sarah

• IPA^(key): /sarah/

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sarah

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

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

sarah

1. (anatomy) veins

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

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

sarah (countable and uncountable, plural sarah-sarah)

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

Borrowed from Malay sarah, specifically the Riau dialect.

sarah (plural sarah-sarah) (dialectal)

1. synonym of peti (“chest”)
2. synonym of tong (“barrel”)

• “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.

sarah

1. romanization of ꦱꦫꦃ

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sarah (plural sarah-sarah)

1. (Pontianak) cupboard, wardrobe

   Synonym: almari

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

Unknown.

sarah

1. flotsam

• > Javanese: ꦱꦫꦃ (sarah) (inherited) (see there for further descendants)

Unknown.

sarah

1. every kind of, in every respect

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