# art
## Translingual
### Symbol

art
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for artificial languages.

## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɑːt/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ɑɹt/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
* Hyphenation: art
* (Estuary English) IPA: [ɑːʔ]
* (Ireland) IPA: [äˑɹt], [-ɻ-], (Ulster) [ɑˑɻt]
* (Northern England, Wales) IPA: [aːt], [äːt], (Geordie) [ɒːt]
* (New York City) IPA: [ɒət], (rhotic) [ɒɹt]
* (Canada) IPA: [ɑ̈ɹt], (Atlantic Canada) [ɐɹt]
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ɐːt/, [äːt]
* (General South African) IPA: /ɑːt/, [ɑːtʰ], [-tsʰ]

#### Noun

art (countable and uncountable, plural arts)
* (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
    There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
** 1992 May 3, “Comrade Bingo”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world. R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it? B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do. R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
** 2005 July, Lynn Freed, Harper's:"I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."
** 2009, Alexander Brouwer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):Visual art is a subjective understanding or perception of the viewer as well as a deliberate/conscious arrangement or creation of elements like colours, forms, movements, sounds, objects or other elements that produce a graphic or plastic whole that expresses thoughts, ideas or visions of the artist.
* (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
* (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
    She's mastered the art of programming.
* (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
    He's at university to study art.
* (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
    Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
* (uncountable) Artwork.
    Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
    art collection
* (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
    I'm a great supporter of the arts.
* (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
** 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
* (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
** 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 217:A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
** 1855, Harriet Martineau's translation, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Vol. 1, Introduction, Ch. 2, page 21, from Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive (1830–1842)
    The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
** 1983 December 3, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 21:Let's make sandwiches out of colored paper and teach people how to listen. Listening is a social art and we had best hang on to it. A tape recording stuck in your ear won't do.
* (uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
** 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 222:it was not art, Of wisdom and of justice when he spoke— When ’mid soft looks of pity, there would dart A glance as keen as is the lightning’s stroke When it doth rive the knots of some ancestral oak.
** 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter VI, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 112:[...] and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint, when she returned home employing art, not force—with force she would have found it impossible.

##### Synonyms

* (Human effort): craft

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “Human effort”): mundacity, nature, subsistence

##### Hyponyms

* ABC art
* abstract art
* ANSI art
* ASCII art
* black art
* black arts
* blotter art
* body art
* cave art
* clip art
* concept art
* copy art
* fine arts
* first art
* folk art
* graphic art
* high art
* installation art
* junk art
* kinetic art
* liberal arts
* line art
* martial art
* minimal art
* mobiliary art
* modern art
* naïve art
* net art
* op art
* optical art
* outsider art
* performance art
* pixel art
* plastic art
* pop art
* portable art
* primitive art
* prior art
* process art
* retinal art
* sand art
* sequential art
* seventh art
* street art
* third art
* traditional art
* vernacular art
* visual art

