dart

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɑːt/
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• General-American: därt
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• General-American: /dɑɹt/
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• [daɹt̚] Ottawa Valley
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• [daɹɾ̥] Ottawa Valley
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)t
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From Proto-Brythonic *dar (“oak”). Cognate to the Darent.

Metonymic occupational surname for a maker of darts, from Middle English dart.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dherh3- Proto-Indo-European *dhórh3-eh2 Proto-Germanic *darō Proto-Germanic *-ōþuz Proto-Germanic *darōþuz Frankish *darōþubor. Medieval Latin dardus Old French dartbor. Middle English dart English dart From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dherh3- (“to leap, spring”). Compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).

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

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خزاقة (xizāqa) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Bulgarian: стреличка (strelička) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Catalan: dard — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Catalan: dardell — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Esperanto: sageto — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Finnish: tikka — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Finnish: keihäs — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Finnish: nuoli — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• French: dard — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• French: trait — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• French: flèche — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Galician: dardo — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Italian: dardo — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Korean: 다트 (dateu) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Korean: 투창 (tuchang) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Latin: rūna — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Lithuanian: smigis — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Macedonian: стреличка (strelička) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Macedonian: сулица (sulica) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Māori: neti — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Māori: neneti — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Māori: hōmata — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Māori: tārerarera — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Middle English: dart — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Norwegian: dart — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Norwegian: spyd — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Occitan: dard — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Occitan: vira — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Persian: خشت (xešt) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Persian: ناوک (nâvak) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Portuguese: dardo — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Russian: дро́тик (drótik) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Spanish: dardo — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Spanish: jáculo — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Spanish: venablo — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Spanish: azagaya — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Thai: ลูกดอก (lûuk-dɔ̀ɔk) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Turkish: kargı — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Ukrainian: дро́тик (drótyk) — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Volapük: jedot — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Welsh: saeth — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Welsh: dart — sharp-pointed missile weapon
• Finnish: tikari — figuratively: something that wounds like a dart
• Occitan: dard — figuratively: something that wounds like a dart
• Occitan: pica — figuratively: something that wounds like a dart
• Occitan: fissada — figuratively: something that wounds like a dart
• Armenian: սլանալ (slanal) — sudden or fast movement
• Finnish: singahdus — sudden or fast movement
• Catalan: pinça — stitched fold
• Chinese Mandarin: 顙道 /颡道 (sǎngdào) — stitched fold
• Finnish: laskos — stitched fold
• French: pli piqué — stitched fold
• French: pince — stitched fold
• German: Abnäher — stitched fold
• Italian: pince — stitched fold
• Māori: hoi — stitched fold
• Māori: whakahoi — stitched fold
• Romanian: pensă — stitched fold
• Russian: вы́тачка (výtačka) — stitched fold
• Serbo-Croatian: ušitak — stitched fold
• Spanish: pinza — stitched fold
• Bulgarian: дартс — game
• Finnish: tikkapeli — game
• Finnish: tikka — game
• French: fléchettes — game
• Italian: freccette — game
• Japanese: ダート (dāto) — game
• Japanese: ダーツ (dātsu) — game
• Korean: 다트 (dateu) — game
• Macedonian: пика́до (pikádo) — game
• Occitan: dards — game
• Persian: دارت (dârt) — game
• Polish: rzutki — game
• Portuguese: dardo — game
• Russian: дартс — game
• Russian: дро́тики (drótiki) — game
• Serbo-Croatian: pikado — game
• Spanish: dardo — game
• Bulgarian: мятам (mjatam) — to throw with a sudden effort
• Bulgarian: хвърлям (hvǎrljam) — to throw with a sudden effort
• Finnish: singota — to throw with a sudden effort
• Māori: kōkiri — to throw with a sudden effort
• Norwegian: kaste — to throw with a sudden effort
• Norwegian: kyle — to throw with a sudden effort
• Bulgarian: мятам (mjatam) — to throw suddenly or rapidly
• Bulgarian: хвърлям (hvǎrljam) — to throw suddenly or rapidly
• Finnish: singota — to throw suddenly or rapidly
• Norwegian: kaste — to throw suddenly or rapidly
• Norwegian: kyle — to throw suddenly or rapidly
• Bulgarian: спускам се (spuskam se) — to fly or pass swiftly
• Finnish: sinkoutua — to fly or pass swiftly
• Māori: kōtiu — to fly or pass swiftly
• Māori: kohema — to fly or pass swiftly
• Norwegian: skyte ut — to fly or pass swiftly
• Bulgarian: хуквам (hukvam) — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Finnish: sännätä — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Finnish: rynnätä — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Finnish: singahtaa — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Māori: kōtiutiu — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Māori: kōkiri — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Māori: kohema — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Norwegian: bykse — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Norwegian: lange ut — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Norwegian: komme i fullt firsprang — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along
• Turkish: fırlamak — to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along