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garda

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See also: Garda, gardă, gardā, and gárda

English

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Noun

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garda (plural gardai or gardaí)

  1. (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Garda
    • 2004, Ken Bruen, The Guards[1], →ISBN, page 38:
      A garda was ambling towards us.
    • 2023 August 15, Ken Foy, “Garda trainee sent home from Templemore over tattoo says he has been treated ‘very unfairly‘”, in Irish Independent, page 6:
      A trainee garda who was sent home from Templemore Garda College after he was told the tattoo on his hand id not comply with the force's dress and uniform code said he has been “treated very unfairly”.

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Franco-Provençal

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Verb

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garda (Genevois)

  1. Alternative form of gouardar (to guard)

References

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  • garda in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡaʁ.da/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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garda

  1. third-person singular past historic of garder

Galician

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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Verb

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garda

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

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Gothic

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Romanization

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garda

  1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Portuguese guarda, guardar, from Old Galician-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

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

Noun

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garda

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

Compounds

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Further reading

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French guarde, from guarder (to guard), from Frankish *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną.

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Noun

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garda m (genitive singular garda, nominative plural gardaí)

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

Declension

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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

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: garda

Mutation

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Mutated forms of garda
radical lenition eclipsis
garda gharda ngarda

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Latvian

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Adjective

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garda

  1. inflection of gards:
    1. genitive singular masculine
    2. nominative singular feminine

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from French garde.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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garda f

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

Declension

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Further reading

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

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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garda f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gardă

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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gȃrda f (Cyrillic spelling га̑рда)

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

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