scabbard

English edit

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scabbard

Bowie knife and sheath

Etymology edit

From Middle English scabard, scauberde, scauberk, scauberke, from Anglo-Norman eschaubert, escalberc, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Frankish *skarberg (“sheath”, literally “blade-protection”), from Proto-Germanic *skēriz (“blade, scissors”) + *bergaz (“shelter, protection, refuge”). See also hauberk.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskæb.əd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskæb.ɚd/
Rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)d
Hyphenation: scab‧bard

Noun edit

scabbard (plural scabbards)

The sheath of a sword.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
  I had had to discard my rifle before I commenced the rapid descent of the cliff, so that now I was armed only with a hunting knife, and this I whipped from its scabbard as Kho leaped toward me.

Derived terms edit

scabbard fish

Translations edit

the sheath of a sword

Albanian: mbulesë (sq) f, mill (sq), zgjebe (sq) f, këllëf (sq) m
Arabic: غِمْد m (ḡimd), غِلَاف m (ḡilāf)
Armenian: պատյան (hy) (patyan)
Aromanian: teacã f
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: qın, kılıf
Bashkir: ҡын (qın)
Belarusian: но́жны f pl (nóžny), по́хва f (póxva), по́хвы f pl (póxvy)
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: ножница (bg) f (nožnica)
Burmese: ဓားအိမ် (my) (dha:im)
Catalan: beina (ca) f
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Literary Chinese: 韜 (tāo)

Mandarin: 鞘 (zh) (qiào), 劍鞘／剑鞘 (jiànqiào), 刀鞘 (zh) (dāoqiào)
Czech: pochva (cs) f
Danish: skede (da) c
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: schede (nl) f
Esperanto: glavingo (eo)
Estonian: mõõgatupp
Faroese: slíðri m
Finnish: tuppi (fi), huotra (fi)
French: fourreau (fr) m
Galician: vaíña (gl) f
Georgian: ქარქაში (karkaši)
German: Schwertscheide (de) f, Scheide (de) f
Gothic: 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐍂 n (fōdr)
Greek: θηκάρι (el) n (thikári), θήκη (el) f (thíki)
Ancient: ἔλυτρον n (élutron), κολεός m (koleós)
Hebrew: נדן (he) m (nadan), נרתיק (he) m (nartik)
Hindi: मियान (hi) m (miyān), म्यान (hi) m (myān)
Hungarian: hüvely (hu), tok (hu)
Icelandic: skálpur m, skeiðar (is) f pl
Ido: gaino (io)
Indonesian: sarung pedang (id)
Iranun: please add this translation if you can
Irish: truaill f
Italian: fodero (it) m, guaina (it) f
Japanese: 鞘 (ja) (さや, saya)
Kazakh: қын (qyn), қынап (qynap)
Khmer: ស្រោមដាវ (sraom daaw)
Korean: 칼집 (ko) (kaljip), 대검집 (daegeomjip)
Kyrgyz: кын (kın)
Lao: ຝັກ (fak)
Latin: vāgīna f
Latvian: maksts (lv)
Lithuanian: makštis m
Low German: scheed
Macedonian: канија f (kanija), корица f (korica), ножница f (nožnica)
Maguindanao: please add this translation if you can
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Malayalam: വാളുറ (ml) (vāḷuṟa)
Maltese: għant m
Maranao: tagob, tagoban
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: хуй (mn) (xuj)
Ngazidja Comorian: wala class 9/10
Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: slire m or f, skjede m
Ottoman Turkish: قین (kın), جفن (cefn)
Persian: غلاف (fa) (ğelâf), قراب (fa), نیام (fa) (niyâm)
Polish: pochwa (pl) f
Portuguese: bainha (pt) f
Punjabi: ਮਿਆਨ f (miāna)
Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: teacă (ro) f
Russian: но́жны (ru) n (nóžny)
Scottish Gaelic: duille f, fraighe f, cochall m, faighean m, duille-sgeine f
Serbo-Croatian: korice (sh) f
Cyrillic: ножница f

Roman: nožnica (sh) f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: vajina (scn) f
Slovak: pošva (sk) f
Slovene: nožnica (sl) f
Southern Altai: кын (kïn)
Spanish: vaina (es) f
Swedish: skida (sv) c, balja (sv) c, slida (sv) c
Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: kaluban, bayna
Tajik: ғилоф (ġilof), наём (nayom)
Thai: ฝัก (th) (fàk)
Turkish: kın (tr), kılıf (tr)
Turkmen: gyn
Ukrainian: пі́хви f pl (píxvy), пі́хва f (píxva)
Uyghur: قىن (qin), غىلاپ (ghilap)
Uzbek: qin (uz), gʻilof (uz)
Vietnamese: vỏ (vi), bao kiếm
Volapük: denavead (vo)
Welsh: gwain f
Yakut: кыын (kıın)
Yiddish: שייד f (sheyd)
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Verb edit

scabbard (third-person singular simple present scabbards, present participle scabbarding, simple past and past participle scabbarded)

To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.
Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.