nard

• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɑɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɑːd/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

From Middle English narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”). Doublet of nardus.

nard (countable and uncountable, plural nards)

1. A flowering plant of species Nardostachys jatamansi, in the valerian family, that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
2. A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[3], folio lxvj, recto:

     […] there cam a womã with an alablaſter boxe of oyntment / called narde / that was pure and coſtly / and ſhe brake the boxe ãd powred it on his heed.

3. American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.

• nardus (obsolete)
• (Nardostachys jatamansi): nardin, muskroot

• Indian nard
• spikenard

• nard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nardostachys jatamansi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “nard”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• nard, in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1987.

Alteration of nuts (“testicles”) or nads (“gonads”).

nard (plural nards)

1. (US, 1980s, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

   The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!

   • 2006, Max Brooks, World War Z:

     I’m sure whoever was in charge must have been one of the last of the Fulda Fucktards, you know, those generals who spent their nard-drop years training to defend West Germany from Ivan.

• (testicles): ball, nut

Borrowed from Persian نرد (nard)

• narde

nard (uncountable)

1. A Persian game similar to backgammon.

• DNAR, DNRA, RAND, Rand, andr-, darn, rDNA, rand, rdna

Borrowed from Latin nardus (“spikenard”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnaɾt]

nard m (plural nards)

1. tuberose (Agave amica)

• “nard”, 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

From Latin nardus.

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nard m (plural nards)

1. (botany) matgrass (Nardus)

• “nard” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “nard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

nard

1. alternative form of narde

From Latin nardus.

nard m

1. spikenard

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “nard”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Borrowed from Greek νάρδος (nárdos).

nard m (uncountable)

1. nard (Nardostachys jatamansi)

From Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician, from Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”).

• IPA^(key): /nârd/

nȁrd m inan (Cyrillic spelling на̏рд)

1. nard (plant or oil)

• “nard”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

nard (nominative plural nards)

1. valerian