shart

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɑːt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɑɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

See 'sheart.

Interjection

shart

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of 'sheart.
   • c. 1596, Sir Thomas More, Act III, Scene ii, l. 276:

     Shart, if my haire stand not an end...

Etymology 2

Blend of shit +‎ fart.

Verb

shart (third-person singular simple present sharts, present participle sharting, simple past and past participle sharted)

1. (informal, vulgar) To unintentionally defecate due to relaxing the anus to flatulate.
   • 2010, Gillian Telling, Dirty Girls:

     This same friend called me a few years ago to tell me that she had sharted—when you fart and a little fudge comes out—in a cab on her way home.

   • 2013, Jen Lancaster, The Tao of Martha:

     “ […] My hubris is about to shart itself at the craft store to the tune of 'Yakety Yak' while I am buying glitter paint.”

   • 2015, Michael Riddell, Same Dog, Different Shite:

     To make matters much worse, the shadow looked like the spider was flying, and this sent him right off. Daniel sharted.

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:flatulate and Thesaurus:defecate

Derived terms

• sharting

Noun

shart (countable and uncountable, plural sharts)

1. (colloquial, vulgar) An instance of sharting.
   • 2010, Carrie Peterman, A Logger's Nightmare: Accident Forever Changes Family:

     The definition: Not a fart, not a ***, it is a wet fart, a shart.

   • 2022, Claudia Oshry, Girl With No Job, page 105:

     The shart wasn't my finest moment, obviously. I didn't know you could shit and fart at the same time.

2. (colloquial, vulgar, uncountable) The resulting excrement from sharting.

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:flatus and Thesaurus:defecation

Anagrams

• Arths, HARTs, Harts, Raths, Stahr, harts, raths, tahrs, thars, trash

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شرط (şart).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaɾt/
• Rhymes: -aɾt

Noun

shart m (plural sharte) (archaic)

1. condition, requirement

   Synonyms: kusht, konditë

   me shart që ― on the condition that

2. (religion) precept, rule, rite

   Synonyms: porosi; rregull, rit

3. (ethnography) norm, rule, custom

   Synonym: rregull

4. principle, foundation

   Synonym: themel

   sharti i fesë ― the foundation of faith

References

• “shart”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1819a
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shart”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 442
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “shart”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 469a
• Jungg, G. (1895) “scart”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 125b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “šart”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 400
• Rossi, F. (1875) “sciàrt”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 1153ab

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sart/

Verb

shart

1. first/second-person singular perfect of sahar

Uzbek

Etymology

From Arabic شَرْط (šarṭ).

Noun

shart (plural shartlar)

1. condition, requirement

Derived terms

• basharti