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/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

garda

  1. third-person singular past historic of garder

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese guarda, probably a back-formation from gardar.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡaɾðɐ]

Noun

garda f (plural gardas)

  1. guard, watchman, escort
  2. (collective, military) guard, squad
  3. (collective) police
  4. (uncountable) guard; watch
  5. (uncountable) protection; keep; custody

Derived terms
  • A Guarda

Verb

garda

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

References
  • “garda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “garda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “garda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “garda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “garda” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic

Romanization

garda

  1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰

Indonesian

Etymology

From Portuguese guarda, guardar, from Old Portuguese guardar, from Medieval Latin wardō, from Frankish *wardōn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (“to guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Doublet of gardu.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡar.da]
  • Hyphenation: gar‧da

Noun

garda (first-person possessive gardaku, second-person possessive gardamu, third-person possessive gardanya)

  1. guard, person who or thing that protects something.
    Synonym: pengawal

Compounds

Further reading

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
  • 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 síochána (“guardian of the peace”)
  • garda slabhra (“chain guard”)
  • garda tine (“fire-guard”)
  • garda traenach (“railway guard”)
  • garda truicir (“trigger-guard”)
  • seomra garda (“guardroom”)
  • teach garda (“guardhouse”)

Descendants
  • → English: 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

Latvian

Adjective

garda

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garde.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡar.da/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -arda
  • Syllabification: gar‧da

Noun

garda f

  1. crossguard, quillon
    Synonym: jelec
  2. (boxing) guard (way in which boxers position their hands in their stance)

Declension
Declension of garda
singular plural
nominative garda gardy
genitive gardy gard
dative gardzie gardom
accusative gardę gardy
instrumental gardą gardami
locative gardzie gardach
vocative gardo gardy

Further reading
  • garda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • garda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡarda]

Noun

garda f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gardă

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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