resguardar

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

resguardar (first-person singular present resguardo, first-person singular preterite resguardí, past participle resguardat)

1. (transitive) to protect, shield

• “resguardar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “resguardar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “resguardar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “resguardar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

re- +‎ esguardar

• Hyphenation: res‧guar‧dar

resguardar (first-person singular present resguardo, first-person singular preterite resguardei, past participle resguardado)

1. to shelter or protect something
2. to observe (to follow or obey the custom, practice or rules)
3. to face (to have the front in a certain direction)

• resguardo

• guardar

From re- +‎ es- (from Latin ex-) +‎ guardar.

• IPA^(key): /resɡwaɾˈdaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: res‧guar‧dar

resguardar (first-person singular present resguardo, first-person singular preterite resguardé, past participle resguardado)

1. to safeguard, to protect
2. (reflexive) to hunker down, to take shelter

• “resguardar”, 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