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

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

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

sara (Balinese script ᬲᬭ)

1. water

Borrowed from Old Javanese sāra (“energy”), from Sanskrit सार (sāra, “energy”).

sara (Balinese script ᬲᬵᬭ)

1. power

Borrowed from Old Javanese śara (“grass, reed; arrow; shaft”), from Sanskrit शर (śara, “arrow, shaft”).

sara (Balinese script ᬰᬭ)

1. arrow

• “sara” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary , Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province .

• 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/.

• 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 (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

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

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

sara

1. sedge (any plant of the genus Carex)

• “sara”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• 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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsara/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: sa‧ra
• Homophone: SARA

Inherited from Malay سارا (sara, “means of support; provisions”), from Sanskrit सार (sāra, “energy, extract, essence, substance”). Doublet of sari.

sara (plural sara-sara)

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

   Synonym: uang sara

3. (dated) pension: an annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes

   Synonym: pensiun

• → Malay: سارا (sara, “pension”) (semantic loan)

Borrowed from Minangkabau .

sara

1. to ask for suggestion

Borrowed from Kamang .

sara (plural sara-sara)

1. (dialect) dry rice with no contents

• “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.
• Welfridus Josephus Sabarija Poerwadarminta (1954) Kamus Umum Bahasa Indonesia (in Indonesian), 2nd edition, Djakarta: Perpustakaan Perguruan Kementerian Pengadjaran, Pendidikan, dan Kebudajaan, page 637

• (Cork) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɑɾˠə/
• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠʌɾˠə/ ~ /ˈʃaɾˠə/

sara

1. Munster 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): /ˈsɑː.rɑ/

sāra

1. inflection of sār:
   1. strong nominative/accusative feminine plural
   2. weak nominative masculine singular

sāra

1. genitive plural of sār

• 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.

From Sanskrit शर (śara, “reed, arrow”).

sara m

1. a kind of reed used for arrows
2. arrow (originally made of aforementioned reed)

From Sanskrit स्वर (svara, “sound”).

sara m

1. sound
2. vowel

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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”), from Arabic صَرْعَة (ṣarʕa, “seizure”).

• 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 ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika