kvart

From Latin quārtus (“fourth”), from quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).

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kvart (plural and definite singular attributive kvarte)

1. a quarter of, quarter-

kvart c (singular definite kvarten, plural indefinite kvarter)

1. quarter (one of four equal parts)

   Synonym: fjerdedel c

2. (music) fourth (interval)
3. quarto (book size, paper size)
4. (fencing) quarte

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

kvart (musikk)

Wikipedia ^no

From Latin quartus.

kvart (neuter singular kvart, definite singular and plural kvarte)

1. a quarter of

   en kvart kilo ― a quarter (of a) kilo

kvart m (definite singular kvarten, indefinite plural kvarter, definite plural kvartene)

1. a quarter (one of four equal parts)

   kvart over ― quarter past

   kvart på ― quarter to

2. a fourth (music, interval on diatonic scale)

• kvartfinale

• “kvart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kvart_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “kvart_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

kvart i musikk

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

• IPA^(key): /kʋɑrt/

From Latin quartus.

kvart (neuter singular kvart, definite singular and plural kvarte)

1. a quarter of

   ein kvart kilo ― a quarter (of a) kilo

kvart m (definite singular kvarten, indefinite plural kvartar, definite plural kvartane)

1. a quarter (one of four equal parts)

   kvart over ― quarter past

   kvart på ― quarter to

2. a fourth (music, interval on diatonic scale)

• kvartfinale

kvart

1. neuter singular of kvar

• “kvart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse hvart, from hvar (“where”) (whence kvar) + at (“to”) (whence åt). Cognate with Icelandic hvert and Swedish vart.

• kort, hort (dialectal)

kvart

1. whither, whereto

   kvart skal eg gå?

   whither am I to walk?

• “kvart”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “kvart” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

From German Quart.

• IPA^(key): /kʋârt/

kvȁrt m inan (Cyrillic spelling ква̏рт)

1. neighborhood, area

Borrowed from Italian quarto.

• IPA^(key): /kwâːrt/

kvart m

1. part of something
   • 2010, Luigi Peca, La guerre à Acquaviva:

     Na jena kvart, di jimahma kobilu, ne biša več hiža, bi sa sfunala.

     In one part, where we had the mare, the house wasn’t there anymore, it had collapsed.

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

kvart

Wikipedia ^sv

From French quart, from Latin quartus, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeturtos ~ *kʷetwr̥tos.

• IPA^(key): /kvɑːrt/,

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• Rhymes: -ɑːʈ

kvart c

1. (normally used in genitive: kvarts) a quarter (one of four equal parts)

   Helsingfors har en och en kvarts miljon invånare.

   Helsinki has one and a quarter million inhabitants.

2. a quarter of an hour, 15 minutes
3. (colloquial) a (small, shabby) lodging, often an apartment

• kvarter
• kvarting
• kvarts

• kvart in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kvart in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kvart in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)