fard

See also: färd

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɑː(ɹ)d/
    Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Middle French, from Old French fard (“make-up, cosmetics”), from farder (“to apply make-up, use cosmetics”), from Old Frankish *farwidōn (“to dye, colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną (“to colour”), from *farwō (“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old High German farwjan (“to colour”) (German Farbe (“colour”)), Middle Low German varwe (“colour”) (Low German Farwe (“colour”)), Latin pulcher (“beautiful”), Welsh erch (“dark brown”).

Alternative forms

  • faird (16th century, Scottish)
  • feard (16th century)

Noun

fard (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
    • 1791, John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
      Painted with French fard.
Translations

Verb

fard (third-person singular simple present fards, present participle farding, simple past and past participle farded)

  1. (transitive, archaic) to paint, as the face or cheeks
    • Zachary Boyd
      The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
  2. (transitive, archaic) to gloss over or embellish
    • 1606, William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall
      Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.
    • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord
      Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.
Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology at ferd. Closely cognate to Scots faird.

Alternative forms

Noun

fard (plural fards)

  1. (obsolete) force of movement, impetus, rush, violent onset

Etymology 3

From Arabic فَرْض‎ (farḍ).

Noun

fard (plural fards)

  1. (Islam) a commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfill

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French fard (“make-up, cosmetics”), from farder (“to apply make-up, use cosmetics”), from Old Frankish *farwidōn (“to dye, colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną (“to colour”), from *farwō (“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old High German farwjan (“to colour”), Middle Low German varwe (“colour”). See more above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faʁ/

Noun

fard m (plural fards)

  1. make-up

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Noun

fard m (invariable)

  1. blusher, rouge

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic فَرْد‎ (fard).

Adjective

fard

  1. odd (not even)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fardiz.

Noun

fard f

  1. traffic, journey
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