sarong

English

WOTD – 23 August 2010

Sri Lankan man wearing a sarong.

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɒŋ/
(US) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɔːŋ/, /səˈɹɑŋ/
Audio (US) (file)
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Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Noun

sarong (plural sarongs)

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 (zh), 纱笼 (zh) (shālóng)
Esperanto: sarongjupo
Estonian: sarong
Finnish: sarong
French: sarong (fr) m, pagne (fr) m
German: Sarong m
Hindi: सारोंग (sāroṅg)

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong (plural sarongs)

sarong

Cebuano

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Noun

sarong

a sarong

French

Etymology

From Malay sarung.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sa.ʁɔ̃ɡ/

Noun

sarong m (plural sarongs)

sarong

Descendants

→ Romanian: sarong

Further reading

“sarong” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

garons, rognas

Spanish

Noun

sarong m (plural sarongs)

sarong

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