shirt

English

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Wikipedia

A shirt

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɜːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɝt/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ʃəːʈ/, /ʃəːɾʈ/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skjorte (“shirt”), Norwegian skjorte (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”).

English skirt is a parallel formation from Old Norse; which is a doublet of short, from the same ultimate source.

Noun

shirt (plural shirts)

2. (clothing) An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

   Synonym: sark

   It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.

   • 1509, John Fisher, A Mornynge Remembraunce […] :

     She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.

   • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.

   • 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.

3. An interior lining in a blast furnace.
4. A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

Derived terms

single words

• greenshirt
• Orange Shirt Day
• overshirt
• redshirt
• shacket
• shirtdress
• shirted
• shirtfront
• shirtful
• Shirtgate
• shirtless
• shirtlifting
• shirtlike
• shirtmaker
• shirtmaking
• shirttail
• shirtwaist
• shirtwaister
• shirtwise
• shirty
• sleepshirt
• swimshirt
• workshirt

 

Compound words and phrases (nouns)

• aloha shirt
• A-shirt
• belly shirt
• blackshirt
• Blueshirt
• blue shirt
• boiled shirt
• bowling shirt
• brown shirt
• Brownshirt, brownshirt
• cabana shirt
• camp shirt
• Crimean shirt
• dinner shirt
• dress shirt
• golf shirt
• grandfather shirt
• habit shirt
• hair-shirt
• hairshirt, hair shirt
• Hawaiian shirt
• horsehair shirt
• jac-shirt
• lounge shirt
• lumberjack shirt
• Madiba shirt
• mail shirt
• muscle shirt
• Nessus shirt
• nether-shirt
• nightshirt
• peasant shirt
• pirate shirt
• poet shirt
• polo shirt
• purple shirt of sex
• red-shirt
• red shirt
• ringer T-shirt
• rugby shirt
• shirt-button
• shirt-frill
• shirt-front
• shirt-jac
• shirt lifter
• shirtlifter
• shirt-lifter
• shirts and skins
• shirt sleeve
• shirt-sleeve
• shirt sleeves
• shirt-sleeves
• shirt tail
• shirt-tail
• shirt waist
• shirt-waist
• shooter shirt
• stuffed shirt
• stuffed-shirt
• sweat shirt
• sweatshirt
• tennis shirt
• the shirt off one's back
• Tolstoy shirt
• T-shirt
• undershirt
• wedding shirt
• white-shirt
• yellow shirt

Verb phrases

• get one's shirt out
• get someone's shirt out
• give the shirt off one's back
• keep one's shirt on
• lose one's shirt
• off like a dirty shirt
• put one's shirt on
• wave the bloody shirt

 

