# barda
## Catalan
### Etymology

From a pre-Roman and perhaps pre-Indo-European substrate word *barda "brambles, branches" and, by extension, an enclosure reinforced with them.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbar.də]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbaɾ.ða]

### Noun

barda f (plural bardes)
* fold, pen (enclosure for domestic animals)
* slope

#### Derived terms

* bardissa

### Further reading

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

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “packsaddle”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baʁ.da/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

barda m (plural bardas)
* (military) gear
* (informal) luggage, loading
* (Quebec, slang) mess, jumble

### Verb

barda
* third-person singular past historic of barder

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* brada

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbaɾðɐ]

### Etymology 1

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *wradyos (compare Welsh gwraidd, "root").

#### Noun

barda f (plural bardas)
* hedge
    Synonyms: bardal, sebe
* stake for fencing; flagstone
    Synonyms: chanto, estaca, vargo
* haystack

##### Derived terms

* Barda

##### Related terms

* bardado
* bardal
* bardanca
* bardar
* bardasca
* bardo
* embarda
* embardar

### Etymology 2

From Arabic بَرْدَة (barda), ultimately from Middle Persian pltk' (pardag). Compare to Persian پرده (parde), Old Armenian պարտակ (partak), and Classical Syriac ܦܪܕܩܐ (pardəqā).

#### Noun

barda f (plural bardas)
* a piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “barda II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “barda”, 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), “barda (zarrume)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “barda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* bárda (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English ward (with /w/ interpreted as lenited bh, and radical b derived from that by back-formation), from Old English weard (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /ˈbˠɑːɾˠdˠə/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈbˠæːɾˠdˠə/

### Noun

barda m (genitive singular barda, nominative plural bardaí)
* guard, warden
* garrison
* guardianship, ward

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
barda
bardaí
vocative
a bharda
a bhardaí
genitive
barda
bardaí
dative
barda
bardaí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an barda
na bardaí
genitive
an bharda
na mbardaí
dative
leis an mbarda don bharda
leis na bardaí :

#### Synonyms

* (ward):
** (division of city): barda cathrach
** (part of hospital): barda ospidéil

#### Derived terms

* bardach m (“warden”)
* bardacht f (“wardship; guardianship”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barda”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “barda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbar.da/
* Rhymes: -arda
* Hyphenation: bàr‧da

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

#### Noun

barda f (plural barde)
* a saddle without saddlebow
* bard
    Synonyms: armatura, bardatura, finimenti, gualdrappa

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

barda
* inflection of bardare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* barda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* brada

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* bārda: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbaːr.da/, [ˈbäːrd̪ä]
* bārda: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbar.da/, [ˈbärd̪ä]
* bārdā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbaːr.daː/, [ˈbäːrd̪äː]
* bārdā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbar.da/, [ˈbärd̪ä]

### Adjective

bārda
* inflection of bārdus:
** nominative/vocative singular feminine
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

bārdā
* ablative singular feminine of bārdus

### References

* barda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbar.da/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arda
* Syllabification: bar‧da

### Noun

barda n
* inflection of bardo:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Noun

barda m pers
* genitive/accusative singular of bard

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Compare Spanish barda (“fence”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.dɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.dɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈbaɾ.dɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈbaʁ.dɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbaɻ.da/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbaɾ.dɐ/ [ˈbaɾ.ðɐ]
* Hyphenation: bar‧da

### Noun

barda f (plural bardas)
* hedge
    Synonym: sebe

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaɾda/ [ˈbaɾ.ð̞a]
* Rhymes: -aɾda
* Syllabification: bar‧da

### Etymology 1

Compare Portuguese barda (“hedge”).

#### Noun

barda f (plural bardas)
* (Mexico) fence
    Synonyms: alambrada, alambrado, cerca, cerramiento, valla

##### Derived terms

* brincarse alguien la barda
* saltarse alguien la barda
* volarse alguien la barda
* volarse una barda

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian barda, from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

#### Noun

barda f (plural bardas)
* barding

### Further reading

* “barda”, 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

## Turkish
### Noun

barda
* definite locative singular of bar