##### Derived terms

* 7th art
* AADAOPA
* academic art
* allied arts
* antiart
* anti-art
* anti-object art
* applied arts
* art and part
* artboard
* artbook
* art class
* art dealer
* Art Deco
* art director
* artefact
* art epic
* arterati
* Artex
* art exhibition
* artfag
* artfest
* art film
* art for art's sake
* art form
* artfuck
* artful
* art gallery
* art gallery problem
* art game
* art glass
* artgoing
* art gum
* art handler
* art historian
* art-historical
* art history
* art hoe
* arthood
* art-house
* art house
* artifact
* artifice
* artificial
* artificial art
* art imitates life
* artisan
* artist
* artiste
* artistic
* artistry
* artivism
* artivist
* art journal
* artless
* artlike
* art line
* artly
* artmaker
* artmaking
* artmobile
* art movement
* art movie
* art music
* art name
* art nouveau
* art object
* art of the possible
* art of war
* artographer
* artotype
* art paper
* artpaper
* artpiece
* art pop
* artpreneur
* art punk
* art rock
* art room
* art rooom
* arts and crafts
* arts and letters
* art school
* arts degree
* artsome
* art song
* artspace
* art speak
* artspeak
* artsploitation
* art student
* artsy
* artsy-craftsy
* art therapy
* art track
* art union
* art up
* artware
* artwear
* artwise
* artwork
* artworker
* artworld
* art world
* arty
* arty-farty
* Bachelor of Arts
* beaux-arts
* beaux arts
* bioart
* box art
* Britart
* conceptual art
* concrete art
* cool art
* cover art
* crowd art
* culinary art
* cyberart
* dark art
* decorative arts
* digital art
* domestic arts
* down to a fine art
* earth art
* eco-art
* endurance art
* fanart
* fan art
* fiber art
* fine art
* food art
* found art
* funk art
* glitch art
* GPS art
* graffiti art
* Greek arts
* healing art
* household art
* idea art
* industrial arts
* Internet art
* land art
* language arts
* latte art
* ledger art
* leg art
* letter art
* life imitates art
* mail art
* marine art
* Master of Arts
* mechanic arts
* nanoart
* noble art
* nonart
* nose art
* nut art
* object of art
* objet d'art
* paleoart
* parietal art
* performing art
* person having ordinary skill in the art
* person of ordinary skill in the art
* photocopy art
* piece of art
* post-object art
* programmer art
* public art
* rock art
* sand-art
* sequential art narrative
* serial art
* seven arts
* sideart
* skin-art
* skin art
* sound art
* stamp art
* state of the art
* state-of-the-art
* term of art
* textile art
* tramp art
* trench art
* turn something into an art form
* unarted
* visual arts
* word art
* work of art
* Xerox art
* English terms starting with “art”

##### Descendants

* Jamaican Creole: aat
* Tok Pisin: at
* → Japanese: アート (āto)

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### Further reading

* art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:Art on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* Art on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
* Art on Wikisource.Wikisource
* Art on Wikibooks.Wikibooks

### Etymology 2

From Middle English art, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of wesan, from Proto-Germanic *art (“(thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iraną (“to rise, be quick, become active”), from Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or(w)- (“to lift, rise, set in motion”).
Cognate with Faroese ert (“art”), Icelandic ert (“art”), Old English earon (“are”), from the same preterite-present Germanic verb. More at are.

#### Pronunciation

(stressed)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɑːt/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ɑɹt/
** Audio (US):(file)
(unstressed)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ət/
* (General American) IPA: /əɹt/

#### Verb

art
* (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of be
    How great thou art!

#### See also

* am
* are
* be
* been
* beest
* being
* thou'rt
* was
* wast
* were
* wert

### References

* “art”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* "art" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 40.
* art in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “art”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* Hickey, Raymond (1984) “Coronal Segments in Irish English”, in Journal of Linguistics, volume 20, number 2, →DOI, pages 233–250

### Anagrams

* Tar, RAT, TRA, ATR, TAR, RTA, rat, rta, tra, 'rat, tar, Rat

## Albanian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ars, artem.

### Noun

art m (definite arti)
* art

#### Synonyms

* zeje

### Further reading

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “art”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎
* “art”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin artem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈart]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈaɾt]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾt

### Noun

art m or f (plural arts)
* art (something pleasing to the mind)

#### Usage notes

* Generally masculine in the singular, feminine in the plural.

#### Derived terms

* art marcial
* arter
* artista
* belles arts
* obra d'art

#### Related terms

* artesà
* artístic

### Noun

art m (plural arts)
* fishing net

#### Derived terms

* artet

#### Related terms

* bou
* xarxa

### Further reading

* “art” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “art”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “art” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “art” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Latin ars (“art”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɒɹt]

### Noun

art m (plural artys)
* art

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

art
* back
    Synonyms: arqa, sırt

## Danish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German art, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz, cognate with German Art.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɑˀd̥]
* Homophone: ard

### Noun

art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)
* kind
* nature
* species

#### Descendants

* → Icelandic: art

## French
### Etymology

From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

art m (plural arts)
* art

#### Derived terms

* art abstrait
* art brut
* art de la guerre
* art de vivre
* Art déco
* art figuratif
* art martial
* art pariétal
* art plastique
* beaux-arts
* état de l’art
* histoire de l’art
* huitième art
* la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile
* marchand d’art
* neuvième art
* œuvre d’art
* règles de l’art
* septième art

