sard

See also: Sard and սարդ

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑː(ɹ)d/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

Noun

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

Translations

a gemstone

• Finnish: sardi (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: σάρδιον n (sárdion)

• Māori: harariu
• Russian: сердоли́к (ru) m (serdolík)
• Thai: ซาร์ด (sàat)

Etymology 2

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorþan (“to violate, rape”), from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

Verb

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

1. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).

   Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152:

     Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.

   • 1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes:

     Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.

   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:

     […] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]

   • 1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:

     Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.

Further reading

• John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101

Anagrams

• Sadr, ADS-R, RADs, rads, RDS.A, RDAs, SADR, ARDS, dars, Dras, ADRs, ards

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Northwestern) [ˈsart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsaɾt]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sardus.

Adjective

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (of, from or relating to Sardinia, Italy)

Noun

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (native or inhabitant of Sardinia, Italy) (usually male)

Noun

sard m (uncountable)

1. Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

Related terms

• Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

Etymology 2

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.

Noun

sard m (plural sards)

1. white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)

   Synonym: sarg

Further reading

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

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian سرد (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

Adjective

sard

1. cold

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Sarde.

Adjective

sard m or n (feminine singular sardă, masculine plural sarzi, feminine/neuter plural sarde)

1. Sardinian (of, from or relating to Sardinia, Italy)

Declension

Declension of sard

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	sard		sardă	sarzi	sarde
	definite	sardul		sarda	sarzii	sardele
genitive- dative	indefinite	sard		sarde	sarzi	sarde
	definite	sardului		sardei	sarzilor	sardelor

Noun

sard m (plural sarzi)

1. Sardinian (native or inhabitant of Sardinia, Italy) (usually male)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sard	sardul	sarzi	sarzii
genitive-dative	sard	sardului	sarzi	sarzilor
vocative	sardule		sarzilor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sardus. Doublet of sardin and sardell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sard/, /sɑːrd/

Noun

sard c

1. Sardinian (native or inhabitant of Sardinia, Italy)

Declension

Declension of sard

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sard	sards
	definite	sarden	sardens
plural	indefinite	sarder	sarders
	definite	sarderna	sardernas

Synonyms

• sardinare
• sardinier

Related terms

• Sardinien
• sardinsk

References

• “sard”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “sard”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sard”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)