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English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /n??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit ??? (nálada, “Indian narde”). Doublet of nardus.

Noun

nard (countable and uncountable, plural nards)

1. Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
2. A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
3. American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.

Synonyms

• nardus (obsolete)
• (Nardostachys jatamansi): nardin, muskroot

Derived terms

• spikenard

References

• nard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nardostachys jatamansi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nardostachys+jatamansi at The Plant List
• nard at OneLook Dictionary Search
• nard, in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1987.

Etymology 2

Alteration of nuts (“testicles”) or nads (“gonads”).

Noun

nard (plural nards)

1. (US, 1980s, slang, usually in the plural) Testicles.

   The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!

Synonyms

• (testicles): balls, nuts

Anagrams

• -andr-, DNAR, DNRA, RAND, Rand, andr-, darn, rDNA, rand, rdna

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin nardus (“spikenard”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?na?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?nart/

Noun

nard m (plural nards)

1. tuberose (Agave amica)

Further reading

• “nard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin nardus.

Noun

nard m (plural nards)

1. (botany) matgrass (Nardus)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “nard” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “nard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (nárdos), from Phoenician, from Sanskrit ??? (nálada, “Indian narde”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nârd/

Noun

n?rd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. nard (plant or oil)

References

• “nard” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Volapük

Noun

nard (nominative plural nards)

1. valerian

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): [b??d]
• Rhymes: -??(r)d

Etymology 1

(15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?erH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin gr?tus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit ?????? (g???ti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (žr?ti, “to sacrifice”).

Noun

bard (plural bards)

1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
   • 1837, Richard LLWYD, "The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, the Bard of Snowdon

     "He is a Welsh bard, and a man full of animation, anecdote, and independence; […] "

2. (by extension) A poet.

   Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.

Derived terms

• bardic
• Bard

Translations

Etymology 2

From French barde. English since the late 15th century.

Noun

bard (plural bards)

1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
2. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
3. (cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
5. Specifically, Peruvian bark.

Translations

Verb

bard (third-person singular simple present bards, present participle barding, simple past and past participle barded)

1. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 29:

     The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded, consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece.

2. (cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

Anagrams

• Brad, brad, darb, drab

Catalan

Noun

bard m (plural bards)

1. bard (a professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts)

Further reading

• “bard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bard” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “bard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed either from German Barde or English bard. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?erH- (“praise”). Cognate with Latin gr?tus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit ?????? (g???ti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (žr?ti, “to sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?rt/
• Hyphenation: bard
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

bard m (plural barden)

1. bard, Celtic poet, singer

French

Etymology

From Middle French bard, from Old French béart, bayart, baiart, boieart, boyart, bayard (“stretcher”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unattested *berard, from Frankish *berhard (“carrier”), from Frankish *beran (“to carry”) + *-hard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Noun

bard m (plural bards)

1. (dated) A sort of stretcher, with no wheels, used for transporting materials
2. (dated) A sawhorse

Synonyms

• bayard
• (sawhorse): tréteau

Irish

Alternative forms

• bárd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /b?????d??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /b?æ???d??/

Noun

bard m (genitive singular baird, nominative plural baird)

1. poet (of a certain rank); bard
2. scold

Declension

Derived terms

• filíocht na mbard (“bardic poetry”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "bard" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bard”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “bárd” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 60.

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *parta, borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bard???, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ard?éh?.

Noun

bard

1. beard

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (bard).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bart/

Noun

bard m (plural brud)

1. cold; cold weather

See also

• kiesa?

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos.

Noun

bard m (genitive singular ?, plural bardyn)

1. bard
2. poet

Mutation

Synonyms

• bardagh
• bardoonagh

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• barde

Etymology

From Old Norse barð.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??r/, /b?rd/

Noun

bard m (definite singular barden, indefinite plural bardar, definite plural bardane)

1. a edge, rim, (river)bank

Further reading

• “bard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bardos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bar?d/

Noun

bard m (genitive baird, nominative plural baird)

1. bard
2. poet

Inflection

Synonyms

• éices
• fer cerda
• fili
• túar

Descendants

• Irish: bard
• Manx: bard
• Scottish Gaelic: bàrd
  • ? English: bard

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bard”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bart/

Noun

bard m pers

1. poet, songster

   Synonyms: poeta, piewca, wieszcz

2. (historical) bard (professional Celtic poet and singer whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men)

Declension

Further reading

• bard in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• bard in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French barde, from Latin bardus.

Noun

bard m (plural barzi)

1. bard

Declension

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *parta, borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bard???, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ard?éh?.

Noun

bard

1. beard