shorts

See also: short s

English

Running shorts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts

Noun

shorts

1. plural of short

Noun

1. Trousers worn primarily in the warm weather that do not go lower than the knees.

   Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts.

2. Underwear bottoms.

   After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts.

3. (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
4. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
   • 1847, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, volume II, →OCLC, page 822:

     […] the first remove above bran is shorts ; the next above that is sharps

5. Short, inferior hemp.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• boardshorts
• booty shorts
• boxer shorts

• playshorts
• short shorts
• sleep shorts
• swimshorts

Translations

plural of short — see short

pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: شُورْت pl (šūrt)

  Egyptian Arabic: شورت m (šurt)

• Armenian: շորտեր (hy) (šorter)
• Azerbaijani: şort, şortik
• Belarusian: шо́рты f pl (šórty)
• Bengali: শর্টস (śorṭoś)
• Brunei Malay: seluar pindik
• Bulgarian: шо́рти (bg) pl (šórti), гаще́та pl (gaštéta)
• Burmese: ဘောင်းဘီတို (bhaung:bhitui)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 短褲／短裤 (dyun² fu³), 短裤 (dyun² fu³)

  Mandarin: 短褲／短裤 (zh) (duǎnkù), 短裤 (zh) (duǎnkù)

• Czech: šortky f pl
• Danish: shorts (da)
• Dutch: hotpants (nl)
• Estonian: šortsid
• Finnish: shortsit (fi), sortsit (fi)
• French: short (fr) m
• Georgian: შორტები (šorṭebi)
• German: Shorts (de) pl, kurze Hose f
• Greek: σορτς (el) n (sorts), σορτσάκι (el) n (sortsáki), παντελονάκι (el) n (pantelonáki)
• Gujarati: ચડ્ડી (gu) f (caḍḍī) (uncommon)
• Hebrew: מִכְנָסַיִים קְצָרִים
• Hindi: शॉर्ट्स (śŏrṭs), हाफ़ पैंट m (hāf pa͠iṭ), जाँघिया (hi) m (jāṅghiyā), जांघिया m (jāṅghiyā), चड्डी (hi) f (caḍḍī), कच्छा (hi) m (kacchā), कच्छ (hi) m (kacch)
• Hungarian: rövidnadrág (hu), sort (hu)
• Icelandic: stuttbuxur (is) f pl
• Indonesian: celana pendek (id)
• Irish: bríste sciota m, brístín m
• Italian: calzoncini (it)
• Japanese: ショートパンツ (shōtopantsu), ショーツ (shōtsu)
• Kazakh: шорт (kk) (şort)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 반바지 (ko) (banbaji), 쇼츠 (syocheu)
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• Kyrgyz: шорт (şort)
• Ladin: brea curta f
• Lao: ກາງເກງຂາສັ້ນ (kāng kēng khā san), ສົ້ງຂາສັ້ນ (song khā san)
• Latvian: šorti pl
• Lithuanian: šortai pl
• Macedonian: ку́си панта́лони f pl (kúsi pantáloni), шорц m (šorc)
• Malay: seluar pendek
• Maltese: xorzz m
• Manx: troosyn giarey m pl
• Maori: tarau poto
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kortbukse m or f, shorts m

  Nynorsk: kortbukse f, shorts m

• Persian: شلوارک (šalvârak)
• Polish: szorty (pl) pl
• Portuguese: calção (pt) m, short (pt), calções (pt)
• Romanian: pantaloni scurți m pl, șort (ro) n
• Russian: шо́рты (ru) f pl (šórty)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шорц m

  Roman: šorc (sh) m

• Slovak: šortky f pl
• Slovene: kratke hlače (sl) f pl, boksarice f pl
• Spanish: pantalón corto m
• Swahili: kaptula (sw)
• Swedish: shorts (sv), kortbyxor (sv) c pl
• Thai: กางเกงขาสั้น (gaang-geeng-kǎa-sân)
• Turkish: şort (tr)
• Turkmen: şort
• Ukrainian: шо́рти f pl (šórty)
• Uzbek: shorti
• Vietnamese: soóc (vi)
• Welsh: siorts f pl

Verb

shorts

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of short

Anagrams

• Stohrs, horsts

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French

Noun

shorts m

1. plural of short

   Est-ce qu'il vous reste des shorts comme celui-ci en stock ?

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English shorts

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortser, definite plural shortsene)

1. shorts (trousers with short legs, no longer than to the knees).

Synonyms

• kortbukse

References

• “shorts” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English shorts

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortsar, definite plural shortsane)

1. shorts (as above)

Synonyms

• kortbukse

References

• “shorts” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of short

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃorts/

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

1. shorts
2. plural of short

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Swedish

Etymology

From English shorts

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɧoːʈs/, (rare) /ʃoːʈs/

Noun

shorts pl

1. trousers with short legs. Does generally not reach to the knees.

Declension

Declension of shorts
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	-	-	shorts	shortsen
Genitive	-	-	shorts	shortsens