# sard
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɑː(ɹ)d/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

### Etymology 1

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

#### Noun

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)
* (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
* Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorþan (“to violate, rape”), borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

#### Verb

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)
* (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
    Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
** 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152:Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.
** 1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes:Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.
** 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:[…] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]
** 1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.

#### Further reading

* John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101

### Anagrams

* Sadr, ADS-R, RADs, rads, RDS.A, RDAs, SADR, ARDS, dars, Dras, ADRs, ards

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈsart]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈsaɾt]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sardus.

#### Adjective

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)
* Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)

#### Noun

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)
* Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)

#### Noun

sard m (uncountable)
* Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

##### Related terms

* Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

### Etymology 2

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.

#### Noun

sard m (plural sards)
* white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)
    Synonym: sarg

### Further reading

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

## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

Related to Persian سرد (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

### Adjective

sard
* cold

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French Sarde.

### Adjective

sard m or n (feminine singular sardă, masculine plural sarzi, feminine and neuter plural sarde)
* Sardinian

#### Declension
### Noun

sard m (plural sarzi)
* Sardinian (someone from Sardinia)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sardus. Doublet of sardin and sardell.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sard/, /sɑːrd/

### Noun

sard c
* Sardinian (person from Sardinia)

#### Synonyms

* sardinare
* sardinier

#### Related terms

* Sardinien
* sardinsk

### References

* sard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* sard in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* sard in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)