shirt

shirt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of shirt in a sentence

• Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
• 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.2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:

All 40 example sentences with shirt

Synonyms of shirt

• sark

Forms of shirt

Plural of shirt: shirts

Origin of shirt

From Middle English schirt, schirte, schuirte, schyrtte, seorte, shearte, shert, shirt, sseorte, 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”), from *skertaną (“to cut off”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off; to divide”). Doublet of skirt. Cognates Cognate with Yola shoorth, skoorth (“shirt”), North Frisian Sjürt (“shirt”), Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skjorte (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Irish sciorta (“skirt; strip”), Welsh sgert (“skirt”); also Irish curach, currach (“coracle, currach”), Welsh corwg (“coracle”), Latin carō (“flesh; pulp of a fruit; soft part of a precious stone”), Umbrian 𐌊𐌀𐌓𐌖 (karu, “part”), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to shave; to waste; to consume; to cut short”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear; to scratch”), Latvian šķērst (“cut dead animal or human so as to expose internal organs”), Lithuanian sker̃sti (“to slaughter; to massacre; to cut”)...

From Middle English schirten, from the noun (see above).

Words formed from shirt

• aloha shirt
• A-shirt
• belly shirt
• blackshirt
• Blueshirt
• blue shirt
• boiled shirt
• bowling shirt
• brown shirt
• Brownshirt
• cabana shirt
• camp shirt
• Crimean shirt
• diaper shirt
• dinner shirt
• dress shirt
• fire shirt
• ghost 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
• Oxford shirt
• peasant shirt
• pirate shirt
• poet shirt
• polo shirt
• purple shirt of sex
• red-shirt
• red shirt
• ringer T-shirt
• rugby shirt
• shirt-button
• shirt collar
• shirt-frill
• shirt-front
• shirt-jac
• shirtlifter
• shirt-lifter
• shirt lifter
• shirts and skins
• shirt sleeve
• shirt-sleeve
• shirt sleeves
• shirt-sleeves
• shirt-stud abscess
• shirt-tail

Phrases with shirt

• tee shirt
• war shirt
• shirt waist
• sweat shirt
• shirt waists
• tennis shirt
• Truman shirt
• tuxedo shirt
• weirdo shirt
• yellow shirt
• shirt collars
• shirt lifters

Words that rhyme with shirt

• convert
• revert
• Burt
• skirt
• squirt
• dirt
• assert
• ert
• flirt
• pert
• hurt
• invert

Questions about shirt

What does shirt mean?

Shirt means an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms.

What is shirt in Hindi?

Shirt in Hindi is क़मीज़ (qamīz). See Shirt meaning in Hindi.

How do you use shirt in a sentence?

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

What part of speech is shirt?

Shirt can be a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce shirt?

Shirt is pronounced /ʃɜːt/ (UK).

What is the plural of shirt?

The plural of shirt is shirts.