barda

See also: Appendix:Variations of "barda"

Catalan

Etymology

From a pre-Roman and perhaps pre-Indo-European substrate word *barda "brambles, branches" and, by extension, an enclosure reinforced with them.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbar.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbaɾ.ða]

Noun

barda f (plural bardes)

1. fold, pen (enclosure for domestic animals)
2. slope

Derived terms

• bardissa

Further reading

• “barda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.da/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Noun

barda m (plural bardas)

1. (military) gear
2. (informal) luggage, loading
3. (Quebec, slang) mess, jumble

Verb

barda

1. third-person singular past historic of barder

Further reading

• “barda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• brada

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɾðɐ]

Etymology 1

From Paleo-Hispanic, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *wradyos (compare Welsh gwraidd, "root").

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. hedge

   Synonyms: bardal, sebe

2. stake for fencing; flagstone

   Synonyms: chanto, estaca, vargo

3. haystack

Derived terms

• Barda

Related terms

• bardado
• bardal
• bardanca
• bardar
• bardasca
• bardo
• embarda
• embardar

Etymology 2

From Arabic بَرْدَة (barda), ultimately from Middle Persian pltk' (pardag). Compare to Persian پرده (parde), Old Armenian պարտակ (partak), and Classical Syriac ܦܪܕܩܐ (pardəqā).

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. a piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “barda”, 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), “barda”, 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), “barda (zarrume)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “barda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Irish

Alternative forms

• bárda (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English ward (with /w/ interpreted as lenited bh, and radical b derived from that by back-formation), from Old English weard (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɑːɾˠdˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠæːɾˠdˠə/

Noun

barda m (genitive singular barda, nominative plural bardaí)

1. guard, warden
2. garrison
3. guardianship, ward

Declension

Declension of barda (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative barda bardaí vocative a bharda a bhardaí genitive barda bardaí dative barda bardaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an barda na bardaí genitive an bharda na mbardaí dative leis an mbarda don bharda leis na bardaí

Synonyms

• (ward):
  • (division of city): barda cathrach
  • (part of hospital): barda ospidéil

Derived terms

• bardach m (“warden”)
• bardacht f (“wardship; guardianship”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of barda

radical	lenition	eclipsis
barda	bharda	mbarda

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “barda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “barda”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “barda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/
• Rhymes: -arda
• Hyphenation: bàr‧da

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

Noun

barda f (plural barde)

1. a saddle without saddlebow
2. bard

   Synonyms: armatura, bardatura, finimenti, gualdrappa

Etymology 2

Verb

barda

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

Further reading

• barda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• brada

Latin

Pronunciation

• bārda: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbaːr.da]
• bārda: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.d̪a]
• bārdā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbaːr.daː]
• bārdā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.d̪a]

Adjective

bārda

1. inflection of bārdus:
   1. nominative/vocative singular feminine
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

bārdā

1. ablative singular feminine of bārdus

References

• "barda", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old Dutch

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bardā, from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ.

Noun

barda f

1. axe
   • c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:

     Also an walde holto mit acusin hiewon duri iro an that selva, an acusi in an bardon nitherwirpon sia.

     They way they hew wood in the forest, so did they hew her door, and with a large and a smaller axe they knocked her down.

Inflection

Declension of barda (feminine ō/ōn-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	barda	barda, bardon
accusative	barda, bardon	barda, bardon
genitive	bardon	bardono
dative	bardon	bardon

Coordinate terms

• acus (larger than a barda)
• *billi, *bīal(a)

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: barde

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arda
• Syllabification: bar‧da

Noun

barda n

1. inflection of bardo:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

barda m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of bard

Portuguese

Etymology

Compare Spanish barda (“fence”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.dɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.dɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.dɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɻ.da/

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

• Hyphenation: bar‧da

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. hedge

   Synonym: sebe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾda/ [ˈbaɾ.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾda
• Syllabification: bar‧da

Etymology 1

Compare Portuguese barda (“hedge”).

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. (Mexico) fence

   Synonyms: alambrada, alambrado, cerca, cerramiento, valla

Derived terms

• brincarse alguien la barda
• saltarse alguien la barda
• volarse alguien la barda
• volarse una barda

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian barda, from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. barding

Further reading

• “barda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Turkish

Noun

barda

1. definite locative singular of bar