Sarawak
English
Etymology
From Malay Sarawak.
Pronunciation
- (Malaysia) IPA(key): /saraˈwak/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsæɹəwæk/, /ˈsɑːɹəwæk/, /səˈrɑːwək/
Audio (Hampshire, England) (file)
Proper noun
Sarawak
- A state in eastern Malaysia. Capital: Kuching.
- 1972, FitzGerald, C. P., The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean", London: Barrie & Jenkins, →ISBN, OCLC 695393553, OL 5335141M, page 189:
- In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.
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Derived terms
- Sarawak dolphin
- Sarawakian
- sarawakite
Translations
state in Malaysia
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Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay Sarawak, from Sarawak Malay serawak (“antimony”). Doublet of serawak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Standard) /saˈrawaʔ/, /səˈrawaʔ/
Proper noun
Sarawak
- Sarawak (state in Malaysia)
Malay
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sarawaʔ/
- Rhymes: -awaʔ, -waʔ, -aʔ
Proper noun
Sarawak (Jawi spelling سراوق)
- Sarawak (state in Malaysia)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay Sarawak.
Proper noun
Sarawak m
- Sarawak (a state of Malaysia)