# garda
## English
### Noun

garda (plural gardai or gardaí)
* (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Garda
** 2004, Ken Bruen, The Guards‎, →ISBN, page 38:A garda was ambling towards us.
** 2023 August 15, Ken Foy, “Garda trainee sent home from Templemore over tattoo says he has been treated ‘very unfairly‘”, in Irish Independent, page 6:A trainee garda who was sent home from Templemore Garda College after he was told the tattoo on his hand id not comply with the force's dress and uniform code said he has been “treated very unfairly”.

### Anagrams

* Agard

## Franco-Provençal
### Verb

garda (Genevois)
* Alternative form of gouardar (“to guard”)

### References

* garda in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaʁ.da/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

garda
* third-person singular past historic of garder

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese guarda, probably a back-formation from gardar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡaɾðɐ]

### Noun

garda f (plural gardas)
* guard, watchman, escort
* (collective, military) guard, squad
* (collective) police
* (uncountable) guard; watch
* (uncountable) protection; keep; custody

#### Derived terms

* A Guarda

### Verb

garda
* inflection of gardar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “garda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garda”, 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), “garda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Gothic
### Romanization

garda
* Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Portuguese guarda, guardar, from Old Galician-Portuguese guardar, from Medieval Latin wardō, from Frankish *wardōn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (“to guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Doublet of gardu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡar.da]
* Hyphenation: gar‧da

### Noun

garda (plural garda-garda)
* guard, person who or thing that protects something
    Synonym: pengawal

#### Compounds

* garda depan

### Further reading

* “garda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* gárda (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Old French guarde, from guarder (“to guard”), from Frankish *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /ˈɡɑːɾˠd̪ˠə/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈɡaːɾˠd̪ˠə/

### Noun

garda m (genitive singular garda, nominative plural gardaí)
* police officer, patrolman
* escort
* guard

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
garda
gardaí
vocative
a gharda
a ghardaí
genitive
garda
gardaí
dative
garda
gardaí
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an garda
na gardaí
genitive
an gharda
na ngardaí
dative
leis an ngarda don gharda
leis na gardaí :

#### Synonyms

* constábla
* garda síochána
* péas
* póilín

#### Derived terms

* bangharda (“policewoman”)
* dul ar garda (“to mount guard”)
* Garda
* garda a sheasamh (“to stand guard, sentinel”)
* garda abhann (“river guard”)
* garda coille (“forest guard”)
* garda cosanta (“bodyguard”)
* garda cósta (“coastguard”)
* garda cuain (“harbour guard”)
* garda gradaim (“guard of honour”)
* garda rámha (“oar-guard, clamp”)
* garda saighdiúirí (“guard, body, of soldiers”)
* garda síochána (“guardian of the peace”)
* garda slabhra (“chain guard”)
* garda tine (“fire-guard”)
* garda traenach (“railway guard”)
* garda truicir (“trigger-guard”)
* gardáil (“guard”, verb)
* seomra garda (“guardroom”)
* teach garda (“guardhouse”)

#### Descendants

* → English: garda

### 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) “garda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* “garda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
* Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 45

## Latvian
### Adjective

garda
* inflection of gards:
** genitive masculine singular
** nominative feminine singular

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French garde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡar.da/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arda
* Syllabification: gar‧da
* Homophone: Garda

### Noun

garda f
* crossguard, quillon
    Synonym: jelec
* (boxing) guard (way in which boxers position their hands in their stance)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* garda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* garda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡarda]

### Noun

garda f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of gardă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡâːrda/
* Hyphenation: gar‧da

### Noun

gȃrda f (Cyrillic spelling га̑рда)
* guard (of a sovereign or an army commander)