sard

• IPA^(key): /sɑː(ɹ)d/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorþan (“to violate, rape”), borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

1. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).

   Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152:

     Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.

   • 1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes:

     Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.

   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:

     […] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]

   • 1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:

     Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.

• John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101

• Sadr, ADS-R, RADs, rads, RDS.A, RDAs, SADR, ARDS, dars, Dras, ADRs, ards

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsaɾt]

Borrowed from Latin sardus.

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (of, from or relating to Sardinia, Italy)

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (native or inhabitant of Sardinia, Italy) (usually male)

sard m (uncountable)

1. Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

• Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.

sard m (plural sards)

1. white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)

   Synonym: sarg

• “sard”, 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
• “sard”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “sard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Related to Persian سرد (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

sard

1. cold

Borrowed from French Sarde.

sard m or n (feminine singular sardă, masculine plural sarzi, feminine and neuter plural sarde)

1. Sardinian (of, from or relating to Sardinia, Italy)

sard m (plural sarzi)

1. Sardinian (native or inhabitant of Sardinia, Italy) (usually male)

Borrowed from Latin sardus. Doublet of sardin and sardell.

• IPA^(key): /sard/, /sɑːrd/

sard c

1. Sardinian (native or inhabitant of Sardinia, Italy)

• sardinare
• sardinier

• Sardinien
• sardinsk

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