# sark
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɑːk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːk

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Noun

sark (plural sarks)
* (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.

##### Derived terms

* sarkless

##### Related terms

* battle-sark
* berserk
* sarkit

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sark (third-person singular simple present sarks, present participle sarking, simple past and past participle sarked)
* (transitive) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

### Anagrams

* AKRs, Kars, arks, kars, ksar, skar

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʃɒrk]
* Hyphenation: sark
* Rhymes: -ɒrk

### Noun

sark (plural sarkok)
* pole (an extreme point of an axis, e.g. magnetically or geographically)

#### Derived terms

* sarki
* Déli-sark
* Északi-sark
* sarkkutató

### Further reading

* 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
### Noun

sark
* Alternative form of serk

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* schörk (Mooring)
* Sērk (Sylt)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Föhr-Amrum) IPA: [saxk]

### Noun

sark f (plural sarken)
* (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

* 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
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɑrk/
* (Southern Scots) IPA: [sɛrk]

### Noun

sark (plural sarks)
* a man's shirt
* a woman's shift or chemise

#### Derived terms

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

### Verb

sark (third-person singular simple present sarks, present participle sarkin, simple past sarkit, past participle sarkit)
* to clothe in or provide with a shirt
* to cover the rafters of a roof with wooden boards, line a roof with wood for the slates to be nailed on

## Tocharian A
### Etymology

Compare Tocharian B serke.

### Noun

sark
* circle
* cycle

## Tocharian B
### Noun

sark
* back (of the body)

## Volapük
### Noun

sark (nominative plural sarks)
* coffin

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only