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Sarai, Serai, or Saraj may refer to:

Sarai (city)

Sarai (also transcribed as Saraj or Saray) was the name of two cities, which were successively capital cities of the Golden Horde, the Mongol kingdom which ruled much of Central Asia and part of Eastern Europe, in the 13th and 14th centuries. Located in present-day Russia, they were among the largest cities of the medieval world, with a population estimated by the 2005 Britannica at 600,000.

Sarai is Persian for "palace" and Russian for "shed". There is also a variation meaning home (Saraa), similar to Sarajevo in the Balkan peninsula.

Sarai (rapper)

Sarai Marie Howard (born January 23, 1981) is an American rapper.

Usage examples of "sarai".

As she reached the first flight of steps up, Sarai began counting off the different schools of magic, and how they had failed her.

Captain Tikri had just finished going through the reports from all the guard lieutenants when Lady Sarai stepped into his office.

But a healthy seventeen-year-old girl, five years younger than Sarai herself, had been killed, without warning, apparently without any good reason.

He stepped aside and admitted her to the consulting room, small but cozy, where Sarai settled into a blue brocade armchair.

Maybe, Sarai thought bitterly, she should be applauding, instead of mourning.

Shirith and her apprentice came when invited, and met with Lady Sarai in the Great Council Chamber that same evening.

Lady Sarai, you have not yet realized just how unlikely any citizen of Ethshar is to ignore a summons to the Palace from the Acting Minister of Justice, especially one delivered by a member of the city guard in full uniform, including sword.

Money was only worth what it could buy, and when she hired magicians and sent ships to Ethshar of the Spices and so forth, Sarai was buying information.

As Minister of Investigation, Sarai realized, she was surely entitled to bring a couple of guards and her chief of staff, Captain Tikri.

At the sight of Lady Sarai they snapped to attention and thumped their heavy spears on the stone floor.

Behold the Lady Sarai, Minister of Investigation and Acting Minister of Justice to Ederd the Fourth, Overlord of Ethshar of the Sands, Triumvir of the Hegemony of the Three Ethshars, Commander of the Holy Armies and Defender of the Gods!

Warlock he called himself, and Sarai did not recall ever meeting him or hearing his name before this.

All gave their oaths that they knew nothing about the murders that Sarai did not.

Fishertown arrived the next day, a thin, solemn young woman Sarai judged to be not yet twenty.

I am Lady Sarai, Acting Minister of Justice, and you are all under suspicion of treason.