saru

See also: Saru, säru, and saRu

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Old Turkic çaruk, Turkish çarık (“sandal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɒru]
• Hyphenation: sa‧ru
• Rhymes: -ru

Noun

saru (plural saruk)

1. (toe post) sandal, thong, flip-flop
2. (engineering) shoe (a plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	saru	saruk
accusative	sarut	sarukat
dative	sarunak	saruknak
instrumental	saruval	sarukkal
causal-final	saruért	sarukért
translative	saruvá	sarukká
terminative	saruig	sarukig
essive-formal	saruként	sarukként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	saruban	sarukban
superessive	sarun	sarukon
adessive	sarunál	saruknál
illative	saruba	sarukba
sublative	sarura	sarukra
allative	saruhoz	sarukhoz
elative	saruból	sarukból
delative	saruról	sarukról
ablative	sarutól	saruktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	sarué	saruké
non-attributive possessive – plural	saruéi	sarukéi

Possessive forms of saru

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	sarum	saruim
2nd person sing.	sarud	saruid
3rd person sing.	saruja	sarui
1st person plural	sarunk	saruink
2nd person plural	sarutok	saruitok
3rd person plural	sarujuk	saruik

Derived terms

• sarus

Further reading

• saru in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsaru]
• Hyphenation: sa‧ru

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay saru.

Adjective

saru (comparative lebih saru, superlative paling saru)

1. unclear, uncertain

   Synonym: samar

Derived terms

• menyaru
• menyarukan
• penyaru
• penyaruan

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦫꦸ (saru).

Adjective

saru (comparative lebih saru, superlative paling saru)

1. (dialect, Java) indecent, improper, unbecoming, annoying

   Antonyms: patut, semenggah, senonoh

Etymology 3

From Malay saru, from Arabic سَرْو (sarw, “cypress”).

Noun

saru (plural saru-saru)

1. (archaic) cypress, pine

   Antonyms: cemara, eru

Etymology 4

Noun

saru (uncountable)

1. alternative form of seru (“to shout”)

Further reading

• “saru”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Romanization

saru

1. Rōmaji transcription of さる

Javanese

Romanization

saru

1. romanization of ꦱꦫꦸ

Sonsorolese

Noun

saru

1. water

References

• Sonsorolese language, sur sonsorol.com

Tataltepec Chatino

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sábado.

Noun

saru

1. Saturday

References

• Pride, Leslie; Pride, Kitty (1970), Vocabulario chatino de Tataltepec. Castellano-chatino, chatino-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 15)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 36

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.ɾu]

Noun

saru

1. the floor

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh