nard

See also: Nard, närd, and n-ard

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”).

Noun

nard (countable and uncountable, plural nards)

1. , a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
2. A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark XIV:

     there cam a woman with an alablaster boxe of oyntmenr, called narde, that was pure and costly, and she brake the boxe and powred it on his heed.

3. American spikenard (), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.

Synonyms

• (Nardostachys jatamansi): nardin, muskroot

Derived terms

• spikenard

References

• nard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nardostachys jatamansi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nardostachys+jatamansi at The Plant List
• “nard”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• nard, in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1987.

Etymology 2

Alteration of nuts (“testicles”), most likely a phonetic variation of nads, itself an abbreviation of gonads

Noun

nard (plural nards)

1. (US, 1980s, slang, always plural) Testicles.

   The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!

   • 2006, Max Brooks, World War Z:

     I’m sure whoever was in charge must have been one of the last of the Fulda Fucktards, you know, those generals who spent their nard-drop years training to defend West Germany from Ivan.

Synonyms

• (testicles): balls, nuts

References

http://www.studfiles.ru/preview/393905/page:33/

Anagrams

• DNAR, DNRA, RAND, Rand, andr-, darn, rDNA, rand, rdna

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Phoenician, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nârd/

Noun

nȁrd m (Cyrillic spelling на̏рд)

1. nard (plant or oil)

References

• “nard” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Volapük

Noun

nard (nominative plural nards)

1. valerian

Declension

declension of nard

	singular	plural
nominative	nard	nards
genitive	narda	nardas
dative	narde	nardes
accusative	nardi	nardis
vocative 1	o nard!	o nards!
predicative 2	nardu	nardus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only