sark

• IPA^(key): /sɑːk/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːk

From Middle English serk, sark, serke, from Old English serċ, sierċ m; and serċe, sierċe 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

• battle-sark
• 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 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 of serk

• schörk (Mooring)
• Sērk (Sylt)

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

• (Föhr-Amrum) IPA^(key): [saxk]

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.

   Uun a sark könst dach ei iidj!

   You can’t eat at church!

• One of the original feminines that still commonly take the reduced article a. Compare the different uses above and see at for further information.

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