albarda

Galician

Etymology

From Arabic البَرْدَعَة (al-bardaʕa), variant of البَرْذَعَة (al-barḏaʕa, “packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈbaɾda/ [ɑlˈβ̞aɾ.ð̞ɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾda

Noun

albarda m (plural albardas)

1. packsaddle
   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 357:

     foran en tomar aos mercadores e tauerneiros d'Arçúa et das Duas Casas viinte e hun roçín d'albardas con senos aparellos

     they went and took from the merchants and innkeepers of Arzúa and Dúas Casas twenty-one packsaddle nags with their respective tacks

Derived terms

• albardar
• albardeiro
• albardón

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “albarda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “albarda”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “albarda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “albarda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “albarda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Arabic البَرْدَعَة (al-bardaʕa), variant of البَرْذَعَة (al-barḏaʕa, “packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈbaɦ.dɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈbaɦ.dɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /awˈbaɾ.dɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈbaɾ.dɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /awˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈbaʁ.dɐ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /awˈbaɻ.dɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈbaɻ.dɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈbaʁ.da/ [aʊ̯ˈbaɦ.da]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /alˈbaɾ.dɐ/ [aɫˈβaɾ.ðɐ]

Noun

albarda f (plural albardas)

1. aparejo, packsaddle

Derived terms

• albardão
• albardar
• albardeira
• albardeiro
• albardilha

Further reading

• “albarda”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “albarda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Etymology 2

Verb

albarda

1. inflection of albardar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic البَرْدَعَة (al-bardaʕa), variant of البَرْذَعَة (al-barḏaʕa, “packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈbaɾda/ [alˈβ̞aɾ.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾda
• Syllabification: al‧bar‧da

Noun

albarda f (plural albardas)

1. packsaddle

Derived terms

• albarda sobre aparejo
• albardar
• albardón

Further reading

• “albarda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025