art
Translingual
Symbol
art
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for artificial languages.
English
![](Images/wiktionary/Hans_Rottenhammer_-_Allegory_of_the_Arts_-_WGA20147.jpg.webp)
Pronunciation
- (Europe)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːt/, [ɑːt]
Audio (UK) (file)
- (Estuary English) IPA(key): [ɑːʔ]
- (Hiberno-English) IPA(key): [äˑɹt], [-ɻ-], (Ulster) [ɑˑɻt]
- (Northern England, Wales) IPA(key): [aːt], [äːt]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːt/, [ɑːt]
- (North America)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹt/, [ɑɹt], [-t̚]
Audio (US) (file)
- (NYC) IPA(key): [ɒət], (rhotic) [ɒɹt]
- (Canada) IPA(key): [ɑ̈ɹt], (Atlantic) [ɐɹt]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹt/, [ɑɹt], [-t̚]
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɐːt/, [äːt]
- (General South African) IPA(key): /ɑːt/, [ɑːtʰ], [-tsʰ]
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
- Hyphenation: art
Etymology 1
From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.
Noun
art (countable and uncountable, plural arts)
- (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
- 1992 May 3, "Comrade Bingo" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
- B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it?
B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do.
R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
- B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
- 2005 July, Lynn Freed, Harper's:
- "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."
- 2009, Alexander Brouwer:
- Visual art is a subjective understanding or perception of the viewer as well as a deliberate/conscious arrangement or creation of elements like colours, forms, movements, sounds, objects or other elements that produce a graphic or plastic whole that expresses thoughts, ideas or visions of the artist.
- (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
- (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
- She's mastered the art of programming.
- (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
- He's at university to study art.
- (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
- Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
- (uncountable) Artwork.
- Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
- art collection
- (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- I'm a great supporter of the arts.
- (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
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- (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 217:
- A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
- 1855, Harriet Martineau's translation, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Vol. 1, Introduction, Ch. 2, page 21, from Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive (1830–1842)
- The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 58:
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 217:
- (uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
- 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 222:
- it was not art,
Of wisdom and of justice when he spoke—
When ’mid soft looks of pity, there would dart
A glance as keen as is the lightning’s stroke
When it doth rive the knots of some ancestral oak.
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter VI, in Wuthering Heights, volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], OCLC 156123328, page 112:
- [...] and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint, when she returned home employing art, not force—with force she would have found it impossible.
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Synonyms
- (Human effort): craft
Antonyms
- (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence
Hyponyms
- ABC art
- abstract art
- ASCII art
- black art
- black arts
- body art
- cave art
- clip art
- concept art
- fine arts
- folk art
- graphic art
- high art
- installation art
- junk art
- kinetic art
- liberal arts
- line art
- martial art
- minimal art
- mobiliary art
- modern art
- naïve art
- net art
- op art
- optical art
- outsider art
- performance art
- pixel art
- plastic art
- pop art
- portable art
- primitive art
- prior art
- process art
- retinal art
- sand art
- sequential art
- seventh art
- street art
- traditional art
- vernacular art
- visual art
Derived terms
- 7th art
- AADAOPA
- academic art
- allied arts
- anti-art
- anti-object art
- applied arts
- art and part
- art class
- art dealer
- Art Deco
- art director
- artefact
- art exhibition
- art film
- art for art's sake
- art form
- artful
- art gallery
- art gallery problem
- art game
- art glass
- art gum
- art handler
- art historian
- art-historical
- art history
- art hoe
- art house
- art-house
- artifact
- artifice
- artificial
- artificial art
- art imitates life
- artisan
- artist
- artiste
- artistic
- art journal
- artless
- art line
- art movement
- art movie
- art music
- art name
- art nouveau
- art object
- art of war
- art paper
- art pop
- art punk
- art rock
- art room
- art rooom
- arts and crafts
- arts and letters
- art school
- arts degree
- arts degree
- art song
- art speak
- art student
- artsy
- artsy-craftsy
- art therapy
- art track
- art union
- artwear
- artwork
- artworker
- arty
- arty-farty
- Bachelor of Arts
- beaux-arts
- beaux arts
- box art
- conceptual art
- concrete art
- cool art
- cover art
- crowd art
- culinary art
- dark art
- decorative arts
- digital art
- domestic arts
- down to a fine art
- earth art
- eco-art
- endurance art
- fan art
- fiber art
- fine art
- food art
- found art
- funk art
- Greek arts
- household art
- idea art
- industrial arts
- Internet art
- land art
- language arts
- latte art
- ledger art
- leg art
- letter art
- life imitates art
- mail art
- marine art
- Master of Arts
- mechanic arts
- noble art
- nose art
- objet d'art
- performing art
- person having ordinary skill in the art
- person of ordinary skill in the art
- piece of art
- post-object art
- public art
- rock art
- sand-art
- sequential art narrative
- serial art
- skin-art
- skin art
- sound art
- stamp art
- state-of-the-art
- state of the art
- term of art
- textile art
- tramp art
- trench art
- visual arts
- word art
- work of art
- Pages starting with “art”.
