sarung

sarung (plural sarungs)

1. Alternative form of sarong.

• sungar

Borrowed from Old Javanese saruṅ (“sarong”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saruŋ (“sheath, sheath-like container; to sheathe a weapon”). Doublet of saung (“sarong, sheath”).

• IPA^(key): /sarʊŋ/
• Rhymes: -arʊŋ
• Hyphenation: sa‧rung

sarung (Balinese script ᬲᬭᬸᬂ)

1. sarong (garment made of batik or ikat cloth wrapped about the waist)
2. sheath (sheath for traditional Balinese weapon (usually kris, etc.))

• “sarung” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Inherited from Malay sarung, from Proto-Malayic *saruŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saruŋ (“sheath, sheath-like container; to sheathe a weapon”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaruŋ/ [ˈsa.rʊŋ]
• Rhymes: -aruŋ
• Syllabification: sa‧rung

sarung (plural sarung-sarung)

1. sarong (garment made of printed cloth wrapped about the waist)
2. sheath (tight-fitting dress)
3. (slang, prostitution) condom

   Synonym: kondom

sarung (active menyarung, passive disarung)

1. to sheathe

   Synonym: sarungkan

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*saruŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “sarung” 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.

sarung

1. romanization of ꦱꦫꦸꦁ

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saruŋ (“sheath, sheath-like container; to sheathe a weapon”). Cognate with Javanese ꦱꦫꦸꦁ (sarung).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /saroŋ/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /sarʊŋ/
• Rhymes: -aroŋ, -roŋ, -oŋ

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sarung (Jawi spelling ساروڠ, plural sarung-sarung)

1. any kind of sheath or covering
   1. scabbard (of a bladed weapon); holster (of a gun),
   2. sarong (garment made of printed cloth wrapped about the waist); usually ellipsis of kain sarung

menyarungkan

1. to put on (of clothes, rings etc)

• > Indonesian: sarung (inherited)
• → Afrikaans: sarong
• Chinese:
  • → Cantonese: 紗籠 / 纱笼 (saa¹ lung⁴)
  • → Hakka: 紗籠 / 纱笼 (sa¹ long⁵)
  • → Min Nan: 紗籠 / 纱笼 (sa-lông)
  • → Mandarin: 紗籠 / 纱笼 (shālóng)
  • → Teochew: 紗籠 / 纱笼 (sa¹ long⁵)
• → Burmese: သားလှောင် (sa:hlaung)
• → Cebuano: sarong
• → Dutch: saroeng
  • → French: sarong
    • → Romanian: sarong
  • → Spanish: sarong
• → English: sarong
• → Karao: sarong

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*saruŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “سارڠ saroeng”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 15
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “سارڠ sarong”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 360
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “sarong”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 390

• “sarung” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saruŋ (“sheath, sheath-like container; to sheathe a weapon”). Cognate with Javanese ꦱꦫꦸꦁ (sarung).

• IPA^(key): /sarʊŋ/
• Rhymes: -arʊŋ, -rʊŋ, -ʊŋ

sarung (Sundanese script ᮞᮛᮥᮀ)

1. sarong (garment made of batik or ikat cloth wrapped about the waist)
2. sheath (sheath for traditional Sundanese weapon (usually kujang, kris, etc.))