fart

From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English *feortan (in feorting (verbal noun)), from Proto-Germanic *fertaną (compare German farzen, furzen, Norwegian Bokmål fjert), from Proto-Indo-European *perd-, *pérde. Cognate to Welsh rhech, Albanian pjerdh, Russian перде́ть (perdétʹ), French péter, Ancient Greek πέρδομαι (pérdomai), Sanskrit पर्दते (párdate).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /fɑːt/
• (General American) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /fɑɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

fart (third-person singular simple present farts, present participle farting, simple past and past participle farted)

1. (informal, mildly vulgar, intransitive) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:flatulate

   • 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy:

     I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?

2. (colloquial, intransitive, usually as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.

   Synonyms: futz, fool around, fool about

3. (figuratively, transitive) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
   • 1988, Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, 1989, Chapter 95, p. 457,

     Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.

   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, New York: Riverhead Books, p. 139,

     We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.

fart (plural farts)

1. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. [from 15th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad […].

2. (colloquial, vulgar) An irritating person; a fool.
3. (colloquial, vulgar, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.

• burp
• flatulence
• flatulent
• flatus
• queef
• wind

• RTFA, TRAF, frat, raft, traf

From Latin fartus.

fart (feminine farta, masculine plural farts, feminine plural fartes)

1. stuffed
2. fed up

From Middle Low German vart, from Old Saxon fard, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz. See also Swedish färd, Dutch vaart, German Fahrt.

• IPA^(key): /fart/, [fɑːˀd̥]

fart c (singular definite farten, plural indefinite farter)

1. (uncountable) speed

   Mange trafikulykker sker på grund af for høj fart.

   Many accidents happen because of excessive speed.

2. (physics) speed (magnitude of velocity, if seen as a vector)
3. (sailing) trip; journey; trade.

   Der er en stigning i antallet af farter mellem Asien og Europa.

   There is an increase in the number of trades between Asia and Europe.

   At være på farten

   To be on the move.

• (speed, in non-technical contexts): hastighed

• “fart” in Den Danske Ordbog

Probably from Norwegian fart (“travel, velocity, speed”), from Middle Low German vart, Old High German vart, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz. Related to German Fahrt (“journey, ride”).

• IPA^(key): /faʁ/

fart m (plural farts)

1. wax (for skis)

• “fart” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Danish fart.

• IPA^(key): /far̥t/
• Rhymes: -ar̥t

fart f (genitive singular fartar, no plural)

1. (informal) speed

   Það er nú meiri fartin á þér, drengur!

   My, you sure seem to be in a hurry, son!

From Middle Low German vart, related to fare (“fare, travel”).

fart m (definite singular farten, indefinite plural farter, definite plural fartene)

1. velocity, speed
2. movement, motion
3. transportation
4. high speed, vigor, drive

• (velocity): hastighet, tempo
• (movement): bevegelse, gang
• (transportation): ferdsel, reise, tur
• (high speed, vigor): fres, driv, liv

fart

1. past participle of fare

• “fart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fart” in The Ordnett Dictionary

From Middle Low German vart.

• IPA^(key): /fɑrt/

fart m (definite singular farten, indefinite plural fartar, definite plural fartane)

1. speed, velocity
2. movement, motion
3. transport, transportation, traffic

• “fart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• vart

From Proto-Germanic *fardiz, whence also Old English fyrd, Old Norse ferð.

fart f

1. trip
2. ride

• German: Fahrt

• IPA^(key): /fart/

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fart m inan

1. (colloquial) luck
2. (colloquial) fluke; stroke of luck

• (luck): szczęście
• (fluke): fuks, łut szczęścia

• (luck): niefart, pech

• fart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Middle Low German vart, from Old Saxon fard, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz. Cognate with Swedish färd, Dutch vaart, German Fahrt.

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fart c

1. speed
   • 1917, Bible, Jeremiah 48:16:

     Snart kommer Moabs ofärd, och hans olycka hastar fram med fart.

     Soon comes Moab’s calamity, and his misery hastes with speed.

• As a suffix in certain compounds (listed separately below) this word takes on the meaning of "road", "ramp" or "journey", just like German Fahrt or Swedish färd, rather than the standalone meaning of speed. Similar compounds with the suffix -färd exist, with slightly different meaning.
• In many compounds and in more formal or scientific use, speed translates to hastighet (“velocity”) rather than fart.

• fartbegränsning
• farthinder
• fartkamera
• fartkontroll

compounds with the meaning of road, ramp, or journey

• avfart
• infart
• överfart
• påfart
• tillfart
• underfart
• utfart

• fort
• hastighet