- Wark is a Scots noun for a building, from the noun wark [wark, wA:rk] (work). The verb form is wirk [wIrk, wVrk]. The past tense is wrocht [wroxt].
- "Wark" is a common onomatopoeia for the sound a chicken makes. This sound is also the most common sound a Chocobo makes in the Final Fantasy series of video games. Finally, it is also the sound Pen^2, from Evangelion, makes.