bard

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)d/
• (US) IPA^(key): [bɑɹd]

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)d

(15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old 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”).

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.
   • 1837, Richard LLWYD, "The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, the Bard of Snowdon

     "He is a Welsh bard, and a man full of animation, anecdote, and independence; […] "

2. (by extension) A poet.

   Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.

• bardic

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

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.

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.

• Brad, brad, darb, drab

bard m (plural bards)

1. bard (a professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts)

• “bard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bard” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “bard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed either from German Barde or English bard. Ultimately 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”).

• IPA^(key): /bɑrt/

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• Hyphenation: bard
• Rhymes: -ɑrt

bard m (plural barden)

1. bard, Celtic poet, singer

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/

bard m (plural bards)

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

• (sawhorse): tréteau

• bárd (obsolete)

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

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑːɾˠd̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠæːɾˠd̪ˠ/

bard m (genitive singular baird, nominative plural baird)

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

• filíocht na mbard (“bardic poetry”)

• "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.

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

bard

1. beard

From Arabic بَارِد‎ (bārid).

bard

1. cold

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

bard m (genitive singular ?, plural bardyn)

1. bard
2. poet

• bardagh
• bardoonagh

• barde

From Old Norse barð.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːr/, /bɑrd/

bard m (definite singular barden, indefinite plural bardar, definite plural bardane)

1. a edge, rim, (river)bank

• “bard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Celtic *bardos.

• IPA^(key): /bar͈d/

bard m (genitive baird, nominative plural baird)

1. bard
2. poet

• éices
• fer cerda
• fili
• túar

• Irish: bard
• Manx: bard
• Scottish Gaelic: bàrd
  • → English: bard

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

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

bard

1. beard