• IPA^(key): /sɑːk/

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• Rhymes:-ɑːk

FromMiddle Englishserk,sark,serke, fromOld Englishserċ,sierċ m; andserċe,sierċe f(“sark, shirt, shift, smock, tunic, corselet, coat of mail”), fromProto-West Germanic*sarki, fromProto-Germanic*sarkiz(“shirt, armour, hauberk”), fromProto-Indo-European*swerg-,*swerk-(“clothes worn outside”), fromProto-Indo-European*ser-(“to arrange, tack, tie, unite”).

Cognate withScotssark,serk(“shirt, shift”),North Frisianserk(“shirt”),Danishsærk(“gown, shirt”),Swedishsärk(“shirt, chemise”),Icelandicserkur(“nightshirt”).

sark (pluralsarks)

1. (Scotland and Northern England) Ashirt orsmock.
   • 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 hissark.

   • 2007, Philip Pullman,His Dark Materials, Bluefire,→ISBN, page259:

     Then lorek's rear claws dug into the links of Iofur's chain-mailsark and ripped downward. The whole front came away, and Iofur lurched sideways to look at the damage, leaving lorek to scramble upright again.

• sarkless

• battle-sark
• berserk
• sarkit

sark (third-person singular simple presentsarks,present participlesarking,simple past and past participlesarked)

1. (transitive) To cover withsarking, or thin boards.

• AKRs,Kars,arks,kars,ksar,skar

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

sark (pluralsarkok)

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

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

sark

1. Alternative form ofserk

• schörk(Mooring)
• Sērk(Sylt)

FromOld Frisianzerke, fromProto-West Germanic*kirikā. Cognates includeWest Frisiantsjerke.

• (Föhr-Amrum)IPA^(key): [saxk]

sark f (pluralsarken)

1. (Föhr-Amrum)church

   At St. Clemenssark as ensark uun Neebel üüb Oomram.

   Saint Clement'sChurch is achurch in Nebel on Amrum.

   Uunasark könst dach ei iidj!

   You can’t eat atchurch!

• One of the original feminines that still commonly take the reduced articlea. Compare the different uses above and seeat for further information.

FromOld Englishserc,syrc,sierce, fromGermanic.

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

sark (pluralsarks)

1. a man'sshirt
2. a woman'sshift orchemise

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

sark (third-person singular simple presentsarks,present participlesarkin,simple pastsarkit,past participlesarkit)

1. toclothe in or provide with a shirt
2. to cover therafters of a roof with wooden boards, line a roof with wood for the slates to be nailed on

CompareTocharian Bserke.

sark

1. circle
2. cycle

sark

1. back (of the body)

sark (nominative pluralsarks)

1. coffin

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