zarda

Hindi ज़र्दा (zardā); Urdu زردہ.

zarda (uncountable)

1. The flavoured tobacco used in paan.
   • 2015, Priyamvada Sharma, Pratima Murthy, Parul Shivhare, “Nicotine quantity and packaging disclosure in smoked and smokeless tobacco products in India”, in Indian Journal of Pharmacology‎^[1], volume 47, →DOI:

     Hookah samples collected from urban “hookah bars” from Bengaluru were found to contain nicotine content of 0.8 mg/g, while, in zarda, average nicotine was 20.35 mg/g.

2. A sweet South Asian dish of boiled rice with milk, sugar and spices.

• zerde

• Zadar

Borrowed from Arabic جَرَذ (jaraḏ). Compare Italian giarda.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈzar.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪͡z̪ar.d̪a]

zarda f (genitive zardae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin, very rare) spavin
   • 1300s, Pietro De' Crescenzi, “Dē aegritūdinibus equōrum et cūrā eōrum [On the illnesses of horses, and cure thereof]”, Liber nōnus - Dē omnibus animālibus quae in rūre nūtriuntur [Ninth book - On all the animals which are fed in the farm], in Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII [The 12 books of agricultural advantages]‎^[2] (overall work in Medieval Latin); republished (manuscript), 1471, page 308:

     [equꝰ] qn̄ꝫ nascit̃ cum zardis

     [[equus] quandōque nāscitur cum zardīs]

     [the horse] is sometimes born with spavins

First-declension noun.

• "zarda", 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)

zarda

1. locative singular of zar