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rasa

noun

rasa is a noun meaning “An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-S-A, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rasa is rasas.

What does rasa mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of rasa

  • rasas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is rasa?

Rasa appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does rasa come from?

Transliteration of Sanskrit रस (rasa, literally “juice; essence”). Doublet of rasam.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).