sirwal

English

Etymology

From Arabic سروال.

Noun

sirwal (plural sirwals)

1. A form of baggy trousers worn in North Africa, the Arab world, and parts of the Balkans.
   • 1974, Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Fearful Void:

     You dropped your serwal thus, under cover of the encircling boubou, you squatted thus and, having attended to your affairs, you concealed all traces by scuffing the mess over with sand.

   • 2009, Natasha Oakley, Cinderella and the Sheikh, page 58:

     ‘These,’ Bahiyaa said, pointing at the loose-fitting trousers, ‘we call sirwal.’

Alternative forms

• serwal

Anagrams

• Warlis, aswirl