# nard
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /nɑɹd/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /nɑːd/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

### Etymology 1

From Middle English narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”). Doublet of nardus.

#### Noun

nard (countable and uncountable, plural nards)
* A flowering plant of species Nardostachys jatamansi, in the valerian family, that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
* A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[3], folio lxvj, recto:[…] there cam a womã with an alablaſter boxe of oyntment / called narde / that was pure and coſtly / and ſhe brake the boxe ãd powred it on his heed.
* American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.

##### Synonyms

* nardus (obsolete)
* (Nardostachys jatamansi): nardin, muskroot

##### Derived terms

* spikenard

##### Translations
#### References

* nard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Nardostachys jatamansi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* “nard”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* nard, in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1987.

### Etymology 2

Alteration of nuts (“testicles”) or nads (“gonads”).

#### Noun

nard (plural nards)
* (US, 1980s, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
    The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!
** 2006, Max Brooks, World War Z:I’m sure whoever was in charge must have been one of the last of the Fulda Fucktards, you know, those generals who spent their nard-drop years training to defend West Germany from Ivan.

##### Synonyms

* (testicles): ball, nut

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Persian نرد (nard)

#### Alternative forms

* narde

#### Noun

nard (uncountable)
* A Persian game similar to backgammon.

### Anagrams

* DNAR, DNRA, RAND, Rand, andr-, darn, rDNA, rand, rdna

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nardus (“spikenard”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈnart]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈnaɾt]

### Noun

nard m (plural nards)
* tuberose (Agave amica)

### Further reading

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

## French
### Etymology

From Latin nardus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nard m (plural nards)
* (botany) matgrass (Nardus)

#### Derived terms

* nard celtique
* nard de Crète
* nard de montagne
* nard indien
* nard indique
* nard raide
* nard sauvage

### Further reading

* “nard” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
* “nard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Noun

nard
* Alternative form of narde

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Greek νάρδος (nárdos).

### Noun

nard m (uncountable)
* nard (Nardostachys jatamansi)

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician, from Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nârd/

### Noun

nȁrd m (Cyrillic spelling на̏рд)
* nard (plant or oil)

### References

* “nard”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Volapük
### Noun

nard (nominative plural nards)
* valerian

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only