gardin

See also: Gardin and gardîn

Danish

Etymology

From German Gardine (“curtain”), from French courtine, from Old French cortine, from Medieval Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), from Latin cohors (“court, enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡardiːn/, [ɡ̊ɑˈd̥iːˀn]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

gardin n (singular definite gardinet, plural indefinite gardiner)

1. curtain
2. drape, drapes
3. blind (covering for a window)

Inflection

Declension of gardin

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gardin	gardinet	gardiner	gardinerne
genitive	gardins	gardinets	gardiners	gardinernes

Middle English

Noun

gardin

1. Alternative form of gardyn

Norman

Alternative forms

• gardîn (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old Northern French gardin, Medieval Latin gardinus (“garden”) or oblique form of *gard, from Old Norse garðr (“yard, garden”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô, from *gardaz (“yard”). Compare French jardin, from Old French jardin.

Noun

gardin m (plural gardins)

1. (Guernsey) garden
   • 2006, Nellie Duquemin, “Au haut du gardin”, in P'tites Lures Normanes, Cromwell Press, published 2006, page 38:

     Au haut des notre gardin y a en petit maisaon.

     At the top of our garden there is a privy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin cortina, via German Gardine.

Noun

gardin m or f or n (definite singular gardinen or gardina or gardinet, indefinite plural gardiner or gardin, definite plural gardinene or gardina)

1. a curtain

References

• “gardin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin cortina, via German Gardine.

Noun

gardin f (definite singular gardina, indefinite plural gardiner, definite plural gardinene)
gardin n (definite singular gardinet, indefinite plural gardin, definite plural gardina)

1. a curtain

References

• “gardin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• jardin

Etymology

From Medieval Latin jardinus, of Germanic origin. See also English garden.

Noun

gardin oblique singular, m (oblique plural gardins, nominative singular gardins, nominative plural gardin)

1. (Picardy, Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) garden (large outdoor area with plants and trees)

Descendants

• Middle French: jardin
  • French: jardin (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: gardin, gardîn
• → Middle English: gardyn
  • English: garden
    • Sranan Tongo: dyari
    • → Nafaanra: yaadi
  • Scots: gairden
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: jardin
  • Galician: xardín
  • Portuguese: jardim

Swedish

gardiner

Etymology

From Low German Gardine, from Early Modern Dutch gardine (contemporary Dutch gordijn), from French courtine, from Old French cortine, from Medieval Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), from Latin cohors.

Noun

gardin c

1. a curtain (in front of a window)
2. (in some compounds) a curtain, a drapery (more generally)

   sänggardin

   bed curtains

Declension

Declension of gardin
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gardin	gardinen	gardiner	gardinerna
Genitive	gardins	gardinens	gardiners	gardinernas

Derived terms

• gardinarrangemang
• gardinkappa
• gardinring
• gardinspringa
• gardinstång
• gardinuppsättning
• rullgardin
• tyllgardin

See also

• draperi
• förhänge (curtain in front of an opening rather than a window)
• ridå (curtain in a theater)
• skynke

References

• gardin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gardin in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• gardin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• indrag, randig

Yagara

Noun

gardin

1. blood

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.