sard

See also: սարդ

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

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: σάρδιον n (sárdion)

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• Maori: harariu

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) to seduce (a woman)

See also

• sardius

Anagrams

• ADRs, RDS.A, SADR, Sadr, ards, dars, rads

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈsaɾt]

Etymology 1

From Latin sardus.

Adjective

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

1. Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)

Noun

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)

1. Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)

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 )

   Synonym: sarg

Further reading

• “sard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sard”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Kurdish

Etymology

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

Adjective

1. cold