barda

See also: bardă, Bardă, barða, bärda, bárda, bārda, bārdā, and Bârda

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbar.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbaɾ.ða]

Noun

barda f (plural bardes)

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

Derived terms

• bardissa

Further reading

• “barda” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.da/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

barda m (plural bardas)

1. (military) gear
2. (informal) luggage, loading
3. (Quebec, slang) mess, jumble

Verb

barda

1. third-person singular past historic of barder

Further reading

• “barda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• brada

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɾðɐ]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. hedge

   Synonyms: bardal, sebe

2. stake for fencing; flagstone

   Synonyms: chanto, estaca, vargo

3. haystack

Derived terms

• Barda

Related terms

• bardado
• bardal
• bardanca
• bardar
• bardasca
• bardo
• embarda
• embardar

 

Etymology 2

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

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

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

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “barda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “barda (zarrume)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “barda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Irish

Alternative forms

• bárda (obsolete)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɑːɾˠdˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠæːɾˠdˠə/

Noun

barda m (genitive singular barda, nominative plural bardaí)

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

Declension

Declension of barda (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative barda bardaí vocative a bharda a bhardaí genitive barda bardaí dative barda bardaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an barda na bardaí genitive an bharda na mbardaí dative leis an mbarda don bharda leis na bardaí

Synonyms

• (ward):
  • (division of city): barda cathrach
  • (part of hospital): barda ospidéil

Derived terms

• bardach m (“warden”)
• bardacht f (“wardship; guardianship”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of barda

radical	lenition	eclipsis
barda	bharda	mbarda

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barda”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “barda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

Noun

barda f (plural barde)

1. a saddle without saddlebow
2. bard

   Synonyms: armatura, bardatura, finimenti, gualdrappa

Etymology 2

Verb

barda

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• brada

Latin

Pronunciation

• bārda: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbaːr.da/, [ˈbäːrd̪ä]
• bārda: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/, [ˈbärd̪ä]
• bārdā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbaːr.daː/, [ˈbäːrd̪äː]
• bārdā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/, [ˈbärd̪ä]

Adjective

bārda

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

Adjective

bārdā

1. ablative singular feminine of bārdus

References

• barda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arda
• Syllabification: bar‧da

Noun

barda n

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

Noun

barda m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of bard

Portuguese

Etymology

Compare Spanish barda (“fence”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.dɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.dɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.dɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɻ.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.dɐ/ [ˈbaɾ.ðɐ]

• Hyphenation: bar‧da

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. hedge

   Synonym: sebe

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Compare Portuguese barda (“hedge”).

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. (Mexico) fence

   Synonyms: alambrada, alambrado, cerca, cerramiento, valla

Derived terms

• brincarse alguien la barda
• saltarse alguien la barda
• volarse alguien la barda
• volarse una barda

 

Etymology 2

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

Noun

barda f (plural bardas)

1. barding

Further reading

• “barda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Turkish

Noun

barda

1. definite locative singular of bar