barda

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

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

barda f (plural bardes)

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

• bardissa

• “barda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.da/

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barda m (plural bardas)

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

barda

1. third-person singular past historic of barder

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

• brada

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɾðɐ]

From Paleo-Hispanic, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *wradyos (compare Welsh gwraidd, "root").^[1]

barda f (plural bardas)

1. hedge

   Synonyms: bardal, sebe

2. stake for fencing; flagstone

   Synonyms: chanto, estaca, vargo

3. haystack

• Barda

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

barda f (plural bardas)

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

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

• bárda (obsolete)

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”).

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

barda m (genitive singular barda, nominative plural bardaí)

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

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

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

• 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, 2013–2025

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

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

barda f (plural barde)

1. a saddle without saddlebow
2. bard

   Synonyms: armatura, bardatura, finimenti, gualdrappa

barda

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

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

• brada

• bārda: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbaːr.da]
• bārda: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.d̪a]
• bārdā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbaːr.daː]
• bārdā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.d̪a]

bārda

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

bārdā

1. ablative singular feminine of bārdus

• "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)

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bardā, from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ.

barda f

1. axe
   • c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:

     Also an walde holto mit acusin hiewon duri iro an that selva, an acusi in an bardon nitherwirpon sia.

     They way they hew wood in the forest, so did they hew her door, and with a large and a smaller axe they knocked her down.

• acus (larger than a barda)
• *billi, *bīal(a)

• Middle Dutch: barde

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/

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• Rhymes: -arda
• Syllabification: bar‧da

barda n

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

barda m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of bard

Compare Spanish barda (“fence”).

• Hyphenation: bar‧da

barda f (plural bardas)

1. hedge

   Synonym: sebe

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

Compare Portuguese barda (“hedge”).

barda f (plural bardas)

1. (Mexico) fence

   Synonyms: alambrada, alambrado, cerca, cerramiento, valla

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

barda f (plural bardas)

1. barding

• “barda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

barda

1. definite locative singular of bar