lard

See also: Lard and lärd

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑːd/
• IPA^(key): /lɑɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Noun

lard (countable and uncountable, plural lards)

1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
2. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

Translations

fat from the abdomen of a pig

• Belarusian: са́ла n (sála), сма́лец m (smáljec)
• Breton: bloneg (br) m
• Bulgarian: мас (bg) f (mas)
• Burmese: ဝက်ဆီ (my) (wakhci)
• Catalan: llard (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豬油／猪油 (zyu¹ jau⁴), 猪油 (zyu¹ jau⁴)

  Mandarin: 豬油／猪油 (zh) (zhūyóu), 猪油 (zh) (zhūyóu)

• Classical Nahuatl: coyamechiyāhuacāyōtl
• Czech: sádlo (cs) n, vepřové sádlo n
• Dutch: reuzel (nl) m, smout (nl) n
• Finnish: ihra (fi), laardi (fi), sianihra
• French: saindoux (fr) m
• Friulian: ardiel m
• Galician: touciño (gl) m, pingo m, pingue m, manteiga (gl) f, lardo m, enxulla f
• German: Schmalz (de) m
• Greek: λαρδί (el) n (lardí)
• Hungarian: szalonna (hu), sertészsír (hu), disznózsír (hu)
• Ido: saimo (io)
• Irish: blonag (ga) f
• Italian: strutto (it)
• Japanese: 豚脂 (とんし, tonshi), ラード (rādo)
• Korean: 라드 (ko) (radeu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: speķis m
• Macedonian: маст f (mast), сало n (salo)
• Maori: hinu poaka
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: akʼah
• Neapolitan: nzogna f
• Norman: molle graîsse f
• Northern Ohlone: saw̄én
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smult (no) n

  Nynorsk: smult n

• Persian: پیهِ خوک (pih-e xuk)
• Polish: smalec (pl) m
• Portuguese: banha (pt) f
• Romanian: untură (ro)
• Russian: са́ло (ru) n (sálo), лярд (ru) m (ljard), сма́лец (ru) m (smálec)
• Sicilian: nzunza (scn) f, lardu (scn) m
• Spanish: manteca (es)
• Swedish: ister (sv) n
• Tagalog: tunis
• Thai: มันหมู (man-mǔu)
• Tok Pisin: gris
• Ukrainian: са́ло (uk) n (sálo), сма́лець m (smálecʹ)
• Venetian: lardo

bacon — see bacon

Verb

lard (third-person singular simple present lards, present participle larding, simple past and past participle larded)

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
2. To smear with fat or lard.
   • (Can we date this quote by Somerville and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.

3. To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
4. To fatten; to enrich.
   • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.

   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
6. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

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

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

Translations

to stuff with bacon or pork

• Bulgarian: шпиковам (špikovam)
• Dutch: larderen (nl)
• Finnish: täyttää pekonilla
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: farcire con pancetta
• Spanish: mechar (es)

to smear with fat or lard

• Bulgarian: намазвам с мас (namazvam s mas)
• Finnish: silavoida
• Italian: spalmare con lardo
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Tok Pisin: grisim

to garnish or strew

• Dutch: larderen (nl)
• Finnish: koristella (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: megtűzdel, spékel (hu), megspékel (hu), teletűzdel
• Italian: infiorare (it), infarcire (it), abbellire (it)

to fatten; enrich

• Finnish: lihottaa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ingrassare (it)

to grow fat

• Bulgarian: надебелявам (bg) (nadebeljavam)
• Finnish: lihoa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to mix or garnish as by way of improvement

• Hungarian: tarkít, díszít (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• ARLD, LDAR, LRAD, darl

---

French

Etymology

From Old French lard, from Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laʁ/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

lard m (plural lards)

1. bacon
2. lard

Further reading

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

---

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard oblique singular, m (oblique plural larz or lartz, nominative singular larz or lartz, nominative plural lard)

1. cut of meat from a pig
2. lard (fatty substance)

Descendants

• → English: lard
• French: lard

---

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard n (plural larduri)

1. (regional) bacon
2. (regional) pig-fat

Declension

Declension of lard

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lard	lardul	(niște) larduri	lardurile
genitive/dative	(unui) lard	lardului	(unor) larduri	lardurilor
vocative	lardule		lardurilor

Synonyms

• slănină

Derived terms

• lărdos
• lărdar

---

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m

1. (Puter) bacon

Synonyms

• charnpüerch
• panzetta