sarong

English

WOTD – 23 August 2010

Sri Lankan man wearing a sarong.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈɹɒŋ/
• 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 Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, and the Pacific islands.

Synonyms

• (garment): lungi

Translations

garment made of printed cloth wrapped about the waist

• Afrikaans: sarong
• Arabic: صَارُون m (ṣārūn)
• Burmese: ထဘီ (my) (hta.bhi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紗籠／纱笼 (zh) (shālóng), 纱笼 (zh) (shālóng)

• Esperanto: sarongjupo
• Estonian: sarong
• Finnish: sarong
• French: sarong (fr) m, pagne (fr) m
• German: Sarong m
• Hindi: सारोंग (sāroṅg)
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• Indonesian: sarung (id)
• Japanese: サロン (saron)
• 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
• Thai: โสร่ง (th) (sà-ròong)
• Vietnamese: xà rông

Anagrams

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

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

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Cebuano

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong

1. a sarong

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁɔ̃ɡ/

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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Karao

Noun

sarong

1. blanket worn by women in traditional dancing

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Spanish

Noun

sarong m (plural sarongs)

1. sarong