Sarel

Meanings

proper noun

A surname.
Andrew Lovering Sarel, esq. of Enfield, appealed against the charge made upon him from one to two four-wheeler's carriages.
1829, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, volume 18, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, page 18
A male given name from Afrikaans.
The Boers who had ridden into Germiston were under the command of Captain Sarel Eloff, President Krüger's grandson …
1899, George Griffith, Briton or Boer?: A Tale of the Fight for Africa, F. V. White & Company, page 143
2 more examples
My name is Sarel Kandell. I am an attorney formerly with the migrant legal action program, and I just have one basic comment to make.
1967, Sarel Kandell, edited by Patsy T. Mink, Hearings, Reports, Public Laws, volume 12, United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labour, page 324
His party grew along the way and was joined by that of Charl (Sarel) Celliers (or Cilliers) from the Colesberg District with 25 adult men.
2023, John Laband, The Boer Invasion of the Zulu Kingdom 1837–1840, Jonathan Ball, →ISBN, unnumbered page

From Middle English Sarlo, Sarle and Serle, from Anglo-Scandinavian or Norman Sarli and Sarle, ultimately from Old Norse. The given name sense is derived from Afrikaans Sarel.

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