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sark

See also: Sark, särk, and şark

English

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Etymology 1

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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

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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.
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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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.

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Hungarian

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Noun

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sark (plural sarkok)

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

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative sark sarkok
accusative sarkot sarkokat
dative sarknak sarkoknak
instrumental sarkkal sarkokkal
causal-final sarkért sarkokért
translative sarkká sarkokká
terminative sarkig sarkokig
essive-formal sarkként sarkokként
essive-modal — —
inessive sarkban sarkokban
superessive sarkon sarkokon
adessive sarknál sarkoknál
illative sarkba sarkokba
sublative sarkra sarkokra
allative sarkhoz sarkokhoz
elative sarkból sarkokból
delative sarkról sarkokról
ablative sarktól sarkoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		sarké sarkoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		sarkéi sarkokéi
Possessive forms of sark
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sarkom sarkaim
2nd person sing. sarkod sarkaid
3rd person sing. sarka sarkai
1st person plural sarkunk sarkaink
2nd person plural sarkotok sarkaitok
3rd person plural sarkuk sarkaik

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Compound words

Further reading

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

Middle English

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Noun

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sark

  1. Alternative form of serk

North Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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!

Usage notes

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

Scots

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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sark (plural sarks)

  1. a man's shirt
  2. a woman's shift or chemise

Derived terms

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

Verb

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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

Tocharian A

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Etymology

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Compare Tocharian B serke.

Noun

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sark

  1. circle
  2. cycle

Tocharian B

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Noun

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sark

  1. back (of the body)

Volapük

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Noun

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sark (nominative plural sarks)

  1. coffin

Declension

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declension of sark
singular plural
nominative sark sarks
genitive sarka sarkas
dative sarke sarkes
accusative sarki sarkis
vocative 1 o sark! o sarks!
predicative 2 sarku sarkus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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