bard

See also: Bard, bárd, bàrd, Bård, and bård

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɑː(ɹ)d/
  • (US) IPA(key): [bɑɹd]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(r)d

Etymology 1

(15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bard, Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, descended from the same. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).

Noun

bard (plural bards)

  1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
  2. (by extension) A poet.
    Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From French barde. English since the late 15th century.

Noun

bard (plural bards)

  1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
  2. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  3. (cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  5. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
Translations

Verb

bard (third-person singular simple present bards, present participle barding, simple past and past participle barded)

  1. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 29:
      The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded, consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece.
  2. (cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

(15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bard, Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”). Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: bard

Noun

bard m (plural barden)

  1. bard, Celtic poet, singer

French

Noun

bard m (plural bards)

  1. A sort of stretcher, with no wheels, used for transporting materials
  2. A sawhorse

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos.

Pronunciation

Noun

bard m (genitive singular baird, nominative plural baird)

  1. poet (of a certain rank); bard
  2. scold

Declension

Derived terms

  • filíocht na mbard (“bardic poetry”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bard bhard mbard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "bard" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “bard” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “bárd” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 60.

Ludian

Etymology

Related to Finnish parta, form influenced by Russian борода (boroda).

Noun

bard

  1. beard

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بَارِد‎ (bārid).

Adjective

bard

  1. cold

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos.

Noun

bard m (genitive singular ?, plural bardyn)

  1. bard
  2. poet

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bard vard mard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Synonyms

  • bardagh
  • bardoonagh

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bardos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar͈d/

Noun

bard m

  1. bard
  2. poet

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative bard bardL bairdL
Vocative baird bardL bardu
Accusative bardN bardL bardu
Genitive bairdL bard bardN
Dative bardL bardaib bardaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

  • éices
  • fer cerda
  • fili
  • túar

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bard bard
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ 		mbard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • “bard” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish parta, form influenced by Russian борода (boroda).

Noun

bard

  1. beard
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