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Etymology

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From a pre-Roman and perhaps pre-Indo-European substrate word *barda "brambles, branches" and, by extension, an enclosure reinforced with them.

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barda f (plural bardes)

  1. fold, pen (enclosure for domestic animals)
  2. slope

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French

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  • IPA(key): /baʁ.da/
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barda m (plural bardas)

  1. (Quebec, slang) mess, jumble

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barda

  1. third-person singular past historic of barder

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *wradyos (compare Welsh gwraidd, "root").[1]

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barda f (plural bardas)

  1. hedge
    Synonyms: bardal, sebe
  2. stake for fencing; flagstone
    Synonyms: chanto, estaca, vargo
  3. haystack
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Etymology 2

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From Arabic بَرْدَة (barda), ultimately from Middle Persian pltk' (pardag). Compare to Persian پرده (parde), Old Armenian պարտակ (partak), and Classical Syriac ܦܪܕܩܐ (pardəqā).

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barda f (plural bardas)

  1. a piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “barda II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Borrowed from Middle English ward (with /w/ interpreted as lenited bh, and radical b derived from that by back-formation), from Old English weard (guard, keeper), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (guard, keeper), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (to heed, defend).

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barda m (genitive singular barda, nominative plural bardaí)

  1. guard, warden
  2. garrison
  3. guardianship, ward

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
barda bharda mbarda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbar.da/
  • Rhymes: -arda
  • Hyphenation: bàr‧da

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, packsaddle).

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barda f (plural barde)

  1. a saddle without saddlebow
  2. bard
    Synonyms: armatura, bardatura, finimenti, gualdrappa

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Verb

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barda

  1. inflection of bardare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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  • barda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Adjective

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bārda

  1. inflection of bārdus:
    1. nominative/vocative singular feminine
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

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bārdā

  1. ablative singular feminine of bārdus

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Polish

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barda n

  1. inflection of bardo:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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barda m pers

  1. genitive/accusative singular of bard

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Compare Spanish barda (fence).

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  • Hyphenation: bar‧da

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barda f (plural bardas)

  1. hedge
    Synonym: sebe

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾda/ [ˈbaɾ.ð̞a]
  • Rhymes: -aɾda
  • Syllabification: bar‧da

Etymology 1

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Compare Portuguese barda (hedge).

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barda f (plural bardas)

  1. (Mexico) fence
    Synonyms: alambrada, alambrado, cerca, cerramiento, valla
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Italian barda, from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, packsaddle).

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barda f (plural bardas)

  1. barding

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Turkish

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barda

  1. definite locative singular of bar