T-shirt

See also: t-shirt and T-Shirt

English

A T-Shirt with the Wikipedia logo

Alternative forms

• t-shirt
• tee shirt
• tee-shirt
• teeshirt

Etymology

From its shape, 1920s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːʃɜːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːʃɚt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

T-shirt (plural T-shirts)

2. (clothing) A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.

   Synonym: tee

   Many bands make more money from T-shirt sales than from sale of tickets.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

3. (dated) An undershirt.

Derived terms

• been there, done that, bought the T-shirt
• concert T-shirt
• pocket T-shirt
• ringer T-shirt
• T-shirtable
• T-shirt bra
• T-shirt dress
• T-shirted
• wet t-shirt competition, wet t-shirt contest

Descendants

• → Cantonese: T恤 (ti¹ seot¹)
• → Danish: T-shirt
• → Dutch: T-shirt
• → German: T-shirt
• → Gulf Arabic: تيشيرت (tīšērt)
• → Japanese: Tシャツ (tī-shatsu)
• → Korean: 티셔츠 (tisyeocheu)
• → Mandarin: T恤 (tì xù)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: T-shirt
• → Norwegian Bokmål: T-skjorte, T-trøye (calque)
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: T-skjorte (calque)
• → Swedish: T-shirt
• → Swedish: T-tröja (calque)
• → Turkish: tişört

Translations

type of shirt

• Afrikaans: T-hemp
• Albanian: bluzë sportive f
• Arabic: تِي شِيرْت m (tī šīrt)

  Egyptian Arabic: تشرت m (tešert)

  Gulf Arabic: تيشيرت m (tīšērt)

• Armenian: մարզաշապիկ (hy) (marzašapik)
• Azerbaijani: futbolka, tenniska
• Belarusian: футбо́лка f (futbólka), цішо́тка f (cišótka), тэ́ніска f (téniska)
• Bengali: টি-শার্ট (bn) (ṭi-śarṭo), গেঞ্জি (bn) (genji)
• Bulgarian: те́ниска (bg) f (téniska), спо́ртна блу́за f (spórtna blúza), по́тник (bg) m (pótnik)
• Burmese: တီရှပ် (tihrap)
• Catalan: samarreta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: T恤 (ti¹ seot¹)

  Mandarin: T恤衫 (zh) (tī-xùshān), T恤 (zh) (tī-xù), 體恤衫／体恤衫 (zh) (tǐxùshān), 汗衫 (zh) (hànshān), 文化衫 (wénhuàshān)

• Czech: tričko (cs) n, triko (cs) n
• Danish: T-shirt c, t-shirt c (unofficial, but common form)
• Dutch: T-shirt (nl) n
• Esperanto: T-ĉemizo (eo)
• Estonian: T-särk (et)
• Fijian: siqeleti
• Finnish: t-paita (fi)
• French: T-shirt (fr) m, tee-shirt (fr) m, t-shirt (fr) m, ticheurte (fr) m (colloquial), chandail (fr) m (Québec)
• Georgian: მაისური (maisuri)
• German: T-Shirt (de) n
• Greek: τι σερτ (el) n (ti sert), μπλουζάκι (el) n (blouzáki), φανελάκι (el) n (faneláki), κοντομάνικο (el) n (kontomániko)
• Hebrew: חֻלְצַת טִי f, טִי שֶׁרְט m, חֻלְצַת טְרִיקוֹ (he) f (ẖultzát triqó)
• Hindi: टी-शर्ट f (ṭī-śarṭ), टीशर्ट f (ṭīśarṭ), टी शर्ट f (ṭī śarṭ)
• Hungarian: póló (hu), trikó (hu)
• Icelandic: bolur (is) m, stuttermabolur m
• Indonesian: kaus (id), baju kaus (id), kaus oblong (id)
• Irish: t-léine
• Italian: maglietta (it) f
• Japanese: Tシャツ (ja) (tī-shatsu), ティーシャツ (ja) (tī-shatsu)
• Kazakh: футболка (futbolka), тенниска (tenniska), майка (maika)
• Khmer: អាវយឺត (ʼaaw yɨɨt)
• Korean: 티셔츠 (ko) (tisyeocheu), T 셔츠 (T syeocheu), 티 (ko) (ti)
• Kyrgyz: футболка (futbolka), тенниска (tenniska), майка (mayka)
• Lao: ເສື້ອຄໍມົນ (sư̄a khǭ mon)
• Latvian: t-krekls m
• Lithuanian: marškinėliai m pl, maikė f
• Macedonian: маица f (maica)
• Malay: kemeja-T
• Maltese: tixert, flokk (mt) m
• Maori: Tī hāte
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: футболк (futbolk), подвоолк (podvoolk)

