English Explanatory Dictionary

sharn

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.

Word forms

sharn shairn shearn shern

Etymology

From Middle English scharn, from Old English sċearn (“sharn, dung, muck, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker- (“dung, manure”). Cognate with North Frisian skern (“dung, manure”), Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic skarn (“dung”), German Harn (“urine”). Doublet of skarn.

Derived words

sharnbod sharny
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