sarawak
/ˈsæɹəwæk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A former country in Southeast Asia; the "Kingdom of Sarawak" from 1841 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's annexation of it in 1946.
Example Sentences
- "In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈsæɹəwæk/
Derived Forms
Sarawakian
sarawakite