Garda

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See also: garda, gardă, gardā, and gárda

English

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Etymology

From Irish Garda (“guardian”), from Irish Garda Síochána (“Guardian of the Peace”) and Garda Síochána na hÉireann (“Guardian of the Peace of Ireland”) after the model of the French Third Republic's civilian French gardiens de la paix, from Old French guarde, from guarder (“to guard”), from Frankish *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną. Doublet of guard, guardian, and warden.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Garda (plural Gardai or Gardaí)

  1. Synonym of Gardai, the national police force of the Republic of Ireland.
  2. (inexact, chiefly Ireland, chiefly in the plural) Synonym of police generally.
    • 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 115:
      Sure don't mind the Gardaí they say. They can't see in.

Noun

Garda (plural Gardai or Gardaí)

  1. A member of the Gardai, an Irish national police officer
    Garda Michael Egan

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Irish

Etymology

Clipping of Garda Síochána (literally “Guardian of the Peace”).

Pronunciation

Noun

Garda m (genitive singular Garda, nominative plural Gardaí)

  1. A member of the Garda Síochána (the Irish police force).

Declension

Declension of Garda (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative Garda Gardaí
vocative a Gharda a Ghardaí
genitive Garda Gardaí
dative Garda Gardaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an Garda na Gardaí
genitive an Gharda na nGardaí
dative leis an nGarda
don Gharda 		leis na Gardaí

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.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡar.da/
  • Rhymes: -arda
  • Hyphenation: Gàr‧da

Proper noun

Garda f

  1. A town in Verona, Veneto, Italy, on the shore of Lake Garda

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