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Sarawak

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Etymology edit

From Malay Sarawak.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Malaysia) IPA(key): /saraˈwak/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsæɹəwæk/, /ˈsɑːɹəwæk/, /səˈrɑːwək/
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Proper noun edit

Sarawak

  1. A state in eastern Malaysia. Capital: Kuching.
    • 1972, C. P. FitzGerald, The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean"‎[1], London: Barrie & Jenkins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189:
      In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.
  2. (historical) A former country in Southeast Asia; the "Kingdom of Sarawak" from 1841 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's annexation of it in 1946.

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Malay Sarawak, from Sarawak Malay serawak (“antimony”). Doublet of serawak.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (Standard) /saˈrawaʔ/, /səˈrawaʔ/

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Sarawak

  1. Sarawak (state in Malaysia)

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Sarawak (Jawi spelling سراوق)

  1. Sarawak (state in Malaysia)

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Malay Sarawak.

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Sarawak m

  1. Sarawak (a state of Malaysia)
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