different between nard vs lard

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

lard (countable and uncountable, plural lards)

1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
2. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
3. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.
   • 2020, Sophie Ranald, Thank You, Next: A perfect, uplifting and funny romantic comedy

     My wonderful partner is fond of pointing out that he and I have done the Covid crisis on easy mode: we have no children, no caring responsibilities, […] we have a fabulous community of people at our local fitness studio to keep the lockdown lard at bay and the cats love joining us for afternoon naps.

Translations

Verb

lard (third-person singular simple present lards, present participle larding, simple past and past participle larded)

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
2. To smear with fat or lard.
   • 1740, William Somervile, Hobbinol

     In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.

3. To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
4. To fatten; to enrich.

   • [The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
6. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
   • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

     Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

Derived terms

• lardaceous
• lardass
• lardball
• lardboy
• lardbucket
• lardbutt
• enlard
• larding needle
• lardlike
• lardless
• lardoon
• lardy
• leaf lard
• overlard
• tub of lard
• unlarded

Translations

Anagrams

• ARLD, LDAR, LRAD, darl

French

Etymology

From Old French lard, from Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?/

Noun

lard m (plural lards)

1. bacon
2. lard

Further reading

• “lard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m (oblique plural larz or lartz, nominative singular larz or lartz, nominative plural lard)

1. cut of meat from a pig
2. lard (fatty substance)

Descendants

• ? English: lard
• French: lard

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard n (plural larduri)

1. (regional) bacon
2. (regional) pig-fat

Declension

Synonyms

• sl?nin?

Derived terms

• l?rdos
• l?rdar

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m

1. (Puter) bacon

Synonyms

• charnpüerch
• panzetta