garant

Inherited from Middle French garant, from Old French garant, garand, guarant, a borrowing from Frankish *warand, from Frankish *warjan (“to authorise, warrant”). Cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁɑ̃/

• Audio:

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garant

1. present participle of garer

garant m (plural garants, feminine garante)

1. guarantor
2. surety

• se porter garant

• garantir

• → Czech: garant
• → Danish: garant
• → German: Garant
  • → Bulgarian: гарант (garant)
• → Macedonian: гарант (garant)
• → Norwegian: garant
• → Portuguese: garante
• → Romanian: garant
• → Russian: гарант (garant)
• → Serbo-Croatian: garant / гарант

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

• garaunt, garent, garrant, garraunt, guarant, guarent, warant

From Frankish *warjan.

garant oblique singular, m (oblique plural garanz or garantz, nominative singular garanz or garantz, nominative plural garant)

1. guaranty; assurance
2. witness
3. protector
4. (law) warrantor
5. safety
6. protection (from harm, etc.)
7. permission
8. permission slip; written authorization

• Anglo-Norman: warant, warand, warrant
  • → Middle English: warant
    • English: warrant
      • → Cantonese: 窩輪 / 窝轮 (wo¹ leon^4-2), 花令
      • → Italian: warrant
      • → Malay: waran
    • Scots: warrand
• Middle French: garant
  • French: garant (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: garant, garrant, garraunt
• → Italian: garante
• → Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: garant
  • Occitan: garant
• → Spanish: garante
  • →? English: guarantee

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (garant)
• garant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Borrowed from French garant.

garant m (plural garanți)

1. guarantor

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎrant/
• Hyphenation: ga‧rant

gàrant m anim (Cyrillic spelling га̀рант)

1. guarantor

gàrant (Cyrillic spelling га̀рант)

1. (colloquial, as an interjection) for sure, surely, guaranteed

   Gle' sad ovo, garant će pasti.

   Watch this, they're totally about to flop.

garant c

1. a guarantor (person or thing that provides a (specific) guarantee)

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡarant/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːrant/, /ˈɡarant/

garant

1. soft mutation of carant