What is the meaning of the word Asawari apart from it being a raga?

Asawari is full of renunciation and sacrifice..

Asawari is one of the ten basic music thaats..

The tune of seven ascending and descending notes is called 'Thaat'. A system created by Pandit Bhatkande in the 1920's in order to classify all raagas into one of ten parent scales. Although flawed in certain respects the system acts as a good starting point for learning raagas containing varying notes.

A Thaat must have seven notes out of the twelve notes [Seven Shuddha, Four komal (Re, Ga, Dha , Ni), one teevra (Ma) ], placed in an ascending order. Both the forms of the notes can be used.

Thaat has only an Aaroha

Thaats are not sung but the raags produced from the Thaats are sung.

Thaats are named after the popular Raaga of that Thaat.

Raag Asavari

Asawari? SRMPdS SndPMgRS with Pakar: RMP, ndP.

Morning raga hey, I like Prabhat Bhairav

SS-rrS-G-m-PPdd-NS

SNdP-mG-rG-mM-GmG-rS

pretty stuff. (I studied N. Indian music for 3 years in San Rafael CA, and loved it)

Anyways, your answer:

असावरी asāwarī, and āsāwarī, s.f. Name of a rāginī or musical mode; a kind of tune;--a kind of pigeon;--a kind of silken and silver cloth.

Jaunpuri and Darbari Kanada