sarau

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sarao, from Portuguese serão or Galician sarao (“party or gathering held in the evening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈɾaw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [saˈɾaw]

Noun

sarau m (plural saraus)

1. party
2. quarrel, disorder

   Synonyms: baralla, saragata, renyina

Further reading

• “sarau” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “sarau” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Japanese

Romanization

sarau

1. Rōmaji transcription of さらう

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician serao, sarao, from Old Galician-Portuguese serão, from Vulgar Latin *seranum, from Latin sērus (“late”). Doublet of serão.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈɾaw/ [saˈɾaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈɾaw/

• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: sa‧rau

Noun

sarau m (plural saraus)

1. soiree (formal evening reunion)

Further reading

• “sarau”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025