sari

• saree
• shari

Borrowed from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī) ultimately from Sanskrit शाट (śāṭa), शाटी (śāṭī).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː.ɹi/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /saːɽi/, (spelling pronunciation) /saːri/, /særi/
• Homophone: sorry (father-bother merger)

sari (plural saris)

1. The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head.

• Sira, airs, rais, Rias, RISA, Risa, RIAs, IRAs, sira, Isar, aris, rias, IRAS

• sare

From Vulgar Latin sale, from Latin sāl, salem. Compare Romanian sare.

sari f

1. salt
2. (figurative) character

• piper

• IPA^(key): /sari/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ri

From Old Javanese sari, sāri (“pollen; quintessence”), from Sanskrit सार (sāra, “essence”).

sari (Balinese script ᬲᬭᬶ)

1. milk

From Old Javanese sari, sāri (“pollen; quintessence”), from Sanskrit सार (sāra, “essence”).

sari (Balinese script ᬲᬵᬭᬶ)

1. flower

• “sari” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Proto-Basque *sali (“value, reward, payment”). Often related to Iberian śalir, which possibly identifies some kind of currency.

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• IPA^(key): /s̺aɾi/ [s̺a.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -aɾi, -i
• Hyphenation: sa‧ri

sari inan

1. payment
2. value
3. award, prize

• saldu

• R. L. Trask (2008) “sari”, in Max W. Wheeler, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Basque, University of Sussex, page 337

• “sari”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
• “sari”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

sari

1. kind of spiny rattan

Ultimately from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.ri/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧ri
• Rhymes: -aːri

sari m (plural sari's)

1. sari (South Asian garment)

From Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑri/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝ri]
• Rhymes: -ɑri
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): sa‧ri

sari

1. sari (Indian piece of clothing)

• “sari”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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

• Arsi, rasi, rias, risa

sari m (plural saris)

1. sari (clothing)

• “sari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsari]
• Rhymes: -ri, -i
• Hyphenation: sa‧ri

From Malay sari, from Classical Malay sari, from Old Javanese sari, sāri (“pollen; quintessence”) (compare Javanese ꦱꦫꦶ (sari, “essence; pollen”)), sara, sāra (“core; essential; firmness, strength, power, energy”), from Sanskrit सार (sāra, “essence; nectar; core, pith; quintessence; main point”). Doublet of sara. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

sari (plural sari-sari)

1. essence: a significant feature of something; an extract or concentrate

   Synonyms: biang, pati

2. summary, overview

   Synonyms: ikhtisar, ijmal, resume, ringkasan

3. (archaic) flower

   Synonyms: bunga, kembang

From Betawi sari (“day”), cognate of Indonesian sehari (“a day, one day”), Old Javanese sari-sari (“continuously; day after day”).

sari (plural sari-sari)

1. alternative spelling of sari-sari (“daily”)

From Malay sari, from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀸𑀟𑀻 (sāḍī), from Sanskrit शाटी (śāṭī), शाट (śāṭa, “strip of cloth”).

sari (plural sari-sari)

1. sari: the traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head

• “sari” 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.

Borrowed from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī), from Sanskrit शाट (śāṭa), शाटी (śāṭī).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: sà‧ri

sari m (invariable)

1. sari

• arsi, rais, rasi, risa, risà

sari

1. romanization of ꦱꦫꦶ

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [saːɺ̢i]

sari (possessed sariry)

1. (Guyana, Venezuela) alternative form of kusari (“the red brocket deer, Mazama americana”)

sarī

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sariō

• “sari”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sari in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī).

• IPA^(key): [saɰi]

sari

1. sari

   Synonym: pagn

From Latin sal, salem. Compare Romanian sare.

sari f

1. salt

sari

1. alternative form of sory

• IPA^(key): /sa.ri/
• Homophone: sāri

sari

1. alternative spelling of sāri (“quintessence; pollen, flower”)

Probably affixed sa- +‎ wari (“day”). Cognate of Indonesian sari (“daily”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

sari

1. continuously, constantly, uninterruptedly, lastingly
2. day after day

• > Javanese: ꦱꦫꦶ (sari, “continuously, constantly, uninterruptedly, lastingly; day after day”) (inherited)
• →? Malay: seri (“draw”)
  • > Indonesian: seri (“draw”) (inherited)

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

Borrowed from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀸𑀟𑀻 (sāḍī), from Sanskrit शाटी (śāṭī), feminine form of शाट (śāṭa, “garment”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ri/

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• Rhymes: -ari
• Syllabification: sa‧ri

sari n (indeclinable)

1. sari

• sari in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• sári

• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: sa‧ri

sari m (plural saris)

1. sari (traditional dress used in India)

Borrowed from French sari.

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sari n (uncountable)

1. sari

Borrowed from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī), from Sanskrit षाटी (ṣāṭī).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾi/ [ˈsa.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Syllabification: sa‧ri

sari m (plural saris)

1. sari

• “sari”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī).

• Rhymes: -iː

sari c

1. sari

• sari in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

• isar, rias

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾiʔ/ [ˈsaː.ɾɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -aɾiʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧ri

sarì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜇᜒ)

1. sex (category)

   Synonyms: tauhin, seks

2. species

Borrowed from English sari.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾi/ [ˈsaː.ɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Syllabification: sa‧ri

sari (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜇᜒ)

1. sari (traditional Indian dress)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾiʔ/ [ˈsaː.ɾɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -aɾiʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧ri

sarì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜇᜒ) (obsolete)

1. insult

• “sari”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “sari”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

• iras, isra, sira

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɾi/

sari (Jawi ساري)

1. a shovel, digger, scoop
2. any piece of wood used to paddle
3. a paddle

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɾi/

sari (Jawi ساري)

1. (auxiliary) to desire, wish, want; to intend

   sari sisupu ― to want/intend to show

2. (auxiliary) indicates the near-future tense; will soon

   ngori rikoi sari sofo ― my banana (tree) will soon bear fruit

   una osari okodiho ― he will soon return

This auxiliary generally precedes the main verb. It may take the subject clitics (o, mo, etc.) generally only for emphasis.

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh