Sarel

From Old English Sarlo, Sarle and Serle, from Anglo-Scandinavian or Norman Sarli and Sarle, ultimately from Old Norse.[1]

The given name sense is derived from Afrikaans Sarel.

Sarel

1. A surname.[1]
   • 1829, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons‎, volume 18, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, page 18:

     Andrew Lovering Sarel, esq. of Enfield, appealed against the charge made upon him from one to two four-wheeler's carriages.

2. A male given name from Afrikaans.
   • 1899, George Griffith, Briton or Boer?: A Tale of the Fight for Africa‎, F. V. White & Company, page 143:

     The Boers who had ridden into Germiston were under the command of Captain Sarel Eloff, President Krüger's grandson …

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2023, John Laband, The Boer Invasion of the Zulu Kingdom 1837–1840, Jonathan Ball, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     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.

• Sarell

• Sarl
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• Searl, seral, reals, laser, ALSer, Lares, 'rales, Earls, arles, rales, Laser, Arles, Arels, saler, lares, earls, LASER, lears, arsle

From Dutch Carel, Charl and Charel, from French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (“free man”).

Sarel

1. a male given name.
   • 1987, P. S. De Jongh, Sarel Cilliers: 'n biografie oor die voortrekkerfiguur Sarel Cilliers [Sarel Cilliers: A biography about the Voortrekker Sarel Cilliers], Perskor, →ISBN, page 216:

     Sarel se familie in die Oranje-Vrystaat het hom ingelig oor die belowende boerdery vooruitsigte.

     Sarel's family in the Orange Free State informed him about the promising farming prospects.

   • 2002, Fanus Rautenbach, Tiesj: Weerkaatsings Vanmelewe [Tiesj: Reflections of Life], Hemel en See, →ISBN, page 262:

     My naam is nie Sarel nie. My naam is Raymond!

     My name is not Sarel. My name is Raymond!

• Zarel

Borrowed from Afrikaans Sarel.

Sarel ?

1. a male given name from Afrikaans.