barda

From a pre-Roman and perhaps pre-Indo-European substrate word *barda "brambles, branches" and, by extension, an enclosure reinforced with them.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

barda f (plural bardes)

1. fold, pen (enclosure for domestic animals)
2. slope

• bardissa

• “barda” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “packsaddle”).

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.da/

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barda m (plural bardas)

1. (military) gear
2. (informal) luggage, loading
3. (Quebec, slang) mess, jumble

barda

1. third-person singular past historic of barder

• “barda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• brada

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From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *wradyos (compare Welsh gwraidd, "root").^[1]

barda f (plural bardas)

1. hedge

   Synonyms: bardal, sebe

2. stake for fencing; flagstone

   Synonyms: chanto, estaca, vargo

3. haystack

• Barda

From Arabic بَرْدَة (barda), ultimately from Middle Persian pltk' (pardag). Compare to Persian پرده (parde), Old Armenian պարտակ (partak), and Classical Syriac ܦܪܕܩܐ (pardəqā).

barda f (plural bardas)

1. a piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “barda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “barda (zarrume)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “barda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• bárda (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle English ward (with /w/ interpreted as lenited bh, and radical b derived from that by back-formation), from Old English weard (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɑːɾˠdˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠæːɾˠdˠə/

barda m (genitive singular barda, nominative plural bardaí)

1. guard, warden
2. garrison
3. guardianship, ward

• (ward):
  • (division of city): barda cathrach
  • (part of hospital): barda ospidéil

• bardach m (“warden”)
• bardacht f (“wardship; guardianship”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barda”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “barda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/
• Rhymes: -arda
• Hyphenation: bàr‧da

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

barda f (plural barde)

1. a saddle without saddlebow
2. bard

   Synonyms: armatura, bardatura, finimenti, gualdrappa

barda

1. inflection of bardare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• barda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• brada

• bārda: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbaːr.da/,
• bārda: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/,
• bārdā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbaːr.daː/,
• bārdā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/,

bārda

1. inflection of bārdus:
   1. nominative/vocative singular feminine
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

bārdā

1. ablative singular feminine of bārdus

• barda 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)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.da/

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• Rhymes: -arda
• Syllabification: bar‧da

barda n

1. inflection of bardo:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

barda m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of bard

Compare Spanish barda (“fence”).

• Hyphenation: bar‧da

barda f (plural bardas)

1. hedge

   Synonym: sebe

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾda/
• Rhymes: -aɾda
• Syllabification: bar‧da

Compare Portuguese barda (“hedge”).

barda f (plural bardas)

1. (Mexico) fence

   Synonyms: alambrada, alambrado, cerca, cerramiento, valla

Borrowed from Italian barda, from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

barda f (plural bardas)

1. barding

• “barda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

barda

1. definite locative singular of bar