serang
English
Noun
serang (plural serangs)
- (India, now historical) A native Indian boatswain; a lascar captain.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p.14:
- The discovery that the substance in his mouth was of vegetable origin came as no great reassurance to Zachary: once, when the serang spat a stream of blood-red juice over the rail, he noticed the water below coming alive with the thrashing of shark's fins.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p.14:
Indonesian
Noun
serang (plural serang-serang, first-person possessive serangku, second-person possessive serangmu, third-person possessive serangnya)
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