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[edit] Noun

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Singular
bard

Plural
bards

bard (plural bards)

  1. A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
    • 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: <http://www.classicallibrary.org/aristotle/metaphysics/>. Book 1, Part 2.
      But the divine power cannot be jealous (nay, according to the proverb, 'bards tell a lie'),
  2. Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
  3. (armor) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
  4. (armor) Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  5. (Cookery) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  6. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  7. Specifically, Peruvian bark.

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Infinitive
to bard

Third person singular
bards

Simple past
barded

Past participle
barded

Present participle
barding

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

  1. (armor) 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. (Cookery) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish bard < Proto-Celtic *bardo-s.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: [bˠaːɾˠd̪ˠ]

[edit] Noun

bard m.

  1. bard
  2. poet

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First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bard baird
Vocative a bhaird a bharda
Genitive baird bard
Dative bard baird

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bard na baird
Genitive an bhaird na mbard
Dative leis an mbard

don bhard

leis na baird

[edit] Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bard bhard mbard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

[edit] Maltese

[edit] Etymology

From Arabic بارد (bārid).

[edit] Adjective

bard

  1. cold

[edit] Manx

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish bard < Proto-Celtic *bardo-s.

[edit] Noun

bard

  1. bard
  2. poet

[edit] Old Irish

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bardo-s.

[edit] Noun

bard

  1. bard
  2. poet

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