shorts
/ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/ · noun
Meaning
- plural of short
- A garment worn over the pelvic area ending above the knees, not covering the entire length of the leg, designed for warm weather or for sports.
- Underpants.
- Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
- The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
- Short, inferior hemp.
- third-person singular simple present indicative of short
Etymology / origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Germanic *skertaną Proto-Germanic *skurtaz Proto-West Germanic *skurt Old English sċort Middle English schort English short Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English shorts From short + -s.
Related words
Descendant words
- şortı(Crimean Tatar) (der)
- შორტები(Georgian) (bor)
- Shorts(German) (bor)
- sort(Hungarian) (bor)
- ショーツ(Japanese) (bor)
- 쇼츠(Korean) (bor)
- شورت(North Levantine Arabic) (der)
- shorts(Norwegian Bokmål) (der)
- shorts(Norwegian Nynorsk) (der)
- шорты(Russian) (bor)
- šorc(Serbo-Croatian) (bor)
- shorts(Swedish) (bor)
- şort(Turkish) (der)
- קורצקעס(Yiddish) (clq)
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