#### Related terms

* artifice
* artificiel
* artisan
* artiste

#### Descendants

* Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
* Icelandic: art (f)

### Further reading

* “art”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* rat

## Icelandic
### Etymology

First attested in the 1600s. Borrowed from Danish or Middle High German art, both from Middle Low German ārt, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature, quality, characteristic”). The sense "art" is a borrowing from French art, which is a distant cognate.
Compare Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish art. Doublet of arður.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /art/
* Rhymes: -art

### Noun

art f (genitive singular artar, nominative plural artir)
* (dated) nature, character, disposition [First attested in the 1500s]
    Synonym: náttúrufar (n)
    það var svo góð art í honum að hann talaði aldrei nema vel um fólk á bakHe had such a good nature that he never spoke unkindly about people behind their backs.
* wellbeing, growth
    Synonym: þrif (n) [First attested in the 1500s]
    það er engin art í grasinuthe grass is not thriving.
* (obsolete) type [First attested in the 1500s]
* (obsolete) art

#### Declension
### References

* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
* Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “art”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
* Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
* “art” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish art, explained in glossaries as “stone”.

### Noun

art m (genitive singular airt, nominative plural airt)
* stone

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
art
airt
vocative
a airt
a arta
genitive
airt
art
dative
art
airt
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an t-art
na hairt
genitive
an airt
na n-art
dative
leis an art don art
leis na hairt :

#### Derived terms

* chomh marbh le hart (“stone dead”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “art”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “art”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Latvian
### Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”), from *h₁er- (“sparse; to crumble, to fall to pieces”), whence also the verb irt; see there for more.
Cognates include Lithuanian árti, Old Prussian artoys (“plowman”) (compare Lithuanian artójas), Old Church Slavonic орати (orati), Russian dialectal or dated ора́ть (orátʹ), Belarusian ара́ць (arácʹ), Ukrainian ора́ти (oráty), Bulgarian ора́ (orá), Czech orati, Polish orać, Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (arjan), Old Norse erja, Hittite [Term?] (/⁠ẖarra-⁠/, “to crush; (passive form) to disappear”), [Term?] (/⁠ẖarš-⁠/, “to tear open; to plow”), Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Latin arō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [âɾt]
* Audio (Riga):(file)

### Verb

art (transitive, 1st conjugation, present aru, ar, ar, past aru)
* to plow (to prepare (land) for sowing by using a plow)
    art zemi ― to plow the land, earth
    art tīrumu, lauku ― to plow a field
    art dārzu ― to plow a garden
    art kūdraino augsni ― to plow the peaty soil
    art ar traktoru ― to plow with a tractor
    papuvi ara divi traktori ― two tractors plowed the fallow (land)
    iziet art agri no rīta ― to go plowing early in the morning
    rudenī, rugāju arot, sekoju Jurim pa vagu un sarunājos ― in autumn, while (he was) plowing the stubble field, I followed Juris along the furrows and talked

#### Derived terms

* aizart
* apart
* atart
* ieart
* izart
* noart
* paart
* pārart
* pieart
* saart
* uzart

#### Related terms

* arājs
* arkls
* arums

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “art”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN.

## Maltese
### Alternative forms

* ard (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /art/
* IPA: /aːrt/ (variant, as if spelt *għart)
* Audio (Gozo):(file)

### Noun

art f (plural artijiet or (obsolete) iradi)
* earth (our planet)
    Synonym: dinja
* land, ground, soil
** 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:u lili firdu minn mal-art għal dejjem, u jien sfajt blata u gżira l-aktar ċkejkna, bi ftit faqqiegħ u ftit gremxul sewdieni ngħix ħajja waħdi.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* homeland
    art twelidi ― my homeland
    bla art ― without a homeland

#### Derived terms

* arti

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English eart, second person singular of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *art, second person singular of *iraną.