• Norman: t-corset m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: t-skjorte (no) m or f, T-skjorte m or f

  Nynorsk: t-skjorte f, T-skjorte f

• Pannonian Rusyn: маїца f (majica)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تی‌شِرْت (ti-šert)

• Polish: koszulka (pl) f, T-shirt (pl) m
• Portuguese: camiseta (pt) f, t-shirt (pt) f
• Romanian: tricou (ro) n
• Russian: футбо́лка (ru) f (futbólka), те́нниска (ru) f (tɛ́nniska), ма́йка (ru) f (májka), тишо́тка m (tišótka)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: lèine-T f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̏јица f

  Roman: mȁjica (sh) f

• Slovak: tielko n, tričko n
• Slovene: majica f
• Spanish: camiseta (es) f, (Costa Rica) chema m, (Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela) franela (es) f, (Guatemala, Mexico) playera (es) f, (Peru) polo (es) m, (Bolivia, Chile) polera (es) f, (Cuba) pulóver (es) m, (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) remera (es) f, (Panama) suéter (es) m, (Puerto Rico, United States) T-shirt (es) m
• Swahili: tisheti
• Swedish: t-shirt (sv) c, t-tröja c, T-skjorta (sv) c (rare except in Finland)
• Tajik: футболка (futbolka), тенниска (tenniska), майка (mayka)
• Tamil: கொசுவுசட்டை (kocuvucaṭṭai)
• Thai: เสื้อยืด (sʉ̂ʉa-yʉ̂ʉt)
• Tongan: falani
• Turkish: tişört (tr)
• Ukrainian: футбо́лка f (futbólka), те́ніска f (téniska), ма́йка (uk) f (májka), тішо́тка f (tišótka)
• Urdu: ٹِی شَرْٹ f (ṭī śarṭ)
• Uzbek: futbolka (uz), tenniska (uz), mayka (uz)
• Venetan: maja (vec) f, majeta (vec) f
• Vietnamese: áo thun (vi)
• Welsh: crys-t m, crysau-t m pl
• Yiddish: לײַבל n (laybl)

Further reading

• T-shirt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• thirst, thrist

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English T-shirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ʃərt/, [ˈti.ʃəɹt]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: T‧shirt

Noun

T-shirt n (plural T-shirts, diminutive T-shirtje n)

1. T-shirt

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English T-shirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʃɛʁt/, /ti.ʃœʁt/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland):

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Noun

T-shirt m (plural T-shirts)

1. Alternative spelling of tee-shirt

Further reading

• “T-shirt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English T-shirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ʂɛrt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iʂɛrt
• Syllabification: T-‧shirt

Noun

T-shirt m inan

1. T-shirt (lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar)

   Synonym: koszulka

Declension

Declension of T-shirt

	singular	plural
nominative	T-shirt	T-shirty
genitive	T-shirtu	T-shirtów
dative	T-shirtowi	T-shirtom
accusative	T-shirt	T-shirty
instrumental	T-shirtem	T-shirtami
locative	T-shircie	T-shirtach
vocative	T-shircie	T-shirty

Further reading

• T-shirt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

T-shirt c

1. Alternative letter-case form of t-shirt (“T-shirt”)

   Synonym: T-tröja

Declension

Declension of T-shirt

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	T-shirt	T-shirts
	definite	T-shirten	T-shirtens
plural	indefinite	T-shirtar, T-shirts	T-shirtars, T-shirts
	definite	T-shirtarna	T-shirtarnas

References

• T-shirt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• T-shirt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• T-shirt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)