sarah

sarah

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Acehnese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sarah/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

sarah

  1. a shallow or calm part of a river
  2. rapids

Etymology 2

From Arabic عَصَب (ʕaṣab, nerve) or شَرَف (šaraf, elevated place; eminence, dignity; honour), or a borrowing from Indonesian Indonesian saraf.

Noun

sarah

  1. (anatomy) veins

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈsarah/ [ˈsa.rah]
  • Rhymes: -arah
  • Syllabification: sa‧rah

Etymology 1

From Javanese ꦱꦫꦃ (sarah, floatsam; (dialect) abandoned corpse), from Old Javanese sarah (flotsam).

Noun

sarah (countable and uncountable, plural sarah-sarah)

  1. flotsam (debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay sarah, specifically the Riau dialect.

Noun

sarah (plural sarah-sarah) (dialectal)

  1. Synonym of peti (chest)
  2. Synonym of tong (barrel)

Further reading

  • “sarah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

sarah

  1. Romanization of ꦱꦫꦃ

Malay

Etymology

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

Noun

sarah (plural sarah-sarah, informal 1st possessive sarahku, 2nd possessive sarahmu, 3rd possessive sarahnya)

  1. (Pontianak) cupboard, wardrobe
    Synonym: almari

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sarah/
  • Rhymes: -arah
  • Hyphenation: sa‧rah

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

sarah

  1. flotsam
Derived terms
Descendants
  • > Javanese: ꦱꦫꦃ (sarah) (inherited) (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Conjunction

sarah

  1. every kind of, in every respect

Further reading

  • "sarah" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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