polo shirt
English
/ˈpəʊləʊ ˌʃɜːt/, /ˈpoʊloʊ ˌʃɝt/
noun
Definitions
- A casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar and a small number of buttons extending a short distance below the collar (and not all the way down the front of the shirt).
Etymology
Compound from English polo (ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponents goal) + English shirt.
Origin
English
shirt
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Blueshirt English
- Brownshirt English
- Shirtgate English
- blackshirt English
- greenshirt English
- hairshirt English
- nether-shirt English
- nightshirt English
- overshirt English
- polo English
- polo-neck English
- poloist English
- redshirt English
- shirt English
- shirtdress English
- shirted English
- shirtfront English
- shirtful English
- shirting English
- shirtless English
- shirtlike English
- shirtmaker English
- shirtmaking English
- shirttail English
- shirtwaist English
- shirtwaister English
- shirtwise English
- shirty English
- sleepshirt English
- sweatshirt English
- undershirt English
- white-shirt English
- workshirt English
- poolo Finnish
- Polohemd German
- Poloshirt German
- shirt Dutch, Flemish
- polo Norwegian Bokmål
- シャツ Japanese
- ポロ Japanese
- ポロシャツ Japanese
- polo Norwegian Nynorsk
- sherte Middle English
- póló Irish
- polo tričko Czech
- polokošile Czech
- polotriko Czech
- polotričko Czech
- pólo Czech
- โปโล Thai
- polo Cebuano
- 恤衫 Chinese
- 裇 Chinese
- shati Swahili
- 셔츠 Korean
- 폴로 Korean
- শার্ট Bengali
- siot Tok Pisin
- holo Hausa
- shat Hausa
- sat Fiji Hindi
- jaat Martuthunira
- پولو Balti
- པོ་ལོ Balti
- sati Luo
- polo
- shirt
- shirty
- shirted
- poloist
- shirting
- redshirt
- shirtful
- shirtlike
- Shirtgate
- Blueshirt
- shirttail
- overshirt
- shirtless
- shirtwise
- hairshirt
- workshirt
- polo-neck
- blackshirt
- shirtdress
- sweatshirt
- Brownshirt
- nightshirt
- shirtmaker
- sleepshirt
- shirtfront
- greenshirt
- shirtwaist
- undershirt
- shirtmaking
- white-shirt
- shirtwaister
- nether-shirt