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: aat
- Tok Pisin: at
- → Japanese: アート (āto)
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English art, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of wesan, from Proto-Germanic *art (“(thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iraną (“to rise, be quick, become active”), from Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or(w)- (“to lift, rise, set in motion”).
Cognate with Faroese ert (“art”), Icelandic ert (“art”), Old English earon (“are”), from the same preterite-present Germanic verb. More at are.
Verb
art
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of be
- How great thouart!
See also
- am
- are
- be
- been
- beest
- being
- was
- wast
- were
- wert
- thou'rt
References
- art at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "art" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 40.
- art in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- art in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- Hickey, Raymond (1984), “Coronal Segments in Irish English”, in Journal of Linguistics, volume 20, issue 2, DOI:, pages 233–250
Further reading
art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Art on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Art on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
Art on Wikisource.Wikisource
Art on Wikibooks.Wikibooks
Anagrams
- 'rat, ATR, RAT, RTA, Rat, TAR, Tar, rat, tar, tra
Albanian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ars, artem.
Noun
art m (definite singular arti)
- art
Declension
indefinite forms | definite forms | ||
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nominative | art | arti | |
accusative | art | artin | |
genitive (i/e/të/së) | arti | artit | |
dative | arti | artit | |
ablative | arti | artit |
Synonyms
- zeje
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ars.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈaɾt/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈart/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɾt
Noun
art m or f (plural arts)
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
Derived terms
- arter
- artista
- art marcial
- belles arts
- obra d'art
Related terms
- artesà
- artístic
Noun
art m (plural arts)
- fishing net
Derived terms
- artet
Related terms
- bou
- xarxa
Further reading
- “art” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “art”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “art” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “art” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cornish
Etymology
From Latin ars (“art”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɒɹt]
Noun
art m (plural artys)
- art
Crimean Tatar
Noun
art
- back
- Synonyms: arqa, sırt
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German art, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz, cognate with German Art.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɑˀd̥]
- Homophone: ard
Noun
art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)
- kind
- nature
- species
Inflection
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | art | arten | arter | arterne |
genitive | arts | artens | arters | arternes |
French
Etymology
From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʁ/
audio (file)
Noun
art m (plural arts)
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
Derived terms
- art abstrait
- art brut
- Art déco
- art de la guerre
- art de vivre
- art figuratif
- art martial
- art pariétal
- art plastique
- beaux-arts
- état de l'art
- histoire de l'art
- huitième art
- la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile
- marchand d'art
- neuvième art
- œuvre d'art
- règles de l'art
- septième art
Related terms
- artifice
- artificiel
- artisan
- artiste
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
Further reading
- “art”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- rat
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish art, explained in glossaries as “stone”.
