sark
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑːk/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːk
Etymology 1
From Middle English serk, sark, serke, from Old English serc, syrc m; and syrce, sirce, serce 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.
- 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.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
Derived terms
- sarkless
Related terms
- berserk
- sarkit
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʃɒrk]
- Hyphenation: sark
- Rhymes: -ɒrk
Noun
sark (plural sarkok)
- pole (an extreme point of an axis, e.g. magnetically or geographically)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | sark | sarkok |
| accusative | sarkot | sarkokat |
| dative | sarknak | sarkoknak |
| instrumental | sarkkal | sarkokkal |
| causal-final | sarkért | sarkokért |
| translative | sarkká | sarkokká |
| terminative | sarkig | sarkokig |
| essive-formal | sarkként | sarkokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | sarkban | sarkokban |
| superessive | sarkon | sarkokon |
| adessive | sarknál | sarkoknál |
| illative | sarkba | sarkokba |
| sublative | sarkra | sarkokra |
| allative | sarkhoz | sarkokhoz |
| elative | sarkból | sarkokból |
| delative | sarkról | sarkokról |
| ablative | sarktól | sarkoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | sarké | sarkoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | sarkéi | sarkokéi |
| Possessive forms of sark | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | sarkom | sarkaim |
| 2nd person sing. | sarkod | sarkaid |
| 3rd person sing. | sarka | sarkai |
| 1st person plural | sarkunk | sarkaink |
| 2nd person plural | sarkotok | sarkaitok |
| 3rd person plural | sarkuk | sarkaik |
Derived terms
- sarki
- Déli-sark
- Északi-sark
- sarkkutató
Further reading
- sark in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Middle English
Noun
sark
- Alternative form of serk
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian zerke, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian schörk and West Frisian tsjerke.
Noun
sark f (plural sarken)
- (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.
- At St. Clemens sark as en sark uun Neebel üüb Oomram.
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 sarkit, 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 (nominative plural sarks)
- coffin
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sark | sarks |
| genitive | sarka | sarkas |
| dative | sarke | sarkes |
| accusative | sarki | sarkis |
| vocative 1 | o sark! | o sarks! |
| predicative 2 | sarku | sarkus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only