sarong

sarong

English

WOTD – 23 August 2010

Sri Lankan man wearing a sarong.

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɒŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɔːŋ/, /səˈɹɑŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Noun

sarong (plural sarongs)

1. A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands.

Synonyms

• (garment): lungi

Translations

garment made of printed cloth wrapped about the waist

Afrikaans: sarong Arabic: صَارُون‎ m (ṣārūn) Balinese: ᬲᬭᬸᬂ (sarung) Burmese: ထဘီ (my) (hta.bhi) Chinese: Mandarin: 紗籠／纱笼 (zh) (shālóng) Esperanto: sarongjupo Estonian: sarong Finnish: sarong French: sarong (fr) m, pagne (fr) m German: Sarong m Hindi: सारोंग (sāroṅg) Indonesian: sarung (id) Japanese: サロン (saron) Javanese: ꦱꦫꦸꦁ (jv) (sarung) Korean: 사롱 (sarong) Malay: sarung (ms) Norwegian: sarong m Portuguese: sarongue (pt) m Russian: саро́нг (ru) m (saróng), сару́нг m (sarúng) Sinhalese: සරම (si) (sarama) Spanish: sarong m, pareo (es) m Sundanese: ᮞᮛᮥᮀ (sarung) Tamil: சாரம் (ta) (cāram) Thai: โสร่ง (th) (sà-ròong) Vietnamese: xà rông (vi)

Anagrams

• Garons, Garson, Ragons, Rogans, Sargon, argons, groans, nagors, orangs, organs, rangos

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sarong (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong

1. a sarong

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch saroeng, from Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁɔ̃ɡ/

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Noun

sarong m (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

Descendants

• → Romanian: sarong

Further reading

• “sarong”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• garons, rognas

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Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sarong

1. small waterpot

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Karao

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong

1. blanket worn by women in traditional dancing

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sarong, from Dutch saroeng, from Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong n (plural saronguri)

1. sarong

Declension

Declension of sarong

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sarong	sarongul	(niște) saronguri	sarongurile
genitive/dative	(unui) sarong	sarongului	(unor) saronguri	sarongurilor
vocative	sarongule		sarongurilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch saroeng, Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong m (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

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West Makian

Etymology

From Indonesian sarung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪a.roŋ/

Noun

sarong

1. a sheath, covering

   peda da sarong ― machete sheath

References

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics (as saroŋ)