sard

See also: Sard and սարդ

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑː(ɹ)d/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

Noun

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

Translations

a gemstone

• Finnish: sardi (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: σάρδιον n (sárdion)

• Maori: harariu
• Russian: сердоли́к (ru) m (serdolík)
• Thai: ซาร์ด (sàat)

Etymology 2

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorðan, borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

Verb

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

1. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).

   Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152:

     Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.

   • 1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes:

     Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.

   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:

     […] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]

   • 1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:

     Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.

Further reading

• John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101

Anagrams

• Sadr, ADS-R, RADs, rads, RDS.A, RDAs, SADR, ARDS, dars, Dras, ADRs, ards

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsaɾt]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sardus.

Adjective

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)

Noun

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)

1. Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)

Noun

sard m (uncountable)

1. Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

Related terms

• Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

Etymology 2

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.

Noun

sard m (plural sards)

1. white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)

   Synonym: sarg

Further reading

• “sard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sard”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian سرد (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

Adjective

sard

1. cold

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Sarde.

Adjective

sard m or n (feminine singular sardă, masculine plural sarzi, feminine and neuter plural sarde)

1. Sardinian

Declension

Declension of sard

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	sard		sardă	sarzi	sarde
	definite	sardul		sarda	sarzii	sardele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	sard		sarde	sarzi	sarde
	definite	sardului		sardei	sarzilor	sardelor

Noun

sard m (plural sarzi)

1. Sardinian (someone from Sardinia)

Declension

Declension of sard

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sard	sardul	(niște) sarzi	sarzii
genitive/dative	(unui) sard	sardului	(unor) sarzi	sarzilor
vocative	sardule		sarzilor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sardus. Doublet of sardin and sardell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sard/, /sɑːrd/

Noun

sard c

1. Sardinian (person from Sardinia)

Declension

Declension of sard
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sard	sarden	sarder	sarderna
Genitive	sards	sardens	sarders	sardernas

Synonyms

• sardinare
• sardinier

Related terms

• Sardinien
• sardinsk

References

• sard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sard in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sard in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)