shirt

English

A shirt

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɜːt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɝt/
(Indian English) IPA^(key): /ʃəːʈ/, /ʃəːɾʈ/
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Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skjorte (“shirt”), Norwegian skjorte (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”).

English skirt is a parallel formation from Old Norse; which is a doublet of short, from the same ultimate source.

Noun

shirt (plural shirts)

An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
Synonym: sark
It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.
- 1509, John Fisher, A Mornynge Remembraunce […]
  She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 1051505315:
  Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.
- 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport‎:
  Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

Derived terms

aloha shirt
A-shirt
blackshirt
Blueshirt
Brownshirt, brownshirt
dinner shirt
dress shirt
get someone's shirt out
give the shirt off one's back
golf shirt
hair shirt
hairshirt
Hawaiian shirt
horsehair shirt
jac-shirt
keep one's shirt on
lose one's shirt
lumberjack shirt
muscle shirt
nightshirt
peasant shirt
poet shirt
polo shirt
put one's shirt on
rugby shirt
shirt-button
shirted
shirt-front
shirtless
shirtlifter
shirts and skins
shirt-sleeve
shirt tail
shirt-waist
shirty
stuffed shirt
sweatshirt
T-shirt
undershirt
wave the bloody shirt

Translations

article of clothing

Afrikaans: hemp (af)
Albanian: këmishë (sq) f
Alviri-Vidari:
Vidari: پیران‎ (pirān)
Amharic: ሸሚዝ (šämiz)
Arabic: قَمِيص‎ m (qamīṣ)
Egyptian Arabic: قميص‎ m (ʾamīṣ)
Hijazi Arabic: قميص‎ m (gamīṣ)
Moroccan Arabic: قميجة‎ f (qamīja)
North Levantine Arabic: قميص‎ m (ʾamīṣ)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܩܡܝܨܬܐ‎ (qamīṣtāʾ)
Turoyo: ܩܡܶܣܬܳܐ‎ (qmesto)
Western Neo-Aramaic: ܩܡܨܬ̤ܐ‎ (ḳameṣčaʾ)
Armenian: վերնաշապիկ (hy) (vernašapik), շապիկ (hy) (šapik)
Aromanian: cãmeashã f, cãmeashi f
Assamese: চোলা (süla)
Asturian: camisa f
Azerbaijani: köynək (az)
Bashkir: күлдәк (küldäk)
Belarusian: кашу́ля f (kašúlja), саро́чка f (saróčka), руба́шка f (rubáška)
Bengali: শার্ট (bn) (śarṭô)
Breton: roched (br) f
Bulgarian: ри́за (bg) f (ríza)
Burmese: အင်္ကျီ (my) (angkyi)
Buryat: самса (samsa)
Catalan: camisa (ca) f
Chechen: коч (koč)
Chickasaw: naafka' lombo'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 恤衫 (seot¹ saam¹)
Mandarin: 襯衫／衬衫 (zh) (chènshān), 襯衣／衬衣 (zh) (chènyī)
Chukchi: мычыквын (myčykvyn)
Crimean Tatar: kölmek, (northern dialect) kölekse
Czech: košile (cs) f
Dalmatian: camaisa f
Danish: bluse c, skjorte c, trøje c
Dutch: hemd (nl) n, overhemd (nl) n, shirt (nl)
Elfdalian: stjuorta f
Esperanto: ĉemizo (eo)
Estonian: särk (et)
Faroese: skjúrta f
Finnish: paita (fi)
French: chemise (fr) f
Friulian: cjamese f, čhamese f
Galician: camisa (gl) f, chambra f, blusa f, cos (gl) m, envestidoiro m
Gallurese: camisgia
Georgian: პერანგი (ṗerangi)
German: Hemd (de) n
Greek: πουκάμισο (el) n (poukámiso)
Greenlandic: ilulleq (kl)
Guerrero Amuzgo: kotôⁿ
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: חולצה \\ חֻלְצָה‎ (he) f (khultsá)
Hiligaynon: kamisadentro
Hindi: क़मीज़ f (qamīz)
Hungarian: ing (hu)
Hunsrik: Himd n
Icelandic: skyrta (is) f
Ido: kamizo (io)
Indonesian: baju (id), kemeja (id)
Ingush: коч (koč)
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Irish: léine (ga) f
Italian: camicia (it) f, maglia (it) f
Japanese: シャツ (ja) (shatsu), (business shirt, "white shirt") ワイシャツ (ja) (waishatsu)
Kamba: shati
Kannada: ಅಂಗಿ (kn) (aṅgi)
Karachay-Balkar: кёлек (kölek)
Karaim: кёльмяк, кельмяк (in Trakai)
Kazakh: жейде (kk) (jeide), көйлек (kk) (köilek)
Khakas: кӧгенек
Khmer: អាវ (km) (ʼaaw)
Kikuyu: sati
Korean: 셔츠 (ko) (syeocheu), 와이셔츠 (ko) (waisyeocheu), 남방 (ko) (nambang)
Kumyk: гёлек (gölek)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کِراس‎ (ku) (kiras)
