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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒar.da/
- Rhymes: -arda
- Hyphenation: giàr‧da
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic جَرَذ (jaraḏ). Compare Medieval Latin zarda.
Noun
giarda f (plural giarde)
- (veterinary medicine) spavin
- Synonym: giardone
1605 [1304–1309], “Delle infermità de’ cavalli, e cure loro [On the illnesses of horses, and cure thereof]” (chapter 10), Libro nono - Di tutti gli animali, che si nutricano in villa [Ninth book - On all the animals which are fed on the farm], in Bastiano de' Rossi, transl., Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise on agriculture], Florence: Cosimo Giusti, translation of Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi (in Medieval Latin), page 408:[il cavallo] alcuna volta nasce con giarde- is sometimes born with spavins
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Etymology 2
Perhaps from a metaphorical meaning of the above.
Noun
giarda f (plural giarde)
- (archaic) prank, joke
- Synonyms: beffa, burla
- (archaic) deception, lie
- Synonyms: bugia, inganno, menzogna
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