sarong
/səˈɹɔŋ/noun
sarong is a noun meaning “A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-R-O-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sarong is sarongs.
What does sarong mean?
noun
- 1
A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sarong?
- UK /səˈɹɒŋ/
- US /səˈɹɔŋ/
- /səˈɹɑŋ/
Sarong has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sarong.ogg, En-au-sarong.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sarong
- sarongs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sarong?
Sarong appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Sarong in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense garment made of printed cloth wrapped about the waist:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does sarong come from?
Borrowed from Malay sarung.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).