serang

From Persian سرهنگ‎ (sarhang, “commander”).

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.

• Agners, Angers, Ganser, Sanger, angers, arengs, granes, ranges, rengas, resang, sanger, snarge

serang

1. to fight
2. to attack

serang (plural serang-serang, first-person possessive serangku, second-person possessive serangmu, third-person possessive serangnya)

1. attack