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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??k/

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)

1. (Scotland and Northern England) A shirt.

Related terms

• berserk
• sarkit

Etymology 2

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• AKRs, Kars, arks, kars, ksar, skar

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???rk]
• Hyphenation: sark
• Rhymes: -?rk

Noun

sark (plural sarkok)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

sark

1. Alternative form of serk

North Frisian

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Scots

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?rk/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): [s?rk]

Noun

sark (plural sarks)

1. a man's shirt
2. 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 present sarks, present participle sarkin, 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

Tocharian B

Noun

sark

1. back (of the body)

Volapük

Noun

sark (nominative plural sarks)

1. coffin

Declension

English

Etymology

Coined by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).

Pronunciation

Interjection

zark

1. (slang, euphemistic) Fuck.

Derived terms

• zarking
• zark off