Laki: کِراس‎ (ku) (kiras)
Northern Kurdish: kiras (ku) m
Southern Kurdish: کِراس‎ (ku) (kiras)
Kyrgyz: көйнөк (ky) (köynök)
Lao: ເສື້ອເຊີດ (lo) (sư̄a sœ̄t)
Latgalian: krakli pl
Latin: camisia f, tunicula f
Latvian: krekls
Laz: ფორჩა (porça)
Lithuanian: marškiniai m pl
Livonian: serk
Luhya: lishati
Luo: shat
Lutshootseed: puʔtəd
Luxembourgish: Hiem (lb) n
Macedonian: кошула f (košula), маица f (maica)
Malay: baju (ms), kemeja
Malayalam: കുപ്പായം (ml) (kuppāyaṃ), ഷർട്ട് (ṣaṟṭṭŭ)
Maltese: qmis f, flokk (mt) m
Maori: hāte
Maricopa: haav
Mauritian Creole: semiz
Meru: shati
Middle English: shirte
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: дотуур цамц (dotuur camc), цамц (mn) (camc)
Navajo: deijiʼ ééʼ
Nepali: शर्ट (śarṭ), सर्ट (sarṭ), कमीज (kamīj)
Ngazidja Comorian: shatri class 5/6
Nogai :коьйлек (köylek)
Norman: c'mînse f
North Frisian: Sjürt (Sylt)
Northern Sami: báidi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skjorte (no) m or f
Nynorsk: skjorte f
Occitan: camisa (oc) f
Ojibwe: babagiwayaan
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: срачица f (sračica)
Old English: hemeþe n
Old Norse: skyrta
Oriya: ଶାର୍ଟ (śarṭô)
Ottoman Turkish: گوملك‎ (gömlek), پیراهن‎ (pirahen)
Papiamentu: kamisa
Pashto: خت‎ (ps) m (xət)
Persian: پیراهن‎ (fa) (pirâhan), کرته‎ (fa) (korte)
Plautdietsch: Hamd n
Polish: koszula (pl) f
Portuguese: camisa (pt) f
Quechua: please add this translation if you can
Romani: gad m
Romanian: cămașă (ro) f
Romansch: chamischa f
Russian: руба́шка (ru) f (rubáška), соро́чка (ru) f (soróčka)
Rwanda-Rundi:
Kinyarwanda: ijipo
Sardinian: camigia
Campidanese: camisa
Logudorese: bentòne, camisa
Sassarese: camixa
Scots: sark
Scottish Gaelic: lèine f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кошуља f, мајица f, рубача f
Roman: košulja (sh) f, majica (sh) f, rubača (sh) f
Seychellois Creole: semiz
Shor: кӱнек (künek)
Sicilian: cammisa (scn) f
Slovak: košeľa (sk) f
Slovene: srajca (sl) f, majica f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: zgło n, zgełko n
Upper Sorbian: košla f
Southern Altai: кӱнек (künek)
Spanish: camisa (es) f
Sranan Tongo: empi
Swabian: Hemmed
Swahili: shati (sw)
Swedish: skjorta (sv) c
Tagalog: kamiseta, kamisa
Tajik: курта (tg) (kurta), пироҳан (pirohan)
Talysh:
Asalemi: شوی‎ (šavi)
Tamil: சட்டை (ta) (caṭṭai)
Taos: cûdena
Tatar: күлмәк (tt) (külmäk)
Telugu: చొక్కా (te) (cokkā)
Thai: เสื้อเชิ้ต (sʉ̂ʉa-chə́ət), เสื้อ (th) (sʉ̂ʉa)
Tibetan: སྟོད་ཐུང (stod thung), འོག་འཇུག ('og 'jug), སྐུ་སྟོད (sku stod) (honorific)
Tofa: ырмааӄы
Turkish: gömlek (tr), pirahen (tr)
Turkmen: köýnek
Tuvan: хөйлең (xöyleñ)
Udmurt: дэрэм (derem)
Ukrainian: соро́чка f (soróčka), кошу́ля f (košúlja)
Urdu: قمیض‎ f (qamīz), قمیص‎ f (qamīs)
Urum: гӧльмек (göĺmek), кӧльмек (köĺmek)
Uyghur: كۆينەك‎ (köynek)
Uzbek: ko'ylak (uz)
Venetian: camixa (vec) f
Veps: paid
Vietnamese: áo sơ mi (vi), sơ mi (vi)
Vilamovian: hemb
Volapük: jit (vo)
Walloon: tchimijhe (wa) f
Welsh: crys (cy) m
West Frisian: himd
White Hmong: tsho
Winnebago: woonąžį
Wolof: mbubb (wo)
Yakut: ырбаахы (ırbaaxı)
Yiddish: העמד‎ n (hemd)
Yup'ik: lumarraq

Etymology 2

From Middle English sherten, shirten (also shorten), from the noun (see above).

Verb

shirt (third-person singular simple present shirts, present participle shirting, simple past and past participle shirted)

To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
- 1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I.
  Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.

Anagrams

Hirst, Trish, riths

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shirt.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃʏrt/
Hyphenation: shirt
Rhymes: -ʏrt

Noun

shirt n (plural shirts, diminutive shirtje n)

A T-shirt or other shirt, typically including undershirts.

Derived terms

T-shirt

Related terms

schort

Middle English

Noun

shirt

Alternative form of sherte