shorts

See also: short s

English

Running shorts.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts

Noun

shorts

plural of short

Noun

shorts pl (plural only)

pants or trousers worn for sports or in warmer weather that do not go lower than the knees.
Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts.
(dated) underpants.
After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts.
(uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
- 1847, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, volume II, OCLC 873042931, page 822:
  […] the first remove above bran is shorts ; the next above that is sharps
Short, inferior hemp.

Derived terms

boardshorts
booty shorts
boxer shorts
jockey shorts
playshorts
short shorts
sleep shorts
swimshorts
undershorts

Translations

plural of short — see short

pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: شُورْت‎ pl (šūrt)
Egyptian Arabic: شورت‎ m (šurt)
Armenian: շորտեր (hy) (šorter)
Azerbaijani: şort, şortik
Belarusian: шо́рты f pl (šórty)
Bengali: শর্টস (śôrṭś)
Bikol Central: sarwal
Brunei Malay: seluar pindik
Bulgarian: шо́рти (bg) pl (šórti), гаще́та pl (gaštéta)
Burmese: ဘောင်းဘီတို (bhaung:bhitui)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 短褲／短裤, 短裤 (dyun² fu³)
Mandarin: 短褲／短裤 (zh) (duǎnkù)
Czech: šortky f pl
Danish: shorts (da)
Dutch: shorts (nl)
Esperanto: ŝorto
Estonian: šortsid
Finnish: shortsit (fi), sortsit (fi)
French: short (fr) m
Galician: calzóns m pl (dated)
Georgian: შორტები (šorṭebi)
German: Shorts (de) pl, kurze Hose f
Greek: σορτς (el) n (sorts), σορτσάκι (el) n (sortsáki), παντελονάκι (el) n (pantelonáki)
Gujarati: ચડ્ડી (gu) f (caḍḍī) (uncommon)
Hebrew: מִכְנָסַיִים קְצָרִים‎
Hindi: शॉर्ट्स (śŏrṭs), हाफ़ पैंट m (hāf paiṇṭ), जाँघिया (hi) m (jāṅghiyā), जांघिया m (jāṅghiyā), चड्डी (hi) f (caḍḍī), कच्छा (hi) m (kacchā), कच्छ (hi) m (kacch)
Hungarian: rövidnadrág (hu), sort (hu)
Icelandic: stuttbuxur (is) f pl
Indonesian: celana pendek (id)
Irish: bríste sciota m, brístín m
Italian: calzoncini (it)
Japanese: ショートパンツ (shōtopantsu), ショーツ (shōtsu)
Kazakh: шорт (kk) (şort)
Khmer: ខោខ្លី (khaoklii)
Korean: 반바지 (ko) (banbaji), 쇼츠 (syocheu)
Kyrgyz: шорт (şort)
Ladin: brea curta f
Lao: ກາງເກງຂາສັ້ນ (kāng kēng khā san), ສົ້ງຂາສັ້ນ (song khā san)
Latvian: šorti pl
Lithuanian: šortai pl
Macedonian: ку́си панта́лони f pl (kúsi pantáloni), шорц m (šorc)
Malay: seluar pendek
Maltese: xorzz m
Manx: troosyn giarey m pl
Maori: tarau poto
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kortbukse m or f, shorts m
Nynorsk: kortbukse f, shorts m
Persian: شلوارک‎ (šalvârak)
Polish: szorty (pl) pl
Portuguese: calção (pt) m, short (pt), calções (pt), bermuda (pt)
Romanian: pantaloni scurți m pl, șort (ro) n
Russian: шо́рты (ru) f pl (šórty)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шорц m
Roman: šorc (sh) m
Slovak: šortky f pl
Slovene: kratke hlače (sl) f pl, boksarice f pl
Spanish: pantalón corto m
Swahili: kaptula (sw)
Swedish: shorts (sv), kortbyxor (sv) c pl
Tagalog: salawal (tl)
Thai: กางเกงขาสั้น (gaang-geeng-kǎa-sân)
Turkish: şort (tr)
Turkmen: şort
Ukrainian: шо́рти f pl (šórty)
Uzbek: shorti
Vietnamese: soóc (vi)
Welsh: siorts f pl

Verb

shorts

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of short

Anagrams

Horsts, Stohrs, horsts

French

Noun

shorts m

plural of short
Est-ce qu'il vous reste des shorts comme celui-ci en stock ?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English shorts.

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortser, definite plural shortsene)

shorts (trousers with short legs, no longer than to the knees).

Synonyms

kortbukse

References

“shorts” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English shorts.

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortsar, definite plural shortsane)

shorts (as above)

Synonyms

kortbukse

References

“shorts” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔɾ.tɨʃ/

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

Alternative form of short

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃoɾds/ [ˈʃoɾð̞s]
Rhymes: -oɾds

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

shorts
plural of short

Swedish

Etymology

From English shorts.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɧoːʈʂ/, (rare) /ʃoːʈʂ/

Noun

shorts pl

trousers with short legs. Does generally not reach to the knees.

Declension

Declension of shorts
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	-	-	shorts	shortsen
Genitive	-	-	shorts	shortsens