بارد

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from the active participle of بَرَدَ (barada, “to be cold, to freeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baː.rid/

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Adjective

بَارِد • (bārid) (feminine بَارِدَة (bārida), masculine plural بَارِدُونَ (bāridūna), feminine plural بَارِدَات (bāridāt), elative أَبْرَد (ʔabrad))

1. cold, cooling
2. dull, slow
3. poor (wit, poetry)
4. incontestable (right)
5. safely placed (money)

Declension

Descendants

• Maltese: biered
• Moroccan Arabic: بارد (bāred)
• → Swahili: baridi

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “بارد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَارِد (bārid).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baː.rid/

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Adjective

بارد • (bārid) (feminine باردة (bārda), common plural براد (brād), masculine plural باردين (bārdīn), feminine plural باردات (bārdāt), elative أبرد (ʔabrad) or برد (brad))

1. cold
2. dull

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَارِد (bārid). Equivalent to the active participle of برد (barad, “to become cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baː.red/,

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Adjective

بارد • (bāred) (feminine باردة (bārde), common plural باردين (bārdīn), elative أبرد (ʔabrad))

1. cold

   الطقس بارد. ― iṭ-ṭaʔs bāred ― The weather is cold.

2. unemotional, cold-hearted
3. sluggish

   Synonym: خامل (ḵāmel)

Usage notes

• When describing the weather with الدنيا (id-dinya), the noun برد (bard) is used instead.

See also