بارد

Derived from the active participle of بَرَدَ (barada, “to be cold, to freeze”).

• IPA^(key): /baː.rid/

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بَارِد • (bārid) (feminine بَارِدَة (bārida), masculine plural بَارِدُونَ (bāridūna), feminine plural بَارِدَات (bāridāt), elative أَبْرَد (ʔabrad))

1. cold, cooling
2. dull, slow
3. poor (wit, poetry)
4. incontestable (right)
5. safely placed (money)

• Maltese: biered
• Moroccan Arabic: بارد (bāred)
• → Swahili: baridi

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “بارد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic بَارِد (bārid).

• IPA^(key): /baː.rid/

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بارد • (bārid) (feminine باردة (bārda), common plural براد (brād), masculine plural باردين (bārdīn), feminine plural باردات (bārdāt), elative أبرد (ʔabrad) or برد (brad))

1. cold
2. dull

From Arabic بَارِد (bārid). Equivalent to the active participle of برد (barad, “to become cold”).

• IPA^(key): /baː.red/, [ˈbæː.rɪd]

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بارد • (bāred) (feminine باردة (bārde), common plural باردين (bārdīn), elative أبرد (ʔabrad))

1. cold

   الطقس بارد. ― iṭ-ṭaʔs bāred ― The weather is cold.

2. unemotional, cold-hearted
3. sluggish

   Synonym: خامل (ḵāmel)

• When describing the weather with الدنيا (id-dinya), the noun برد (bard) is used instead.