shark

sharku (definite)
shark (indefinite nominative singular)
sharku (definite nominative singular)
sharqe (indefinite nominative plural)
sharqet (definite nominative plural)
shark (accusative indefinite singular)
sharkun (accusative definite singular)
sharqe (accusative indefinite plural)
sharqet (accusative definite plural)
sharku (dative indefinite singular)
sharkut (dative definite singular)
sharqeve (dative indefinite plural)
sharqeve (dative definite plural)
sharku (ablative indefinite singular)
sharkut (ablative definite singular)
sharqesh (ablative indefinite plural)
sharqeve (ablative definite plural)


shark

shell (of certain fruits like nuts, hazel, chestnut etc)

skin (that covers the seed of certain fruits like peach, grape, prunes etc)


shark

The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, …. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.

1569, The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix., a broadside printed in London, the second earliest known use of the term; reprinted in A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597 in 1867

He said he had spoken to a woman who was kayaking off Catalina Island, California, in 2008 when a shark slammed her kayak from underneath and sent her flying into the air. She then landed on the back of the shark, Collier said. "At that point the shark started to swim out to sea, so she jumped off its back," Collier said.

2011 October 13, AP, “Man 'surfs' great white shark”, in The Guardian:

(ichthyology, countable) Any scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

(uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.

(countable) Various other fishes that resemble true sharks in appearance and/or behaviour:

(inexact) A ghost shark, also called a chimaera (any fish in order Chimaeriformes)

(inexact) A spiny shark (any extinct fish in the paraphyletic grade †Acanthodii, which is also considered a class.)

An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).

Dawkinsia denisonii
Dawkinsia denisonii#Translingual

Pangasius sanitwongsei
Pangasius sanitwongsei#Translingual

A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).

Cucullia umbratica
Cucullia umbratica#Translingual

(countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.

(UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.

en-noun

shark (countable and uncountable, plural sharks)

Shark meat
Thomas Beckington
shark
shark (moth)

From Middle English shark (used by Thomas Beckington in 1442 to refer to a kind of fish), of uncertain origin. Most likely from a semantic extension of the German-derived shark (“scoundrel”), see below. The fish was originally called a dogfish or haye in English and Middle English.
alternative theories
Some older dictionaries derived the word from Latin c(h)archarias, c(h)acharus (from Ancient Greek), but admit that "the requisite [Old French] forms intermediate between E. shark and L. carcharus are not found, and it is not certain that the name [shark] was orig. applied to the fish; it may have been first used of a greedy man".
Other older authorities speculated that the word might derive from Yucatec Maya xok (“fish”) (/ʃok/), as John Hawkins brought a specimen from the area where Mayan was spoken to England in the 1560s. However, the 1442 use rules out a New World origin for the word.

shock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)


shark

(UK, university slang) Of a university student who is not a fresher: to engage in sexual activity with a fresher, or to be at a bar or club with the general intention of engaging in such activity.

en-verb

shark (third-person singular simple present sharks, present participle sharking, simple past and past participle sharked)

sharks (present singular third-person)
sharking (participle present)
sharked (participle past)
sharked (past)


shark

“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 85:

Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.

(informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.

(informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.

In the event they lacked a proper midfield bolt, with Toni Kroos and Sami Khedira huffing around in pursuit of the whizzing green machine. The centre-backs looked flustered, left to deal with three on two as Mexico broke. Löw’s 4-2-3-1 seemed antiquated and creaky, with the old World Cup shark Thomas Müller flat-footed in a wide position.

2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-05:

(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.

A person that excels in a particular field.

(informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).

(sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

hustler

player who feigns ineptitude to win money

From German Schurke (“scoundrel”); compare Dutch schurk.


shark

(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.

Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.

(obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Ah Captaine, lay not all the fault upon Officers you know you can ſhark though you be out of action, witneſſe Montague.

1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, pages 161–162:

But a good man ſhall be ſatisfied from himſelf] For he hath a ſpring vvithin his ovvn breaſt, he needs not ſharke abroad: he hath an autarkie, a ſelf-ſufficiency, 1 Tim[othy] 6.6.

1650, John Trapp, “A Commentary or Exposition upon the Proverbs of Solomon. [Chapter XIV.]”, in Solomonis Πανάρετος: Or, A Commentarie upon the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs. […], London: […] T[homas] R[atcliffe] and E[dward] M[ottershead] for John Bellamie, […], →OCLC, page 147:

(obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.


shark

Fortenbraſſe […] Hath […] Sharkt vp a ſight of lawleſſe Reſolutes […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Probably from the "steal" senses above, but perhaps related to shear. Compare shirk.


shark

In mare contigebat le calm, et circiter horam vijᵃᵐ in sero per æstimationem navem sequebatur piscis vocatus le Shark, qui quidem piscis percutiebatur bis cum uno harpingyren et recessit; […]

1442, Thomas Beckington, edited by George Williams, Memorials of the Reign of King Henry VI. Official Correspondence of Thomas Bekynton, Secretary to King Henry VI., and Bishop of Bath and Wells., volume II (in Latin), London: Longman & Co., and Trübner & Co., […], published 1872, page 184:

English: shark