# gord
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɔː(ɹ)d/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

### Etymology 1

Perhaps hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.

#### Alternative forms

* gourd

#### Noun

gord (plural gords)
* (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
** c. 1613–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Scornful Lady, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):And thy dry bones can reach at nothing now, But gords or nine-pins

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *gordъ. Doublet of yard and garth.

#### Noun

gord (plural gords)
* (archaeology) A medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, typically a group of wooden houses surrounded by a wall of earth and wood, with a palisade running along the top of the bulwark.

### References

* ↑ “gord”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* GDOR, ROGD

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin gurdus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡort]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡoɾt]

### Adjective

gord (feminine gorda, masculine plural gords, feminine plural gordes)
* (Valencia, Eivissa) fat
    Synonym: gras
* stale, old, dry
    Synonyms: dur, sec

#### Derived terms

* gordària
* gordesa

### Further reading

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

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

gord
* inflection of gorden:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *gorton ‘hedge, enclosure’; cf. Irish gort, Cornish gorth, Welsh garth.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɔʁ/

### Noun

gord m (plural gords)
* crawl, a stake enclosure at a body of water to catch fish

### Further reading

* “gord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indo-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Portuguese gordo (“fat”), from Old Galician-Portuguese gordo, from Latin gurdus.

### Adjective

gord
* (Diu) fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one’s body)
** 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to feast on:

## Polabian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɔrt/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gordъ.

#### Noun

gord m inan
* castle; court

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gorďь.

#### Noun

gord f
* barn

### References

* Polański, Kazimierz (1971) “gord”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich (in Polish), number 2 (ďüzd – ľotü), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 170
* Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “gord”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 66

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъrdъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡôːrd/

### Adjective

gȏrd (Cyrillic spelling го̑рд, definite gȏrdī, comparative gordiji)
* proud
* arrogant

#### Derived terms

* górdōst

#### See also

* ponosan

### Further reading

* “gord”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024