sara

• IPA^(key): /ˈsara/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra

sára m

1. plural of saró

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “saro”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 33

• sar (apocopic)
• サㇻ (apocopic)
• saraha
• サラハ

Possibly cognate to Proto-Japonic *siri, *sari (“buttocks”).

• IPA^(key): /sàꜛɾá/

sara (Kana spelling サラ)

1. tail

• saro (“monkey”)

From Spanish cerrar, compare Cebuano sira.

sara

1. to close; to shut

sara

1. Romanization of ᬲᬭ
2. Romanization of ᬲᬵᬭ
3. Romanization of ᬰᬭ

• IPA^(key):

sara

1. charm (object with magic powers)

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

sara

1. today; the current day or date

sara

1. today; on the current day or date

From Proto-Mongolic *sara, compare Mongolian сар (sar) and Dongxiang sara. In the Dahejia subdialect of Gansu Bonan, the final vowel shows a reduction /a/ > /ə/. ^[1]

• IPA^(key): /saˈra/, /saˈrə/

sara

1. (Gansu, Qinghai) moon

   Coordinate term: narang (“sun”)

• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 483

From Proto-Mongolic *sara more distantly related to Khitan 賽咿児 (sair). Cognate with Mongolian сар (sar).

• IPA^(key): /sɑˈrɑ/

sara

1. moon

   Coordinate term: naran (“sun”)

From Russian сарай (saraj).

sara (genitive sara, partitive sara)

1. shed (small wooden construction)

• sara in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• “sara”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

sara

1. very, exceedingly (after adjectives)
2. immediately, directly (after verbs)
3. quite, wholly, entirely

From Proto-Finnic *sara (compare Karelian sara, Ludian sara, Veps šarahin), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *staraz (compare Swedish starr).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑrɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): sa‧ra

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sara

1. sedge (any plant of the genus Carex)

• “sara”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• IPA^(key): /sàː.ɽáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

sā̀rā f (possessed form sā̀rar̃)

1. habit, practice, way, custom
2. argot, jargon

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 179.

sár (“mud”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra

sara

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of sár

From Sanskrit सार (sāra, “energy, extract, essence, substance”). Doublet of sari.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra

sara (first-person possessive saraku, second-person possessive saramu, third-person possessive saranya)

1. life support, sustenance, subsistence
2. subsistence money.

   Synonym: uang sara

• “sara” 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠaɾˠə/

sara

1. Alternative form of sula

sara

1. Rōmaji transcription of さら
2. Rōmaji transcription of サラ

sara

1. Romanization of ꦱꦫ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salaq.

sara

1. fault; sin

• IPA^(key): /sa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Homophones: sāra, śara
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra

Borrowed from Pali sara, saras (“lake”), from Sanskrit सरस् (saras, “pond, lake, water”).

sara

1. pond
2. tool to catch fish

• > Javanese: ꦱꦫ (sara, “pond”) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬲᬭ (sara, “water”)

sara

1. Alternative spelling of sāra

sara

1. Alternative spelling of sari

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

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sara m

1. arrow

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sara m

1. sound
2. vowel

• → Burmese: သရ (sa.ra., “vowel”)
• → Thai: สระ (sà-rà, “vowel”)

sara m

1. alternative citation form of saras (“lake”)

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “sara”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

• Homophone: Sara
• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra

sara

1. inflection of sarar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɾa/

sara

1. dried corn (maize)

• chuqllu

-sara (infinitive gusara, perfective -saze)

1. be insane, be crazy

• umusazi

Borrowed from Spanish cerrar, from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre (“fasten, bolt”). Compare Cebuano sira.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈɾa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧ra

sará (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜇ)

1. closing; closure (of a door, window, etc.)

   Synonyms: pagsasara, pagkakasara, pinid, pagpipinid, pagkakapinid

2. adjournment; closing (of a meeting, etc.)

   Synonyms: hinto, paghihinto, pinid, pagpipinid

3. object used to block entry into a place or to close a passage

   Synonyms: hadlang, halang

sará (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜇ)

1. closed; shut

   Synonyms: sarado, nakapinid, pinid

• “sara”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• rasa, aras, asar

• IPA^(key):

sara

1. south

• IPA^(key):

sara

1. (transitive) to light, ignite
2. (intransitive) to burn

• IPA^(key):

sara

1. (transitive) to take or carry something over (a body of water, etc.)

• IPA^(key):

sara

1. a twin

   Synonym: sosara

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صرعه (ṣarʿa, ṣara, “a single action of prostrating, a single fit of epilepsy”),^[1] from Arabic صَرْعَة (ṣarʕa, “seizure”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /saˈra/, /saːˈra/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra

sara (definite accusative sarayı, uncountable)

1. (pathology) epilepsy

   Synonyms: epilepsi, tutarık, tutarak, tutarga, yilbik

• “sara”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sara¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4070

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sara

1. fork, branch

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “разветвление, развилина, развилка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika