garda

See also: Garda, gardă, gardā, and gárda

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish garda; doublet of guard.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: gar‧da

Noun

garda (plural gardai)

  1. (Ireland) A member of the Irish national police force, the Gardaí.
    • 2004, Ken Bruen, The Guards‎, →ISBN, page 38:
      A garda was ambling towards us.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaʁ.da/

Verb

garda

  1. third-person singular past historic of garder

Galician

Verb

garda

  1. third-person singular present indicative of gardar
  2. second-person singular imperative of gardar

Noun

garda

  1. maiden, servant
  2. guard, watchman, escort

Gothic

Romanization

garda

  1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French guarde.

Pronunciation

Noun

garda m (genitive singular garda, nominative plural gardaí)

  1. police officer, patrolman
  2. escort
  3. guard

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
garda gharda ngarda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "garda" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “garda” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latvian

Adjective

garda

  1. genitive singular masculine form of gards
  2. nominative singular feminine form of gards

Novial

Verb

garda (past gardad, active participle gardant, passive participle gardat)

  1. to guard

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡâːrda/
  • Hyphenation: gar‧da

Noun

gȃrda f (Cyrillic spelling га̑рда)

  1. guard (of a sovereign or an army commander)

Declension

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