different between shirt vs kurta

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??t/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /????/, /?????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English s?yrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtij?, from Proto-Germanic *skurtij? (“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)

1. 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.
   • 1509, John Fisher, A Mornynge Remembraunce […]

     She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.

   • Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.
2. An interior lining in a blast furnace.
3. A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

Derived terms

Translations

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)

1. 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): /??rt/
• Hyphenation: shirt
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

shirt n (plural shirts, diminutive shirtje n)

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

Derived terms

• T-shirt

Related terms

• schort

Middle English

Noun

shirt

1. Alternative form of sherte

English

Alternative forms

• khurta

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ????? (kurt?)/Urdu ????? (kurt?), from Persian ????? (korte).

Noun

kurta (plural kurtas)

1. A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 44:

     Now her fingers began to unbutton the ivory studs that ran slantwise across the chest of his kurta.

Translations

References

• “kurta”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “kurta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “kurta” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “kurta” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.

Anagrams

• Kartu, Kraut, kraut

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?t?/

Noun

kúrta m 

1. sharing
2. (mathematics) division

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Ido kurta.

Pronunciation

Adjective

kurta (accusative singular kurtan, plural kurtaj, accusative plural kurtajn)

1. (chiefly poetic) short

Synonyms

• mallonga

Antonyms

• longa

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin curta, feminine of curtus (“shortened”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kurt?]
• Hyphenation: kur?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

Adjective

kurta (comparative kurtább, superlative legkurtább)

1. short, brief, curt

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• kurta 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

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French court, German kurz, Italian corto, Spanish corto. Decision no. 224, Progreso IV.

Adjective

kurta

1. short

Antonyms

• longa

Derived terms

• kurteskar (“to shorten”)

References

Latvian

Participle

kurta

1. genitive singular masculine form of kurts
2. nominative singular feminine form of kurts

Portuguese

Etymology

From Hindi

Noun

kurta f (plural kurtas)

1. kurta (a knee-length shirt used in southeast Asia)