Descendants

• → Fiji Hindi: sat

Translations

article of clothing

Afrikaans: hemp (af) Albanian: këmishë (sq) f Alviri-Vidari: Vidari: پیران (pirān) Amharic: ሸሚዝ (šämiz) Arabic: قَمِيص m (qamīṣ) Egyptian Arabic: قميص m (ʔamīṣ) Hijazi Arabic: قميص m (gamīṣ) Moroccan Arabic: قميجة f (qamīja) North Levantine Arabic: قميص m (ʔamīṣ) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܩܡܝܨܬܐ (qamīṣtāʾ) Turoyo: ܩܡܶܣܬܳܐ (qmesto) Western Neo-Aramaic: ܩܡܨܬ̤ܐ (ḳameṣčaʾ) Armenian: վերնաշապիկ (hy) (vernašapik), շապիկ (hy) (šapik) Aromanian: cãmeashã f, cãmeashi f Assamese: চোলা (süla) Asturian: camisa f Azerbaijani: köynək (az) Bashkir: күлдәк (küldək) Basque: alkandora, atorra Belarusian: кашу́ля f (kašúlja), саро́чка f (saróčka), руба́шка f (rubáška) Bengali: শার্ট (bn) (śarṭo) Breton: roched (br) f Bulgarian: ри́за (bg) f (ríza) Burmese: အင်္ကျီ (my) (angkyi) Buryat: самса (samsa) Catalan: camisa (ca) f Chechen: коч (koč) Chickasaw: naafka' lombo' Chinese: Cantonese: 恤衫 (seot1 saam1) Mandarin: 襯衫／衬衫 (zh) (chènshān), 襯衣／衬衣 (zh) (chènyī) Chukchi: мычыквын (myčykvyn) Crimean Tatar: kölmek, (northern dialect) kölekse Czech: košile (cs) f Dalmatian: camaisa f Danish: bluse c, skjorte c, trøje c Dhivehi: ގަމީސް (gamīs) Dutch: hemd (nl) n, overhemd (nl) n, shirt (nl) Elfdalian: stjuorta f Esperanto: ĉemizo (eo) Estonian: särk (et) Faroese: skjúrta f Finnish: paita (fi) French: chemise (fr) f Friulian: cjamese f, čhamese f Galician: camisa (gl) f, chambra f, blusa f, cos (gl) m, envestidoiro m Gallurese: camisgia Georgian: პერანგი (ka) (ṗerangi) German: Hemd (de) n Greek: πουκάμισο (el) n (poukámiso) Greenlandic: ilulleq (kl) Guerrero Amuzgo: kotôⁿ Gujarati: ખમીસ n (khamīs) Hawaiian: palaka Hebrew: חולצה \ חֻלְצָה (he) f (khultsá) Hiligaynon: kamisadentro Hindi: क़मीज़ f (qamīz) Hungarian: ing (hu), kombiné (hu) Hunsrik: Himd n Icelandic: skyrta (is) f Ido: kamizo (io) Indonesian: baju (id), kemeja (id) Ingrian: paita Ingush: коч (koč) Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Iquito: namátiica Irish: léine (ga) f Italian: camicia (it) f, maglia (it) f Japanese: シャツ (ja) (shatsu), (business shirt, "white shirt") ワイシャツ (ja) (waishatsu) Kamba: shati Kannada: ಅಂಗಿ (kn) (aṅgi), ಕಮೀಜು (kamīju) Karachay-Balkar: кёлек (kölek) Karaim: кёльмяк, кельмяк (in Trakai) Kazakh: жейде (kk) (jeide), көйлек (kk) (köilek) Khakas: кӧгенек Khmer: អាវ (km) (ʼaaw) Kikuyu: sati Korean: 셔츠 (ko) (syeocheu), 와이셔츠 (ko) (waisyeocheu), 남방 (ko) (nambang) Kumyk: гёлек (gölek) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کِراس (ckb) (kiras) Laki: کِراس (ku) (kiras) Northern Kurdish: kiras (ku) m Southern Kurdish: کِراس (ku) (kiras) Kyrgyz: көйнөк (ky) (köynök) Lao: ເສື້ອເຊີດ (lo) (sư̄a sœ̄t) Latgalian: krakli pl Latin: camisia f, tunicula f Latvian: krekls Laz: ფორჩა (porça) Lithuanian: marškiniai m pl Livonian: serk Luhya: lishati Luo: shat Lutshootseed: puʔtəd Luxembourgish: Hiem (lb) n Macedonian: кошула f (košula), маица f (maica) Malay: baju (ms), kemeja (ms) Malayalam: കുപ്പായം (ml) (kuppāyaṁ), ഷർട്ട് (ṣaṟṭṭŭ) Maltese: qmis f, flokk (mt) m Maori: kokomo, hāte Maricopa: haav Mauritian Creole: semiz Megleno-Romanian: cămeașă f Meru: shati Middle English: shirte Mon: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: