English Online Dictionary. What means sarah? What does sarah mean?
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
- a shallow or calm part of a river
- 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
- (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)
- 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)
- Synonym of peti (“chest”)
- 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
- 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)
- (Pontianak) cupboard, wardrobe
- Synonym: almari
Old Javanese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sarah/
- Rhymes: -arah
- Hyphenation: sa‧rah
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Noun
sarah
- flotsam
Derived terms
Descendants
- > Javanese: ꦱꦫꦃ (sarah) (inherited) (see there for further descendants)
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Conjunction
sarah
- 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.