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syrang

syrang is the archaic form of serang.

Meaning of serang

Noun

serang (plural serangs)

  1. (India, historical) A native Indian boatswain; a lascar captain.
    • The discovery that the substance in his mouth was of vegetable origin came as no great reassurance to Zachary: once, when the serang spat a stream of blood-red juice over the rail, he noticed the water below coming alive with the thrashing of shark's fins.2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 14

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Forms of syrang

pluralsyrangs

Questions about syrang

What is syrang the archaic form of?
Syrang is the archaic form of serang.

Words near syrang in the dictionary

  1. Syracuses
  2. Syracusian
  3. Syracusians
  4. syrah
  5. syrahs
  6. syrang
  7. syrangs
  8. Syrastrene
  9. syre
  10. syred
  11. syren

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syrang (page history and authors); serang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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