guarda

See also: Guarda, guardá, and guardà

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈɡwar.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡwaɾ.ða]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ˈɡwar.da]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Deverbal from guardar.

Noun

guarda f (plural guardes)

1. protection
2. (printing) endpaper

Noun

guarda m or f by sense (plural guardes)

1. guard (a person who protects or watches over something)

   Synonym: guardià

Etymology 2

Verb

guarda

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

Further reading

• “guarda”, 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
• “guarda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “guarda” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “guarda”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwar.da/
• Rhymes: -arda
• Hyphenation: guàr‧da

Verb

guarda

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

Anagrams

• gradua

Occitan

Alternative forms

• goarda (Gascony)

Pronunciation

• Audio (Gascony):

  (file)

Noun

guarda f (plural guardas)

1. (Gascony) guard, surveillance

References

• Guilhemjoan, Patric (2005), Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), Per Noste, →ISBN, page 75.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈɡwaɦ.dɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈɡwaɦ.dɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɾ.dɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaʁ.dɐ/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɻ.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaʁ.da/ [ˈɡwaɦ.da]

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

• Audio (Portugal):

  (file)

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: guar‧da
• Homophone: Guarda

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wer-

Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús

Proto-Germanic *warduz

Proto-Germanic *-āną

Proto-Germanic *wardō

Proto-Germanic *-āną

Proto-Germanic *wardāną

Frankish *wardēnbor.

Early Medieval Latin wardāre

Old Galician-Portuguese guardar

Portuguese guardardeverb.

Portuguese guarda

Deverbal from guardar.

Noun

guarda m or f by sense (plural guardas)

1. guard (person who protects or watches over something or someone)
2. (informal) police officer

Derived terms

• guarda-chuva
• guarda-corpo
• guarda-costas
• guarda-joias
• guarda-lamas
• guarda-marinha
• Guarda-Mor
• guarda-parques
• guarda-redes
• guarda-rios
• guarda-roupa
• guarda-sol

Descendants

• →? Gujarati: ગારદી (gārdī)
• →? Hindustani:

  Hindi: गारद (gārad)

  Urdu: گارَد (gārad)

• → Indonesian: garda
• → Javanese: ꦒꦂꦝꦸ (gardhu)
  • → Indonesian: gardu

Noun

guarda f (plural guardas)

1. guard (squad responsible for protecting something or someone)
2. flyleaf (blank page at the front or back of a book)

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: goaada

Etymology 2

Verb

guarda

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

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɾda/ [ˈɡwaɾ.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾda
• Syllabification: guar‧da

Etymology 1

Deverbal from guardar, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (“to guard”), from *warduz (“guard”), *wardaz, or directly from the latter. Compare Italian guardia, Portuguese guarda, French garde.

Noun

guarda m or f by sense (plural guardas)

1. guard, ward, keeper
2. (Paraguay, Rioplatense) ticket inspector

   Synonym: cobrador

Derived terms

• ángel de la guarda
• guarda de seguridad
• guardar

Noun

guarda f (plural guardas)

1. endpaper

Etymology 2

Verb

guarda

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

Further reading

• “guarda”, 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