garda
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English
Noun
garda (plural gardai or gardaí)
- (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Garda
- 2023 August 15, Ken Foy, “Garda trainee sent home from Templemore over tattoo says he has been treated ‘very unfairly‘”, in Irish Independent, page 6:
- A trainee garda who was sent home from Templemore Garda College after he was told the tattoo on his hand id not comply with the force's dress and uniform code said he has been “treated very unfairly”.
Anagrams
Franco-Provençal
Verb
garda (Genevois)
References
- garda in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
French
Pronunciation
Verb
garda
- third-person singular past historic of garder
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese guarda, probably a back-formation from gardar.
Pronunciation
Noun
garda f (plural gardas)
- guard, watchman, escort
- (collective, military) guard, squad
- (collective) police
- (uncountable) guard; watch
- (uncountable) protection; keep; custody
Derived terms
Verb
garda
- inflection of gardar:
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “garda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garda”, 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), “garda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Gothic
Romanization
garda
- Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰
Indonesian
Etymology
From Portuguese guarda, guardar, from Old Galician-Portuguese guardar, from Medieval Latin wardō, from Frankish *wardōn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (“to guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Doublet of gardu.
Pronunciation
Noun
garda (first-person possessive gardaku, second-person possessive gardamu, third-person possessive gardanya)
Compounds
Further reading
- “garda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
Alternative forms
- gárda (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French guarde, from guarder (“to guard”), from Frankish *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną.
Pronunciation
Noun
garda m (genitive singular garda, nominative plural gardaí)
Declension
Declension of garda
Synonyms
Derived terms
- bangharda (“policewoman”)
- dul ar garda (“to mount guard”)
- Garda
- garda a sheasamh (“to stand guard, sentinel”)
- garda abhann (“river guard”)
- garda coille (“forest guard”)
- garda cosanta (“bodyguard”)
- garda cósta (“coastguard”)
- garda cuain (“harbour guard”)
- garda gradaim (“guard of honour”)
- garda rámha (“oar-guard, clamp”)
- garda saighdiúirí (“guard, body, of soldiers”)
- garda síochána (“guardian of the peace”)
- garda slabhra (“chain guard”)
- garda tine (“fire-guard”)
- garda traenach (“railway guard”)
- garda truicir (“trigger-guard”)
- gardáil (“guard”, verb)
- seomra garda (“guardroom”)
- teach garda (“guardhouse”)
Descendants
- → English: garda
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| garda | gharda | ngarda |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “garda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “garda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 45
Latvian
Adjective
garda
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
garda f
- crossguard, quillon
- Synonym: jelec
- (boxing) guard (way in which boxers position their hands in their stance)
Declension
Declension of garda
Further reading
- garda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- garda in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
garda f
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
gȃrda f (Cyrillic spelling га̑рда)
- guard (of a sovereign or an army commander)