sarong

Borrowed from Malay sarung.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɑŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

sarong (plural sarongs)

1. A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands.
   • 2025 May 2, Zoe Williams, Sarah Gilbert, “David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     [David] Beckham donning a sarong was taken as incontrovertible proof that Posh had somehow managed to steal him from the world of men, by witchcraft. It is absolutely impossible to overestimate how upset people were by sarong-gate, particularly the tabloid media. The Sun ran the pic with the headline: “Beckham has got his Posh frock on.”

• (garment): lungi

• sarong party

• argons, rangos, Sargon, Rogans, groans, Organs, Garson, nagors, organs, Ragons, Garons, rags on, granos, orangs

From Malay sarung.

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sarong (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

From Malay sarung.

sarong

1. a sarong

Borrowed from Dutch saroeng, from Malay sarung.

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁɔ̃ɡ/

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sarong m (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

• → Romanian: sarong

• “sarong”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• garons, rognas

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sarong

1. small waterpot

From Malay sarung.

sarong

1. blanket worn by women in traditional dancing

Borrowed from French sarong, from Dutch saroeng, from Malay sarung.

sarong n (plural saronguri)

1. sarong

Borrowed from Dutch saroeng, Malay sarung.

sarong m (plural sarongs)

1. sarong

From Indonesian sarung.

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪a.roŋ/

sarong

1. a sheath, covering

   peda da sarong ― machete sheath

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[2], Pacific linguistics (as saroŋ)