kardas

See also: Kardas, Kardaś, and kardaş

Lithuanian

Kardas

Etymology

From a Slavic language, ultimately from an Iranian language, compare Ossetian кард (kard), Persian کارد (kârd, “knife”). Hungarian kard and Polish kord are also borrowed from Iranian.

Noun

kárdas m (plural kardaĩ) stress pattern 3

1. sabre (sword with a curved blade)

Declension

Declension of kárdas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	kárdas	kardaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	kárdo	kardų̃
dative (naudininkas)	kárdui	kardáms
accusative (galininkas)	kárdą	kárdus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	kárdu	kardaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	kardè	karduosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	kárde	kardaĩ

See also

• kalavijas (“sword”)
• palašas (“backsword; like a sabre, but straight”)

References

• Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “kárdas”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 221

Further reading

• “kardas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “kardas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024
• kardas in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)

Swedish

Noun

kardas

1. indefinite genitive singular of karda

Verb

kardas

1. passive infinitive of karda
2. present passive of karda