sari

See also: Sari, sarí, sarī, sări, and sarı

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī), via Prakrit from Sanskrit षाटी (ṣāṭī).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː.ɹi/
• Homophone: sorry (father-bother merger)

Noun

sari (plural saris)

Woman in sari

1. The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head.

Translations

cloth

• Arabic: سَارِي‎‎ m (sārī)
• Bengali: শাড়ি (śaṛi)
• Burmese: ဆာရီ (my) (hcari)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 莎麗, 莎丽 (shālì)

• Esperanto: sario
• Finnish: sari (fi)
• French: sari (fr) m
• German: Sari (de) m
• Gujarati: સાડી m (sāḍī)
• Hindi: साड़ी (hi) f (sāṛī)
• Hungarian: szári (hu)
• Icelandic: sarí m
• Italian: sari m
• Japanese: サリー (ja) (sarī)

• Kannada: ಸೀರೆ (kn) (sīre)
• Korean: 사리 (ko) (sari)
• Malayalam: സാരി (ml) (sāri)
• Nepali: साडी (sāḍī), सारी (sārī)
• Oriya: ଶାଢୀ (sāddhi)
• Persian: ساری‎‎ (fa) (sâri), ساره‎‎ (fa) (sâre)
• Polish: sari (pl) n
• Portuguese: sari m
• Russian: са́ри (ru) n (sári)
• Sanskrit: षाटी f (ṣāṭī), शाटी (sa) f (śāṭī)
• Spanish: sari (es) m
• Swedish: sari (sv) c
• Tamil: புடவை (ta) (puṭavai)
• Telugu: చీర (te) (cīra)
• Urdu: ساڑی‎‎ f (sāṛī)

Anagrams

• RIAs, airs, aris, rais, rias, sira

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• sare

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sale, from Latin sāl, salem. Compare Romanian sare.

Noun

sari f

1. salt
2. (figuratively) character

Related terms

• ãnsar/nsar
• disar
• sãrãtor

• sãrãturã
• sãlãmurã
• sãrinji

See also

• piper

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Basque

Noun

sari

1. award

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Dupaningan Agta

Noun

sari

1. kind of spiny rattan

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Finnish

Noun

sari

1. sari (Indian piece of clothing)

Declension

Inflection of sari (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		sari	sarit
genitive		sarin	sarien
partitive		saria	sareja
illative		sariin	sareihin
		singular	plural
nominative		sari	sarit
accusative	nom.	sari	sarit
	gen.	sarin
genitive		sarin	sarien
partitive		saria	sareja
inessive		sarissa	sareissa
elative		sarista	sareista
illative		sariin	sareihin
adessive		sarilla	sareilla
ablative		sarilta	sareilta
allative		sarille	sareille
essive		sarina	sareina
translative		sariksi	sareiksi
instructive		—	sarein
abessive		saritta	sareitta
comitative		—	sareineen

Anagrams

• Arsi, rasi, risa

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Italian

Etymology

From Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī), via Prakrit from Sanskrit षाटी (ṣāṭī).

Noun

sari m (invariable)

1. sari

Anagrams

• arsi, rasi, risa

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Latin

Verb

sarī

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sariō

References

• sari in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sari in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary], Hachette

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Polish

Etymology

From Hindi

Noun

sari n (uninflected)

1. sari

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Portuguese

Noun

sari m (plural saris)

1. sari (traditional dress used in India)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī), from Sanskrit षाटी (ṣāṭī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɾi/
• Rhymes: -aɾi

Noun

sari m (plural saris)

1. sari

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

sari c

1. sari

Declension

Declension of sari
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sari	sarin	sarier	sarierna
Genitive	saris	sarins	sariers	sariernas

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Tagalog

Noun

sarì

1. species

Noun

sari

1. sari