дотуур цамц (dotuur camc), цамц (mn) (camc) Navajo: deijiʼ ééʼ Nepali: शर्ट (śarṭ), सर्ट (sarṭ), कमीज (kamīj) Ngazidja Comorian: shatri class 5/6 Nogai: коьйлек (köylek) Norman: c'mînse f North Frisian: Sjürt (Sylt) Northern Sami: báidi Norwegian: Bokmål: skjorte (no) m or f Nynorsk: skjorte f Occitan: camisa (oc) f Odia: ଶାର୍ଟ (śārṭa), ଅଙ୍ଗି (aṅgi) Ojibwe: babagiwayaan Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: срачица f (sračica) Old English: hemeþe n Old Norse: skyrta Ottoman Turkish: گوملك (gömlek), پیراهن (pirahen) Papiamentu: kamisa Pashto: خت (ps) m (xət) Persian: پیراهن (fa) (pirâhan), کرته (fa) (korte) Plautdietsch: Hamd n Polish: koszula (pl) f Portuguese: camisa (pt) f Quechua: kamisa Romani: gad m Romanian: cămașă (ro) f Romansch: chamischa f Russian: руба́шка (ru) f (rubáška), соро́чка (ru) f (soróčka) Rwanda-Rundi: Kinyarwanda: ijipo Sardinian: camigia Campidanese: camisa Logudorese: bentòne, camisa Sassarese: camixa Scots: sark Scottish Gaelic: lèine f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кошуља f, мајица f, рубача f Roman: košulja (sh) f, majica (sh) f, rubača (sh) f Seychellois Creole: semiz Shor: кӱнек (künek) Sicilian: cammisa (scn) f Slovak: košeľa (sk) f Slovene: srajca (sl) f, majica f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: zgło n, zgełko n Upper Sorbian: košla f Southern Altai: кӱнек (künek) Spanish: camisa (es) f, chema f (Costa Rica) Sranan Tongo: empi Swabian: Hemmed Swahili: shati (sw) Swedish: skjorta (sv) c Tagalog: kamiseta, kamisa Tajik: курта (tg) (kurta), пироҳан (pirohan) Talysh: Asalemi: شوی (šavi) Tamil: சட்டை (ta) (caṭṭai) Taos: cûdena Tatar: күлмәк (tt) (külmäk) Telugu: చొక్కా (te) (cokkā) Thai: เสื้อเชิ้ต (th) (sʉ̂ʉa-chə́ət), เสื้อ (th) (sʉ̂ʉa) Tibetan: སྟོད་ཐུང (stod thung), འོག་འཇུག ('og 'jug), སྐུ་སྟོད (sku stod) (honorific) Tofa: ырмааӄы Turkish: gömlek (tr), pirahen (tr) Turkmen: köýnek Tuvan: хөйлең (xöyleñ) Udmurt: дэрэм (derem) Ukrainian: соро́чка f (soróčka), кошу́ля f (košúlja) Urdu: قمیض f (qamīz), قمیص f (qamīs) Urum: гӧльмек (göĺmek), кӧльмек (köĺmek) Uyghur: كۆينەك (köynek) Uzbek: ko'ylak (uz) Venetan: camixa (vec) f Veps: paid Vietnamese: áo sơ mi (vi), sơ mi (vi) Vilamovian: hemb Volapük: jit (vo) Walloon: tchimijhe (wa) f Welsh: crys (cy) m West Frisian: himd White Hmong: tsho Winnebago: woonąžį Wolof: mbubb (wo) Yakut: ырбаахы (ırbaaqı) Yiddish: העמד n (hemd) Yoruba: ṣẹ́ẹ̀tì Yup'ik: lumarraq

Etymology 2

From Middle English sherten, shirten (also shorten), from the noun (see above).

Verb

shirt (third-person singular simple present shirts, present participle shirting, simple past and past participle shirted)

1. To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
   • 1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I.

     Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.

Anagrams

• Hirst, Trish, riths

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃʏrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: shirt
• Rhymes: -ʏrt

Noun

shirt n (plural shirts, diminutive shirtje n)

1. a T-shirt or other shirt, typically including undershirts

Derived terms

• T-shirt

Related terms

• schort

Middle English

Noun

shirt

1. Alternative form of sherte