shorts

See also: short s

English

A pair of running shorts

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts

Noun

shorts

1. plural of short

Noun

shorts pl (plural only)

1. 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.

   Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts.

   • 2018 August 9, Alan Burdick, “Science has Resolved the Question of Boxers vs. Briefs”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 November 2020:

     In 1925, boxer shorts were unleashed on the world: loose-fitting underwear for men, featuring an elastic waistband inspired by the shorts worn by boxers. It was underwear for the inner pugilist.

2. (dated) Underpants.

   After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts.

   • 2015, George Carlin, 3 X Carlin: An Orgy of George Including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?:

     And always, when the food arrives, send something back. It's considered very sophisticated. But make sure you use colorful language. Tell him, "Waiter, this veal tastes like the inside front panel of Ferdinand Magellan's shorts. And I'm referring to the first voyage."

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

• basketball shorts
• Bermuda shorts
• bib shorts
• bicycle shorts
• bicycling shorts
• biking shorts
• boardshorts
• board shorts
• booty shorts
• boxer shorts
• boy shorts
• boyshorts
• boy-shorts
• cargo shorts
• compression shorts
• cover shorts
• cycle shorts
• cycling shorts
• dolphin shorts
• dress shorts
• eat my shorts
• get one's shorts in a knot
• gym shorts
• jockey shorts
• jort
• jorts
• longs and shorts
• pekpek shorts
• playshorts
• poom-poom shorts
• pum-pum shorts
• safety shorts
• shants
• short shorts
• shorty shorts
• skort
• skorts
• sleep shorts
• split shorts
• swimming shorts
• swimshorts
• undershorts
• upshorts
• walking shorts
• walk shorts

Descendants

• → Arabic: شُورْت (šūrt)

  Egyptian Arabic: شورت (šurt)

  North Levantine Arabic: شورت (šōrt)

• → Bulgarian: шо́рты (šórty)
• → Czech: šortky
• → Danish: shorts
• → Dutch: short
• → Esperanto: ŝorto
• → Estonian: šortsid
• → Finnish: shortsit, sortsit
• → French: short
  • → Vietnamese: soóc
• → Georgian: შორტები (šorṭebi)
• → German: Shorts
• → Hindi: शॉर्ट्स (śŏrṭs)
• → Hungarian: sort
• → Japanese: ショーツ (shōtsu)
• → Korean: 쇼츠 (syocheu)
• → Kyrgyz: шорт (şort)
• → Latvian: šorti
• → Lithuanian: šortai
• → Maltese: xorzz
• → Mongolian: шорт (šort)
• → Norwegian:

  Latin script: shorts

  Latin script: shorts

• → Persian: شورت (šort)
• → Polish: szorty
• → Portuguese: short
• → Romanian: șort
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: šȍrc

  Cyrillic script: шо̏рц

• → Spanish: short
• → Swedish: shorts
• → Russian: шорты (šorty)
  • → Armenian: շորտեր (šorter)
  • → Azerbaijani: şortik
• → Turkish: şort
• → Turkmen: şort
• → Ukrainian: шо́рти (šórty)
• → Welsh: siorts

Translations

leg garment — see also hot pants

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

  Egyptian Arabic: شورت m (šurt)

• Armenian: շորտեր (hy) (šorter), կիսատաբատ (hy) (kisatabat)
• Azerbaijani: şort, şortik
• Belarusian: шо́рты f pl (šórty)
• Bengali: শর্টস (śôrṭś)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: sarwal

• Bulgarian: шо́рти (bg) pl (šórti), гаще́та pl (gaštéta)
• Burmese: ဘောင်းဘီတို (bhaung:bhitui)
• Catalan: pantalons curts
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 短褲 / 短裤 (dyun² fu³)

  Mandarin: 短褲 / 短裤 (zh) (duǎnkù)

• Czech: šortky f pl
• Danish: shorts (da) pl
• Dutch: korte broek f, short (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝorto
• Estonian: šortsid pl
• Finnish: shortsit (fi) pl, sortsit (fi) pl
• French: short (fr) m
• Galician: calzóns m pl (dated)
• 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 paiṇṭ), 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 (ja) (shōto pantsu), ショーツ (ja) (shōtsu)
• Kazakh: шорт (şort)
• Khmer: ខោខ្លី (khaoklii)
• Korean: 반바지 (ko) (banbaji), 숏팬츠 (ko) (syotpaencheu), 쇼츠 (syocheu)
• 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

  Brunei Malay: seluar pindik

• Maltese: xorzz m
• Manx: troosyn giarey m pl
• Māori: tarau poto
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шорт (šort)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kortbukse m or f, shorts m

  Nynorsk: kortbukse f, shorts m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شَلْوارَک (šalvârak)

• Polish: szorty (pl) pl
• Portuguese: calção (pt) m, short (pt), calções (pt), bermuda (pt)
• Romanian: pantaloni scurți m pl, șort (ro) n
• Russian: шо́рты (ru) f pl (šórty)
• Scottish Gaelic: briogais ghoirid
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шо̏рц m, шо̏ртс m

  Latin: šȍrc (sh) m, šȍrts m

• Slovak: šortky f pl
• Slovene: kratke hlače (sl) f pl, boksarice f pl
• Spanish: pantalón corto m, pantaloneta (es) f, short (es) m, pantaloncito (es) m
• Swahili: kaptula (sw)
• Swedish: shorts (sv) pl, kortbyxor (sv) c pl
• Tagalog: salawal (tl)
• Tamil: டிராயர் (ṭirāyar)
• Thai: กางเกงขาสั้น (th) (gaang-geeng-kǎa-sân)
• Turkish: şort (tr)
• Turkmen: şort
• Ukrainian: шо́рти f pl (šórty)
• Uzbek: shorti
• Vietnamese: soóc (vi), quần đùi (vi), quần cộc (vi), quần ngắn
• Welsh: siorts f pl

Verb

shorts

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of short

See also

• short pants
• undershorts
• 🩳

Anagrams

• Horsts, Stohrs, horsts

French

Noun

shorts m

1. plural of short

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

   Do you have any shorts like these left in stock?

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.

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.

Portuguese

Etymology

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 shortsubor.

Portuguese shorts

Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔʁ.t͡ʃis/ [ˈʃɔh.t͡ʃis]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔʁ.t͡ʃis/ [ˈʃɔh.t͡ʃis]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔɾ.t͡ʃis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔʁ.t͡ʃiʃ/ [ˈʃɔχ.t͡ʃiʃ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔɻ.t͡ʃis/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔʁ.tes/ [ˈʃɔh.tes]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔɾ.tɨʃ/

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

1. alternative form of short

Noun

shorts

1. plural of short

Further reading

• “shorts”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “shorts”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
• “shorts”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “shorts”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “shorts”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoɾds/ [ˈʃoɾð̞s]
• Rhymes: -oɾds

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

1. shorts
2. plural of short

Derived terms

• shorts cacheteros

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shorts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɧoːʈʂ/, (rare) /ʃoːʈʂ/

Noun

shorts pl

1. shorts (garment)

   ett par shorts

   a pair of shorts

Usage notes

Of athletic or casual shorts. Compare kortbyxor.

Declension

Declension of shorts

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	-	-
	definite	-	-
plural	indefinite	shorts	shorts
	definite	shortsen	shortsens

Derived terms

• badshorts (“swim shorts”)
• bermudashorts (“Bermuda shorts”)
• boxershorts (“boxer shorts”)
• fotbollsshorts (“football shorts, soccer shorts”)
• jeansshorts

See also

• kortbyxor

References

• “shorts”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “shorts”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “shorts”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)