sarafan

English

Etymology

From Russian сарафа́н (sarafán), from Turkic, from Persian سراپا (sarâpâ, literally “from head to foot”). Doublet of sarapa.

Noun

A girl dressed in a sarafan

sarafan (plural sarafans or sarafany)

1. A traditional long, trapeze-shaped Russian pinafore worn by women and girls.

Translations

a traditional long, trapeze-shaped Russian pinafore worn by women and girls.

• Armenian: սարաֆան (hy) (sarafan)
• Belarusian: сарафа́н m (sarafán)
• Bulgarian: сарафа́н m (sarafán)
• Czech: sarafán m
• Estonian: sarafan
• Finnish: sarafaani (fi), feresi
• French: sarafane (fr) m
• German: Sarafan m
• Hebrew: סָרָפָן (he) m (sarafán)
• Ingrian: saraffana
• Japanese: サラファン (sarafan)
• Karelian: košto
• Korean: 사라판 (sarapan)
• Persian: سارافون (sârâfon)
• Polish: sarafan m
• Romanian: sarafan (ro) n
• Russian: сарафа́н (ru) m (sarafán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сара̀фа̄н m

  Latin: saràfān (sh) m

• Spanish: sarafán m
• Ukrainian: сарафа́н m (sarafán)

Japanese

Romanization

sarafan

1. Rōmaji transcription of サラファン

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian сарафан (sarafan), from Turkic, from Persian سراپا (sarâpâ, literally “from head to foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.raˈfan/

Noun

sarafan n (plural sarafane)

1. sarafan

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sarafan	sarafanul	sarafane	sarafanele
genitive-dative	sarafan	sarafanului	sarafane	sarafanelor
vocative	sarafanule		sarafanelor

References

• “sarafan”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026