Swart
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swart¹
- /ˈswɔːt/ UK
- /ˈswɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd-. Doublet of Schwarz.
adjective swarter · swartest
- Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. 1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
- Black.
- Gloomy; malignant. Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
noun
- Black or dark dyestuff.
swart²
- /ˈswɔːt/ UK
- /ˈswɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
From Middle English swarten, from Old English sweartian, from Proto-West Germanic *swartōn, from Proto-Germanic *swartōną. By surface analysis, swart + -en.
verb swarts · swarting · swarted
- To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan. to swart a living part
swart³
- /ˈswɔːt/ UK
- /ˈswɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
Variant of sward.
noun
- Obsolete spelling of sward.sward Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould
swart⁴
- /ˈswɔːt/ UK
- /ˈswɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
noun swarts
- Variant of swath.swath
Swart⁵
Where it comes from
English and Dutch surname, from swart (“dark-haired, dark-skinned, swarthy”).
proper noun Swarts
- A surname.
