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 national police force of the Republic of Ireland, 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
Declension of garda

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative garda gardaí
Vocative a gharda a ghardaí
Genitive garda gardaí
Dative garda gardaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an garda na gardaí
Genitive an gharda na ngardaí
Dative leis an ngarda

don gharda

 leis na gardaí

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • bangharda (“policewoman”)
  • dul ar garda (“to mount guard”)
  • garda abhann (“river guard”)
  • garda a sheasamh (“to stand guard, sentinel”)
  • garda coille (“forest guard”)
  • garda cosanta (“bodyguard”)
  • garda cósta (“coastguard”)
  • garda cuain (“harbour guard”)
  • garda gradaim (“guard of honour”)
  • gardáil (“guard”, verb)
  • garda rámha (“oar-guard, clamp”)
  • garda saighdiúirí (“guard, body, of soldiers”)
  • garda tine (“fire-guard”)
  • garda traenach (“railway guard”)
  • garda truicir (“trigger-guard”)
  • seomra garda (“guardroom”)
  • teach garda (“guardhouse”)
  • Garda

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
Declension of garda
singular plural
nominative garda garde
genitive garde garda
dative gardi gardama
accusative gardu garde
vocative gardo garde
locative gardi gardama
instrumental gardom gardama
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