sarong

English

WOTD – 23 August 2010

Sri Lankan man wearing a sarong.

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɑŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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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.
   • 2025 May 2, Zoe Williams, Sarah Gilbert, “David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     [David] Beckham donning a sarong was taken as incontrovertible proof that Posh had somehow managed to steal him from the world of men, by witchcraft. It is absolutely impossible to overestimate how upset people were by sarong-gate, particularly the tabloid media. The Sun ran the pic with the headline: “Beckham has got his Posh frock on.”

Synonyms

• (garment): lungi

Derived terms

• sarong party

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, saronki
• French: sarong (fr) m, pagne (fr) m
• German: Sarong (de) m
• Hindi: सारोंग (sāroṅg)
• Indonesian: sarung (id)
• Japanese: サロン (ja) (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: sarung
• Tamil: சாரம் (ta) (cāram)
• Thai: โสร่ง (th) (sà-ròong)
• Vietnamese: xà rông (vi)

Anagrams

• argons, rangos, Sargon, Rogans, groans, Organs, Garson, nagors, organs, Ragons, Garons, rags on, granos, orangs

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

sarong (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

Cebuano

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong

1. a sarong

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch saroeng, from Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁɔ̃ɡ/

• Audio:

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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

Garo

Etymology

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Noun

sarong

1. small waterpot

Karao

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong

1. blanket worn by women in traditional dancing

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	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sarong	sarongul		saronguri	sarongurile
genitive-dative	sarong	sarongului		saronguri	sarongurilor
vocative	sarongule			sarongurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch saroeng, Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong m (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

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^[2], Pacific linguistics (as saroŋ)