Noun
art m (genitive singular airt, nominative plural airt)
- stone
Declension
First declension
Bare forms:
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Derived terms
- chomh marbh le hart (“stone dead”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
art | n-art | hart | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “art”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “art”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Latvian
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Etymology
From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”), from *h₁er- (“sparse; to crumble, to fall to pieces”), whence also the verb irt; see there for more.
Cognates include Lithuanian árti, Old Prussian artoys (“plowman”) (compare Lithuanian artójas), Old Church Slavonic орати (orati), Russian dialectal or dated ора́ть (orátʹ), Belarusian ара́ць (arácʹ), Ukrainian ора́ти (oráty), Bulgarian ора́ (orá), Czech orati, Polish orać, Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (arjan), Old Norse erja, Hittite [Term?] (/ẖarra-/, “to crush; (passive form) to disappear”), [Term?] (/ẖarš-/, “to tear open; to plow”), Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Latin arō.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [âɾt]
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Verb
art (tr., 1st conj., pres. aru, ar, ar, past aru)
- to plow (to prepare (land) for sowing by using a plow)
- art zemi ― to plow the land, earth
- art tīrumu, lauku ― to plow a field
- art dārzu ― to plow a garden
- art kūdraino augsni ― to plow the peaty soil
- art ar traktoru ― to plow with a tractor
- papuvi ara divi traktori ― two tractors plowed the fallow (land)
- iziet art agri no rīta ― to go plowing early in the morning
- rudenī, rugāju arot, sekoju Jurim pa vagu un sarunājos ― in autumn, while (he was) plowing the stubble field, I followed Juris along the furrows and talked
Conjugation
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
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Present (tagadne) | Past (pagātne) | Future (nākotne) | |||
1st pers. sg. | es | aru | aru | aršu | — |
2nd pers. sg. | tu | ar | ari | arsi | ar |
3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | ar | ara | ars | lai ar |
1st pers. pl. | mēs | aram | arām | arsim | arsim |
2nd pers. pl. | jūs | arat | arāt | arsiet, arsit | ariet |
3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | ar | ara | ars | lai ar |
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
Present | arot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | arošs | ||
Past | esot aris | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | ardams | ||
Future | aršot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | arot | ||
Imperative | lai arot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | aram | ||
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | aris | |||
Present | artu | Present Passive | arams | ||
Past | būtu aris | Past Passive | arts | ||
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
Indicative | (būt) jāar | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | art | ||
Conjunctive 1 | esot jāar | Negative Infinitive | neart | ||
Conjunctive 2 | jāarot | Verbal noun | aršana |
Derived terms
- aizart
- apart
- atart
- ieart
- izart
- noart
- paart
- pārart
- pieart
- saart
- uzart
Related terms
- arājs
- arkls
- arums
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “art”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN.
Maltese
Alternative forms
- ard (obsolete)
Etymology
From Arabic أَرْض (ʾarḍ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /art/
- IPA(key): /aːrt/ (variant, as if spelt *għart)
Noun
art f (plural artijiet or (obsolete) iradi)
- earth (our planet)
- Synonym: dinja
- land, ground, soil
- homeland
- art twelidi ― my homeland
- bla art ― without a homeland
Inflection
Inflected forms | |||
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Personal-pronoun- including forms | singular | plural | |
m | f | ||
1st person | arti | artna | |
2nd person | artek | artkom | |
3rd person | artu | artha | arthom |
Derived terms
- arti
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English eart, second person singular of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *art,second person singular of *iraną.
Alternative forms
- eart, ert
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /art/
Verb
art
- second-person singular present indicative of been
Usage notes
This form is more common than bist for the second-person singular.
Descendants
- English: art (archaic, dialectal)
- Yola: yarth, yart
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative form of ars, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís.
Alternative forms
- aart, arte
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /art/
Noun
art (plural artes or ars)
- A member of the seven medieval liberal arts (the trivium and quadrivium).
- The seven medieval liberal arts as a group; the trivium and quadrivium combined.
- The foundational knowledge and activities of a field or subject (either academic or trade).
