kort

From Dutch kort, from Middle Dutch cort, from Old Dutch *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔrt/

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kort (attributive kort, comparative korter, superlative kortste)

1. short (in extent, physical length)

   Hierdie broek is te lank vir my. Kan jy hom bietjie korter maak?

   These trousers are too long for me. Can you make them a little shorter?

   Hierdie psalm is een van die kortstes. ― This psalm is one of the shortest.

2. short (in time)

   Na ’n kort geveg het hulle die dorp ingeneem.

   After a short encounter, they captured the village.

• IPA^(key): /kɔrt/, [ˈkʰɒːd̥]

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• Rhymes: -ʌɐ̯t

From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort.

kort (plural and definite singular attributive korte)

1. short
2. brief

kort

1. briefly
2. curtly
3. shortly

• “kort,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Low German kort, German Karte, from French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτη (khártē).

kort n (singular definite kortet, plural indefinite kort)

1. card
2. map, plan
3. chart

Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)
es	toer	treer	firer	femmer	sekser	syver
otter	nier	tier	knægt, bonde	dame, dronning	konge	joker

• “kort,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /kɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: kort
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Inherited from Middle Dutch cort, from Old Dutch curt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus.

kort (comparative korter, superlative kortst)

1. short

   Antonym: lang

Declension of kort
uninflected	kort
inflected	korte
comparative	korter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		kort	korter	het kortst het kortste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	korte	kortere	kortste
	n. sing.	kort	korter	kortste
	plural	korte	kortere	kortste
definite		korte	kortere	kortste
partitive		korts	korters	—

• Afrikaans: kort
• Negerhollands: kort, kot
• Skepi Creole Dutch: kort

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kort

1. inflection of korten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• krot, trok

From Old Norse kort, from Middle High German karte, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs).

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔɻ̊ʈ/

kort n (genitive singular korts, plural kort)

1. card
2. map

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kort

1. second-person plural preterite of kiesen
2. second-person plural preterite of küren

kor +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈkort]
• Hyphenation: kort

kort

1. accusative singular of kor

Borrowed from English court.

kort

1. (law) court; tribunal

Inherited from Old Norse kort (“a map”), from Middle High German karte, from Old French carte, from Latin charta (“papyrus, paper”). Related to Danish kort (“a map”) and German Karte (“a card; a map”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔr̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔr̥t

kort n (genitive singular korts, nominative plural kort)

1. map

   Synonym: landakort

2. postcard, card

   Synonyms: póstkort, bréfspjald

3. debit card

   Synonym: debetkort

4. credit card

   Synonyms: kreditkort, greiðslukort, krítarkort

• IPA^(key): /kɔʈ/
• Rhymes: -ɔʈ

From Latin curtus, via Middle Low German kort and Old Norse kortr.

kort (neuter singular kort, definite singular and plural korte, comparative kortere, indefinite plural kortest, definite plural korteste)

1. short

   på kort sikt ― in the short term

   på kort varsel ― at short notice

2. brief
3. (as an adverb) briefly, shortly (etter (“after”))

Borrowed from German Low German kort, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

kort n (definite singular kortet, indefinite plural kort, definite plural korta or kortene)

1. a card

kort

1. imperative of korte

• “kort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin curtus, via Middle Low German kort and Old Norse kortr.

kort (neuter singular kort, definite singular and plural korte, comparative kortare, indefinite superlative kortast, definite superlative kortaste)

1. short

From Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”), via Latin charta and German Low German kort.

kort n (definite singular kortet, indefinite plural kort, definite plural korta)

1. card

• “kort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English court. Doublet of kohorta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: kort
• Homophone: kord

kort m inan

1. (tennis) court (place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court)

• kort in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kort in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• kort in PWN's encyclopedia

From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus.^[1] Cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort, Danish kort and Norwegian Bokmål kort.

• IPA^(key): /kɔrt/

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kort (comparative kortare, superlative kortast)

1. short

   Antonym: lång

   • 1901, Zacharias Topelius, Noveller‎^[1]:

     Thomas! Thomas! [...]viskade nu Lotten, ty det var den korte som segrat, och hon hade igenkänt honom.

     Thomas! Thomas! Lotten now whispered, since it was the short one that had won, and she had recognized him.

   • 1931, Hjalmar Bergman, Clownen Jac‎^[2]:

     Kortaste avståndet mellan två punkter är den krokiga linjen, ju krokigare, desto kortare.

     The shortest distance between two points is the crooked line, the more crooked, the shorter.

Probably from Danish kort (“a card”) or possibly from a not referenced Middle Low German word kort known in Low German, kort (“a card”).^[1] Cognate with Icelandic kort (“a card, a map”) and Faroese kort (“a card, a map”), both from Old Norse kort (“a map”), all based on a variant of the Latin words charta and carta.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kʊrt/

kort n

1. a card; a piece of stiff paper or plastic.
   • 1926, John Wahlborg, Sista resan‎^[3]:

     Mannen räckte mig ett litet kort, varpå han nedskrivit namn och adress på en kvinna i Stockholm.

     The man gave me a small card on which he had written the name and address of a woman in Stockholm.

2. a playing card

   Synonym: spelkort

3. a card game, a game involving playing cards

   Ska vi spela kort? ― Shall we play cards?

4. photograph

   Synonyms: foto, fotografi

• → Finnish: kortti

• kort in Svensk ordbok.

Borrowed from English court.

kort (definite accusative kortu, plural kortlar)

1. court