#### Alternative forms

* eart, ert

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /art/

#### Verb

art
* second-person singular present indicative of been

##### Usage notes

This form is more common than bist for the second-person singular.

##### Descendants

* English: art (archaic, dialectal)
* Yola: yarth, yart

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative form of ars, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís.

#### Alternative forms

* aart, arte

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /art/, (Northern) /aːrt/

#### Noun

art (plural artes or ars)
* A member of the seven medieval liberal arts (the trivium and quadrivium).
* The seven medieval liberal arts as a group; the trivium and quadrivium combined.
* The foundational knowledge and activities of a field or subject (either academic or trade).
* Applied or practical knowledge; the execution or realisation of knowledge.
* Guile, craft or an instance of it; the use of deception or sleight-of hand.
* Competency, skill; one's aptitude or ability in a given area or at a given task.
* A set of rules or guidelines for conducting oneself; a code of conduct.
* (rare) Knowledge, information; the set of things which one has learned about (through formal study).
* (rare) Rhetoric; skill in oration, argument, speech, or speaking.
* (rare) Human behaviour or action (as opposed to natural happenings).

##### Descendants

* English: art
* Scots: airt

##### References

* “art, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3

From Old English eard, from Proto-West Germanic *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature; type”). Doublet of erd (“nature, disposition”).

#### Noun

art
* (Northern) district, locality

##### Descendants

* Scots: airt
* Yola: ete

#### References

* “art, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Middle French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French art.

### Noun

art m (plural ars)
* art
** 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 15, lines 7–8:Il y a de toutes choses habondance, et ils vivent de marchandise et d'art.There is an abundance of everything and they make a living from merchandise and from art

#### Descendants

* French: art
** Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
** Icelandic: art (f)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

art f or m (definite singular arta or arten, indefinite plural arter, definite plural artene)
* character, nature, kind
* (biology) a species

#### Derived terms

* artsnavn
* bergart
* dyreart
* eigenarta
* fugleart
* gangart
* indikatorart
* kunstart
* planteart
* underart

### References

* “art” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* rat, tar

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

art m or f (definite singular arten or arta, indefinite plural artar or arter, definite plural artane or artene)
* (biology) a species
* character, nature, kind

#### Derived terms

* bergart
* dyreart
* eigenarta
* fugleart
* gangart
* indikatorart
* kunstart
* planteart
* underart

#### Related terms

* ard

### References

* “art” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* rat, tar

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin ars.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

art m (plural arts)
* art

#### Related terms

* artista

## Old English
### Verb

art
* Alternative form of eart

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin artem, accusative of ars.

### Noun

art oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural arz or artz, nominative singular arz or artz, nominative plural art)
* art (skill; practice; method)
** (Can we date this quote?) Walter of Bibbesworth: Le Tretiz, ed. W. Rothwell, ANTS Plain Texts Series 6, 1990. Date of cited text: circa 1250
    ore serroit a saver de l’art a bresser & brasyrNow would be the time to know the art of brewing

#### Descendants

* Middle French: art
** French: art
*** Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
*** Icelandic: art (f)
* Norman: art
* Walloon: årt
* → Middle English: art
** English: art
*** Jamaican Creole: aat
*** Tok Pisin: at
*** → Japanese: アート (āto)
** Scots: airt

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (art, supplement)
* art on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
* Etymology and history of “art”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old Irish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Celtic *artos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos. Compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ar͈t]

### Noun

art m
* bear
    Synonym: mathgamain

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* argt
* ragt — with metathesis

### Adjective

art
* strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of argr

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish art, from Middle Low German art, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“character, nature, inborn quality”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

art c
* species

#### Declension
### References

* art in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* tar

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آرت (art), آرد (ard) from Proto-Turkic *hārt (“back”). Cognate with Turkish arka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɾt/

### Adjective

art
* hind, rear
    art tekerler ― rear wheels

#### Synonyms

* arka

### Noun

art (definite accusative ardı, plural artlar)
* back
    Ardına bakmadan kaçtı.He ran away without looking "at his back".
* the other side

#### Synonyms

* arka

#### Derived terms

* ardıl
* ardışık
* art arda