sark

• IPA^(key): /sɑːk/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːk

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”).

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.

• sarkless

• berserk
• sarkit

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.

• AKRs, Kars, arks, kars, ksar, skar

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɒrk]
• Hyphenation: sark
• Rhymes: -ɒrk

sark (plural sarkok)

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

• sark in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

sark

1. Alternative form of serk

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

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /sɑrk/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): [sɛrk]

sark (plural sarks)

1. a man's shirt
2. a woman's shift or chemise

• cutty sark (“short chemise or undergarment”)
• sarkfu (“shirtful”)
• sarkin (“coarse linen for shirts; roof boarding”)

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

Compare Tocharian B serke.

sark

1. circle
2. cycle

sark

1. back (of the body)

sark (nominative plural sarks)

1. coffin