garda

See also: Garda, gardă, gardā, and gárda

English

Noun

garda (plural gardai or gardaí)

  1. (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Garda.
    • 2004, Ken Bruen, The Guards[1], →ISBN, page 38:
      A garda was ambling towards us.
    • 2023 August 15, Ken Foy, “Garda trainee sent home from Templemore over tattoo says he has been treated ‘very unfairly‘”, in Irish Independent, page 6:
      A trainee garda who was sent home from Templemore Garda College after he was told the tattoo on his hand id not comply with the force's dress and uniform code said he has been “treated very unfairly”.

Anagrams

Franco-Provençal

Verb

garda (Genevois)

  1. alternative form of gouardar (to guard)

References

  • garda in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaʁ.da/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

garda

  1. third-person singular past historic of garder

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese guarda, probably a back-formation from gardar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡaɾðɐ]

Noun

garda f (plural gardas)

  1. guard, watchman, escort
  2. (collective, military) guard, squad
  3. (collective) police
  4. (uncountable) guard; watch
  5. (uncountable) protection; keep; custody

Derived terms

  • A Guarda

Verb

garda

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

References

Gothic

Romanization

garda

  1. romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰

Indonesian

Etymology

From Portuguese guarda, guardar, from Old Galician-Portuguese guardar, from Medieval Latin wardō, from Frankish *wardōn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (to guard), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (to heed, defend). Doublet of gardu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡar.da]
  • Hyphenation: gar‧da

Noun

garda (plural garda-garda)

  1. guard, person who or thing that protects something
    Synonym: pengawal

Compounds

Further reading

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French guarde, from guarder (to guard), from Frankish *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną.

Pronunciation

Noun

garda m (genitive singular garda, nominative plural gardaí)

  1. police officer, patrolman
  2. escort
  3. guard

Declension

Declension of garda (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative garda gardaí
vocative a gharda a ghardaí
genitive garda gardaí
dative garda gardaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an garda na gardaí
genitive an gharda na ngardaí
dative leis an ngarda
don gharda
leis na gardaí

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • bangharda (policewoman)
  • dul ar garda (to mount guard)
  • Garda
  • garda a sheasamh (to stand guard, sentinel)
  • garda abhann (river guard)
  • garda coille (forest guard)
  • garda cosanta (bodyguard)
  • garda cósta (coastguard)
  • garda cuain (harbour guard)
  • garda gradaim (guard of honour)
  • garda rámha (oar-guard, clamp)
  • garda saighdiúirí (guard, body, of soldiers)
  • garda síochána (guardian of the peace)
  • garda slabhra (chain guard)
  • garda tine (fire-guard)
  • garda traenach (railway guard)
  • garda truicir (trigger-guard)
  • gardáil (guard, verb)
  • seomra garda (guardroom)
  • teach garda (guardhouse)

Descendants

  • English: garda

Mutation

Mutated forms of garda
radical lenition eclipsis
garda gharda ngarda

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Latvian

Adjective

garda

  1. inflection of gards:
    1. genitive masculine singular
    2. nominative feminine singular

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garde.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡar.da/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -arda
  • Syllabification: gar‧da
  • Homophone: Garda

Noun

garda f

  1. crossguard, quillon
    Synonym: jelec
  2. (boxing) guard (way in which boxers position their hands in their stance)

Declension

Further reading

  • garda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • garda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡarda]

Noun

garda f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gardă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡâːrda/
  • Hyphenation: gar‧da

Noun

gȃrda f (Cyrillic spelling га̑рда)

  1. guard (of a sovereign or an army commander)

Declension

Declension of garda
singular plural
nominative garda garde
genitive garde garda
dative gardi gardama
accusative gardu garde
vocative gardo garde
locative gardi gardama
instrumental gardom gardama