sark

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɑːk/ Rhymes: -ɑːk === Etymology 1 === From Middle English serk, sark, serke, from Old English serċ, sierċ m; and serċe, sierċe f (“sark, shirt, shift, smock, tunic, corselet, coat of mail”), from Proto-West Germanic *sarki, from Proto-Germanic *sarkiz (“shirt, armour, hauberk”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerg-, *swerk- (“clothes worn outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to arrange, tack, tie, unite”). Cognate with Scots sark, serk (“shirt, shift”), North Frisian serk (“shirt”), Danish særk (“gown, shirt”), Swedish särk (“shirt, chemise”), Icelandic serkur (“nightshirt”). ==== Noun ==== sark (plural sarks) (Scotland and Northern England) A shirt or smock. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== battle-sark berserk sarkit === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== sark (third-person singular simple present sarks, present participle sarking, simple past and past participle sarked) (transitive) To cover with sarking, or thin boards. === Anagrams === AKRs, Kars, arks, kars, ksar, skar == Hungarian == === Etymology === Of the same origin as sarok. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈʃɒrk] Rhymes: -ɒrk Hyphenation: sark === Noun === sark (plural sarkok) pole (an extreme point of an axis, e.g. magnetically or geographically) Synonym: pólus ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === sark in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. == Middle English == === Noun === sark alternative form of serk == North Frisian == === Alternative forms === schörk (Mooring) Sērk (Sylt) === Etymology === From Old Frisian zerke, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā. Cognates include West Frisian tsjerke. === Pronunciation === (Föhr-Amrum) IPA(key): [saxk] === Noun === sark f (plural sarken) (Föhr-Amrum) church ==== Usage notes ==== One of the original feminines that still commonly take the reduced article a. Compare the different uses above and see at for further information. == Scots == === Etymology === From Old English serc, syrc, sierce, from Germanic. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɑrk/ (Southern Scots) IPA(key): [sɛrk] === Noun === sark (plural sarks) a man's shirt a woman's shift or chemise ==== Derived terms ==== cutty sark (“short chemise or undergarment”) sarkfu (“shirtful”) sarkin (“coarse linen for shirts; roof boarding”) === Verb === sark (third-person singular simple present sarks, present participle sarkin, simple past and past participle sarkit) to clothe in or provide with a shirt to cover the rafters of a roof with wooden boards, line a roof with wood for the slates to be nailed on == Tocharian A == === Etymology === Compare Tocharian B serke. === Noun === sark circle cycle == Tocharian B == === Noun === sark back (of the body) == Volapük == === Noun === sark (genitive sarka, plural sarks) coffin ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “sark”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)