna do here; those with more sophisticated ideas than me might call it something like a critical analysis of metaphorical meanings of a word; but I am just gonna call it translating loosely to farm some likes.

We have this word in my language, rasa. It means juice.
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You must be thinking,
"Hey! That's not rasa! It's ras!"
Yeah, google doesn't know how to spell. It's spelled as rasa.

It also means pulp, kinda.
And since pulp is the center of a fruit, its also called root. Root as in both, the root of a tree and the root of a problem.

And I guess with the same logic, rasa also means life.

Now, rasa can also be inferred to be enjoyment. Well, makes sense, juice brings joy.
A bit more loose translation, and rasa also means emotions.

And not just happy emotions, rasa can mean any emotion, but it strongly used for showing aggression. The type of agression which makes you shout your warcry.

That brings a question,
Why do we shout a warcry?
Shouldn't we...like....cry the warcry?
Or I guess it has the word cry in it, so I suppose we should just do it? Like,
"I warcried."

Anyhow, rasa also refers to all the worldly desires.
That includes money, property, hair, lust, etc.
Yeah, hair too.
So, special focus over lust part, it isn't the creepy lust, its the more romantic type of lust here,
I am not saying
"Mmmmmm, that body, I am gonna have 'juicy' thoughts about that."
No, no, that's too weird, what I want to say is something like,
Mmmmmm, that body, its so juicy, I want to eat your hair. And sniff your stomach too.

Alright, that last part was weird, I admit, but how else ancient authors are supposed to convey lewd things happened, with also, you know, maintaining their dignity as a non smut writer.

Alright, coming back to the pulp part.
So, rasa means pulp, which can also be called tang.

Now, I am gonna be honest with you, I have literally, and quite seriously, never ever in my entire life, with a single exception of now, have I ever written the word 'tang'.
My statistics on the word tang are
Read:1
Written:1
Said: Many times if you are talking about the drink mix company, 'Tang', but never if we are talking about its definition, which is
[a sharp distinctive often lingering flavor]
So, yeah, that was the first time I wrote it.
I read it for the first and the only time in Ruskin Bond's story, The Cherry Tree, which I read when I was in 6th grade or something.
I guess the fact that its the same name as a multinational company made me remember it.

Yeah, so, that tang thing.
What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of tang?
Imagine inserting your teeth into a juicy mango, and the sourness travels through your entire face, making you go (>.<).
Makes you drool, huh?
You want to smack your lips too, huh?
You want to cup your face with your hand and breath warmly on the mango, closing your eyes as you take another bite of delight, huh?
Yeah, so
Rasa also means the creepy kind of lust.
This is the kind of lust where you go,
"Woo hoo, that's some great booty."
Yeah, you smack your lips, wink, and hope your mating dance manages to impress others.
So, uhh, this rasa doesn't have much practical use, mostly because I don't read books which would ever require usage of this book.
But still, it has its use in romance, this is used when your partner is so sexy, you melt, and your tongue is just violently travelling all over them, and your eyes are doing gymnastics in your skull.

Another word, we have, is rasssssssssssss.
As you saw from the spelling, this is not exactly a proper word, but more like a dialect. You basically just say rasa while cosplaying as a snake girl.
Ah, but don't worry, this word doesn't mean lust.
Oh no,
It means sexy body parts,
Or would it be body's sexy parts?
It refers to a person's....how should I say this in a way to keep this family friendly...a person's body parts that you especially want to eat.
Yeah, so, practical uses, this is used when you want to eat someone's chest, or hips. Its mainly used for only those parts.

Ah, coming back to the worldly desire thing, by the same logic, eyes are also rasa.
Yeah, its because of how eyes let you see this wonderful world God created for us in all its beauty.

And, that's all I know. There must be more 'loose translations' of this word, but these are all that came to my mind.

I just have 1 request, to whoever this concerns(probably God). This isn't real yet, but I would like it to be real.
You know how juice is all sticky? Like, if some gets in you, it is so gross?
Well, could it be possible, that, you know, there is a slim chance that in future, rasa could mean disease?
Like, if I say,
"Damn, you looking real juicy today."
I want that person to think, to apply his mind, and to repeat my words over and over, wondering, and pondering if I was saying that he is looking ill, or sexy?

The most interesting part about this was of course, the lust part. Not because of obvious reasons, but because if how it converges so many times.
If this word was a river, it diverged serveral times, into many branches, many smaller streams.
And yet, some of these streams, despite having different parent stream, managed to converge back together.
Wow.

PS:
While taking that screen shot of translation of rasa, I found several other meanings.
Rasa also means
Liquid
Extract
Sap
Medicine
Ice
Gravy
Savour

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Comments

    1. Agentt Sep 18, 2021
      @Kaylee
      Oh my, what a coincidence, I wonder how it traveled there
    2. Kaylee Sep 18, 2021
      Interestingly, rasa is flavor or feeling in my language.
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    3. Zissel Sep 17, 2021
      Pfft~:blobhug::blobhug: Good night, son~ :blobcozy::blobcozy::blobcozy:
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    4. Agentt Sep 17, 2021
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    5. Zissel Sep 17, 2021
      Har har~ You better not say that to me coz' I'll start arguing with you fr :blobxd::blobxd::blobexpressionless::blobexpressionless::blobangery::blobangery:
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    6. Agentt Sep 17, 2021
      @samia zahin
      We folks here often joke about how your language is just our language, but with a turned to o
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    7. Zissel Sep 17, 2021
      This is really long......... Sorry,, my almost ded brain isn't able to take in all that you've said. I'll prolly come back and re-read it later.
      But I got the first few lines, and I gotta say, it's quite a coincidence! My language has a quite similar word for pulp or juice. It's "rosh" The "O" is pronounced as "au" tho
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