different between nard vs gard

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

• IPA^(key): /???(?)d/
• Homophones: garde, guard

Etymology 1

Old English gard, northern variant of ?eard (whence yard).

Noun

gard (plural gards)

1. (obsolete) A garden.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of F. Beaumont to this entry?)

     Trees of the gard.

Etymology 2

Noun

gard (plural gards)

1. Obsolete spelling of guard

Verb

gard (third-person singular simple present gards, present participle garding, simple past and past participle garded)

1. Obsolete spelling of guard

Anagrams

• Grad, darg, drag, grad

Gothic

Romanization

gard

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?rd?.

Noun

gard m

1. city

Kholosi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ???? (gard).

Noun

gard ?

1. dust

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[1], pages 13-36

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French guarde.

Noun

gard

1. Alternative form of garde

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse garðr.

Noun

gard

1. Alternative form of garth

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from the root *g?erd?- (“to enclose”).

Noun

gard m (definite singular garden, indefinite plural garder, definite plural gardene)

1. alternative form of gård

Derived terms

• gardbruker
• gardsarbeid
• prestegard

References

• “gard” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from the root *g?erd?- (“to enclose”). Akin to English yard.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /???r/

Noun

gard m (definite singular garden, indefinite plural gardar, definite plural gardane)

1. farm
2. townhouse (often in the compound bygard)
3. fence (often in the compounds skigard or steingard)
4. courtyard

Derived terms

References

• “gard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• gardo

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from the root *g?erd?- (“to enclose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rd/

Noun

gard m

1. an enclosed place
2. yard, garden
3. court
4. region, land
5. dwelling

Descendants

• Middle Low German: gard
  • German Low German: Garrn

    Hamburgisch: Garrn

    Westphalian:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Gäurn

    Westmünsterländisch: Gaorden, Gaorn, Guorden, Guorn, Gurden

  • Plautdietsch: Goaden

Romanian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?- (“to enclose, to encircle”); possibly a substrate word from a Dacian *garda, akin to Albanian gardh (or borrowed from it), or more likely an early borrowing from Proto-Slavic *g?rd?, perhaps predating the metathesis occurring in Slavic languages (however this is uncertain as other related terms such as gr?din?, ograd?, îngr?di had already undergone it when borrowed from Slavic). Other suggested possibilities include a link to Proto-Germanic *gardaz.

Other Indo-European cognates include English garden, yard, gird, Sanskrit ??? (g?ha, “house, home”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (grad?), Gothic ???????????????????? (gards), German Garten, Danish gård and Norwegian gard, garde, gjerde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ard]

Noun

gard n (plural garduri)

1. fence

Declension

See also

• îngr?ditur? f

References

Volapük

Noun

gard (nominative plural gards)

1. guard

Declension