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Webster 1913 Edition


Serang


Se-rang′

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Noun.
[Per.
sarhang
a commander.]
The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

Definition 2024


serang

serang

English

Noun

serang (plural serangs)

  1. (India, now historical) A native Indian boatswain; a lascar captain.
    • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p.14:
      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.

Indonesian

Verb

serang

  1. to fight
  2. to attack

Noun

serang

  1. attack