- Applied or practical knowledge; the execution or realisation of knowledge.
- Guile, craft or an instance of it; the use of deception or sleight-of hand.
- Competency, skill; one's aptitude or ability in a given area or at a given task.
- A set of rules or guidelines for conducting oneself; a code of conduct.
- (rare) Knowledge, information; the set of things which one has learned about (through formal study).
- (rare) Rhetoric; skill in oration, argument, speech, or speaking.
- (rare) Human behaviour or action (as opposed to natural happenings).
Descendants
- English: art
- Scots: airt
References
- “art, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old English eard, from Proto-West Germanic *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature; type”). Doublet of erd (“nature, disposition”).
Noun
art
- (Northern) district, locality.
Descendants
- Scots: airt
- Yola: ete
References
- “art, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French art.
Noun
art m (plural ars)
- art
- 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 15, line 7-8:
- Il y a de toutes choses habondance, et ils vivent de marchandise et d'art.
- There is an abundance of everything and they make a living from merchandise and from art
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Descendants
- French: art
- Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
art f or m (definite singular arta or arten, indefinite plural arter, definite plural artene)
- character, nature, kind
- (biology) a species
Derived terms
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References
- “art” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
- rat, tar
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
art m or f (definite singular arten or arta, indefinite plural artar or arter, definite plural artane or artene)
- (biology) a species
- character, nature, kind
Derived terms
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Related terms
- ard
References
- “art” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- rat, tar
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin ars.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
art m (plural arts)
- art
Related terms
- artista
Old French
Etymology
From Latin artem, accusative of ars.
Noun
art m or f (oblique plural arz or artz, nominative singular arz or artz, nominative plural art)
- art (skill; practice; method)
- (Can we date this quote?) Walter of Bibbesworth: Le Tretiz, ed. W. Rothwell, ANTS Plain Texts Series 6, 1990. Date of cited text: circa 1250
- ore serroit a saver de l’art a bresser & brasyr
- Now would be the time to know the art of brewing
- ore serroit a saver de l’art a bresser & brasyr
- (Can we date this quote?) Walter of Bibbesworth: Le Tretiz, ed. W. Rothwell, ANTS Plain Texts Series 6, 1990. Date of cited text: circa 1250
Descendants
- Middle French: art
- French: art
- Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
- French: art
- Norman: art
- Walloon: årt
- → Middle English: art
- English: art
- Jamaican Creole: aat
- Tok Pisin: at
- → Japanese: アート (āto)
- Scots: airt
- English: art
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (art, supplement)
- art on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Etymology and history of “art”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *artos (“bear”) (compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar͈t/
Noun
art m
- bear
- Synonym: mathgamain
Inflection
Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | art | artL | airtL |
Vocative | airt | artL | artuH |
Accusative | artN | artL | artuH |
Genitive | airtL | art | artN |
Dative | artL | artaib | artaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
art | unchanged | n-art |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- argt
- ragt (with metathesis)
Adjective
art
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of argr
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish art, from Middle Low German art, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“character, nature, inborn quality”).
Pronunciation
audio (file)
Noun
art c
- species
Declension
Declension of art | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | art | arten | arter | arterna |
Genitive | arts | artens | arters | arternas |
References
- art in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
- tar
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish آرت (art), آرد (ard) from Proto-Turkic *hārt (“back”). Cognate with Turkish arka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɾt/
Adjective
art
- hind, rear
- art tekerler ― rear wheels
Synonyms
- arka
Noun
art (definite accusative ardı, plural artlar)
- back
- Ardına bakmadan kaçtı.
- He ran away without looking "at his back".
- the other side
Declension
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | art | |
Definite accusative | ardı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | art | artlar |
Definite accusative | ardı | artları |
Dative | arda | artlara |
Locative | artta | artlarda |
Ablative | arttan | artlardan |
Genitive | ardın | artların |
Synonyms
- arka
Derived terms
- ardıl
- ardışık
- art arda