See also: Saru, säru, and saRu

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Old Turkic çaruk, Turkish çarık (sandal).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈʃɒru]
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ru
  • Rhymes: -ru

Noun

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saru (plural saruk)

  1. (toe post) sandal, thong, flip-flop
  2. (engineering) shoe (a plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative saru saruk
accusative sarut sarukat
dative sarunak saruknak
instrumental saruval sarukkal
causal-final saruért sarukért
translative saruvá sarukká
terminative saruig sarukig
essive-formal saruként sarukként
essive-modal
inessive saruban sarukban
superessive sarun sarukon
adessive sarunál saruknál
illative saruba sarukba
sublative sarura sarukra
allative saruhoz sarukhoz
elative saruból sarukból
delative saruról sarukról
ablative sarutól saruktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
sarué saruké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
saruéi sarukéi
Possessive forms of saru
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sarum saruim
2nd person sing. sarud saruid
3rd person sing. saruja sarui
1st person plural sarunk saruink
2nd person plural sarutok saruitok
3rd person plural sarujuk saruik

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ saru in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • saru in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsaru]
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ru

Etymology 1

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From Malay saru.

Adjective

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saru

  1. unclear, uncertain.
    Synonym: samar
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Javanese saru (ꦱꦫꦸ).

Adjective

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saru

  1. (dialect, Java) indecent, improper, unbecoming, annoying.
    Antonyms: patut, semenggah, senonoh

Etymology 3

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From Malay saru, from Arabic سَرْو (sarw, cypress).

Noun

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saru (first-person possessive saruku, second-person possessive sarumu, third-person possessive sarunya)

  1. (archaic) cypress, pine.
    Antonyms: cemara, eru

Etymology 4

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Noun

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saru (first-person possessive saruku, second-person possessive sarumu, third-person possessive sarunya)

  1. alternative form of seru (to shout)

Further reading

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Japanese

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Romanization

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saru

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さる

Sonsorolese

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Noun

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saru

  1. water

References

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Tataltepec Chatino

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish sábado.

Noun

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saru

  1. Saturday

References

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  • Pride, Leslie, Pride, Kitty (1970) Vocabulario chatino de Tataltepec. Castellano-chatino, chatino-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 15)‎[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 36

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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saru

  1. the floor

References

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