nard

See also: Nard, närd, and n-ard

English

From Old French narde, from Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician, from Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”).

nard (countable and uncountable, plural nards)

A flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, flatulence, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.
A fragrant oil formerly much prized from the plant.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark XIV:
  there cam a woman with an alablaster boxe of oyntmenr, called narde, that was pure and costly, and she brake the boxe and powred it on his heed.
Spikenard

Alteration of nuts (“testicles”), most likely a phonetic variation of nads, itself an abbreviation of gonads

nard (plural nards)

(US, 1980s, slang, always plural) Testicles.
The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!

From Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician, from Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”).

nȁrd m (Cyrillic spelling на̏рд)

nard (plural nards)

declension of nard

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