skirt

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
 * 2) The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
 * 3) A loose edging to any part of a dress.
 * 4) * July 27, 1713,, The Guardian no. 118
 * A narrow lace, or a small skirt of fine ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.
 * 1) A petticoat.
 * 2)  A woman.
 * 3)  Women collectively, in a sexual context.
 * 4)   with a woman.
 * 5) The border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
 * 6) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
 * 1)  Women collectively, in a sexual context.
 * 2)   with a woman.
 * 3) The border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
 * 4) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
 * 1) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
 * 1) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
 * 1) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
 * 1) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

Usage notes

 * It was formerly common to speak of “skirts” (plural) rather than “a skirt”. In some cases this served to emphasize an array of skirts of underskirts, or of pleats and folds in a single skirt; in other cases it made little or no difference in meaning.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تَنُّورَة, جُوب, خَرَّاطَة, وَزَرَة, جُونِلَّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جيبة
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܘܼܦܩܵܐ
 * Asturian:, saya
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Baluchi: دامن
 * Bashkir: итәк
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: စကတ်,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: palda
 * Chamicuro: ita'la
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏌᏃ
 * Chickasaw: naafka' tapa'
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 裙
 * Dungan: чүнзы
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 裙
 * Czech:
 * Danish: nederdel,
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: tjuosle
 * Esperanto: jupo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: skjúrt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ქვედაკაბა, ქვედატანი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: atequt
 * Haitian Creole: jip
 * Hausa: siket
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: स्कर्ट
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: hame
 * Irish: sciorta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: юбка
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ສິ້ນ,
 * Latgalian: snuotine
 * Latin: gunna
 * Latvian: svārki
 * Lithuanian: sijonas
 * Luxembourgish: Jupe
 * Macedonian: здолниште, здолница, сукња
 * Malay: skirt
 * Maltese: dublett
 * Maori: paki
 * Marathi: स्कर्ट
 * Mongolian:, юбка
 * Navajo: tłʼaakał
 * Neapolitan: vunnella
 * Norman: cotelle, cotillon
 * Northern Sami: vuolpu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: stakk, skjørt,
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ସ୍କର୍ଟ
 * Old English: scyrte
 * Papiamentu: saya
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Rock
 * Polabian: tåbat
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: rotya
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: rassa
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgiorta
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сукња
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kóšula, kóšulka
 * Upper Sorbian: suknja, suknička
 * Spanish:, ,  ,
 * Swahili: sketi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: palda
 * Tajik: доман
 * Taos: yúwolaną
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýubka, etek
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: سکرٹ
 * Uyghur: يوپكا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: sgert, sgertiau
 * Yami: sikato
 * Yiddish: ספּאָדניצע, ספּודניצע, יופּע, קליידל
 * Zazaki: pêş


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: nederdel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: jupo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: niðurpartur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: helma
 * Interlingua: gonna
 * Irish: sciorta, íochtar
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: svārki
 * Luxembourgish: Jupe
 * Maltese: dublett
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: læppa
 * Ottoman Turkish: اتك, دامن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, ,  ,
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük:
 * Zazaki: gınc


 * Finnish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: фу́ста
 * Czech:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Weiberrock
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: اكسك اتك
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жена
 * Roman:
 * Swedish: kjoltyg


 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:, reunama, ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: یاقه
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Mongolian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:
 * Zulu:

Verb

 * 1) To be on or form the border of.
 * 2) To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
 * 3) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
 * 4)  To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
 * 1) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
 * 2)  To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
 * 1) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
 * 2)  To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
 * 1) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
 * 2)  To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
 * 1)  To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
 * 1)  To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Interlingua: costear, contornar
 * Italian:
 * Maori: taku
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: граничити
 * Roman:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Maori: hohoni, taku, honi
 * Russian:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * German:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,

Etymology
From.