# jark
## English
### Pronunciation

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### Etymology 1

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#### Noun

jark (plural jarks)
* A seal (stamp or impression of a stamp).
** 1818, Walter Scott, chapter XXIX, in The Heart of Midlothian (The Waverley Novels)‎, volume 2, page 92:"This is a jark from Jim Ratcliffe," said the taller, having looked at the bit of paper.

##### Derived terms

* jarkman

#### Verb

jark (third-person singular simple present jarks, present participle jarking, simple past and past participle jarked)
* (slang, military, British) To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach a tracking device to and covertly monitor the location of (a weapon).
** 1996, Andy McNab, Immediate Action‎, page 365:At the end of the day, it was inevitable that the IRA would discover that its weapons were being jarked.
** 2001, Peter Taylor, Brits:the War Against the IRA‎, page 255:'Anna' and 'Mary' were involved in operations that drew on a variety of intelligence data: ‘jarking’; information from agents; […] One of the weapons, perhaps the Armalite, had been ‘jarked’ by the ‘Det’ and tracked for some time.
** 2010, Christopher C. Harmon, Andrew N. Pratt, Sebastian Gorka, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism‎, page 197:An especially creative method was known as “jarking,” which involved “the placing of tiny tracking devices on weapons in arms caches so their movements can be followed.”$^8$
** 2010, Ed Moloney, Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland‎, page 282:The homes and safe houses he provided were bugged; the weapons hidden in empty houses were ‘jarked’ so the security forces could keep track of them, and the vehicles used to ferry weapons put under close surveillance.

##### Usage notes

(track weaponry): Both word and practice became common during the Ulster Troubles (1968-1998).

### Etymology 2

From jerk.

#### Verb

jark (third-person singular simple present jarks, present participle jarking, simple past and past participle jarked)
* Pronunciation spelling of jerk.
** 1996, William Gilmore Simms, Mary Ann Wimsatt, “Bald-Head Bill Bauldy”, in Tales of the South‎, page 323:First, I felt a kick in my side, and ribs; then I felt myself pulled and jarked about, by the arms and shoulders; and, when I opened my eyes and straightened myself out, to see what alligator hed got hold of me now, what should I see but a squad of four or five of our own Rigiment, all pulling at me at onst!

### References

* Eric Partridge (2005) “jarking”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1091.
* Toby Harnden, Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh, →ISBN

## Cypriot Arabic

* Root
* j-r-y
* 6 terms

### Alternative forms

* jri

### Etymology

From Arabic جَرْي (jary). Doublet of jirk.

### Noun

jark m
* verbal noun of jiri: running

### References

* Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 185

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jьkrà.

### Noun

jark m inan
* Alternative form of jerk (“roe”)

### Further reading

* Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “jark”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008

## Ngandi
### Noun

jark
* water

#### Descendants

* → Dhuwal: gutjark (with the Ngandi noun class prefix gu-)

### References

* Colette G. Craig, Noun Classes and Categorization (1986, →ISBN, page 389

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse jarki.

### Noun

jark m (definite singular jarken, indefinite plural jarkar, definite plural jarkane)
* edge of the sole of the foot