different between sard vs sarn

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

Noun

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorðan, borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

Verb

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

1. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).

   Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Further reading

• John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101

Anagrams

• ADRs, ARDS, RDS.A, SADR, Sadr, ards, dars, rads

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sa?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?sart/

Etymology 1

From Latin sardus.

Adjective

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)

Noun

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)

1. Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)

sard m (uncountable)

1. Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

Related terms

• Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

Etymology 2

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.

Noun

sard m (plural sards)

1. white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)

   Synonym: sarg

Further reading

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

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

Adjective

sard (sard)

1. cold

English

Etymology

Welsh sarn (“a causeway, paving”).

This SARN could be linked to the Latin root of STRATA that gave ESTRÉE in Old French "road". In that case SARN might have been an ancient *STERNA/STARNA/STRANA/STRONA "thing that is strewn". This root is indo-european.

Noun

sarn (plural sarns)

1. (Britain, dialect) A pavement or stepping stone.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Arns, Nasr, RNAS, RNAs, sRNA, snar, srna

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sarn/

Noun

sarn f

1. genitive plural of sarna

   Synonym: saren

Further reading

• sarn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish saarna.

Noun

sarn

1. tale