Etymology

Serangoon

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Today it means: A planning area and new town in the North-East Region of Singapore. Full definition →

Malay se-
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The story

  1. Malay · derived fromse-“one”
  2. English todaySerangoon

From Malay se- (“one”) + ranggung (“stork, small marsh bird”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.