Garda

See also: garda, gardă, gardā, and gárda

English

Alternative forms

• garda

Etymology

From Irish Garda (“guardian”), from Irish Garda Síochána (“Guardian of the Peace”) and Garda Síochána na hÉireann (“Guardian of the Peace of Ireland”) after the model of the French Third Republic's civilian French gardiens de la paix, from Old French guarde, from guarder (“to guard”), from Frankish *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną. Doublet of guard, guardian, and warden.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɹdə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːdə/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də

Proper noun

Garda (plural Gardai or Gardaí)

1. Synonym of Gardai, the national police force of the Republic of Ireland.
2. (inexact, chiefly Ireland, chiefly in the plural) Synonym of police generally.
   • 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 115:

     Sure don't mind the Gardaí they say. They can't see in.

Noun

Garda (plural Gardai or Gardaí)

1. A member of the Gardai, an Irish national police officer

   Garda Michael Egan

See also

• guardian of the peace

Anagrams

• Agard

Irish

Etymology

Clipping of Garda Síochána (literally “Guardian of the Peace”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɾˠd̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːɾˠd̪ˠə/

Noun

Garda m (genitive singular Garda, nominative plural Gardaí)

1. A member of the Garda Síochána (the Irish police force).

Declension

Declension of Garda

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative Garda Gardaí Vocative a Gharda a Ghardaí Genitive Garda Gardaí Dative Garda Gardaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an Garda na Gardaí Genitive an Gharda na nGardaí Dative leis an nGarda don Gharda leis na Gardaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Garda	Gharda	nGarda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.da/
• Rhymes: -arda
• Hyphenation: Gàr‧da

Proper noun

Garda f

1. A town in Verona, Veneto, Italy, on the shore of Lake Garda

Related terms

• gardesano

Anagrams

• draga