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See also: Sark, särk, and şark

English

Pronunciation

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)

  1. (Scotland and Northern England) A shirt or smock.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      The next thing the watchers saw was the laird struggling up the far bank and casting his coat from him, so that he rode in his sark.
    • 2007, Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials, Bluefire, →ISBN, page 259:
      Then lorek's rear claws dug into the links of Iofur's chain-mail sark and ripped downward. The whole front came away, and Iofur lurched sideways to look at the damage, leaving lorek to scramble upright again.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

sark (third-person singular simple present sarks, present participle sarking, simple past and past participle sarked)

  1. (transitive) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

Noun

sark (plural sarkok)

  1. pole (an extreme point of an axis, e.g. magnetically or geographically)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...

Derived terms

Compound words

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.
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Middle English

Noun

sark

  1. alternative form of serk

North Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Frisian zerke, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā. Cognates include West Frisian tsjerke.

Pronunciation

Noun

sark f (plural sarken)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) church
    At St. Clemens sark as en sark uun Neebel üüb Oomram.
    Saint Clement's Church is a church in Nebel on Amrum.
    Uun a sark könst dach ei iidj!
    You can’t eat at 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.
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Scots

Etymology

From Old English serc, syrc, sierce, from Germanic.

Pronunciation

Noun

sark (plural sarks)

  1. a man's shirt
  2. 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 sarkit, past participle sarkit)

  1. to clothe in or provide with a shirt
  2. to cover the rafters of a roof with wooden boards, line a roof with wood for the slates to be nailed on
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Tocharian A

Etymology

Compare Tocharian B serke.

Noun

sark

  1. circle
  2. cycle

Tocharian B

Noun

sark

  1. back (of the body)

Volapük

Noun

sark (nominative plural sarks)

  1. coffin

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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