garden

See also: Garden, gärden, and gården

English

A Japanese garden.

Etymology

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin. Displaced Old English wyrttūn.

Cognates

Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gärʹdən, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːdən/, /-n̩/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• (General American) enPR: gärʹdən, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɹdən/, /-n̩/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən
• Hyphenation: gar‧den

Noun

garden (plural gardens)

1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

   a vegetable garden

   a flower garden

   • 1629, John Parkinson, “The Situation of a Garden of Pleasure, with the Nature of Soyles, and How to Amend the Defects that are in Many Sorts of Situations and Grounds”, in Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. […], London: […] Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng […], →OCLC, page 1:

     […] I ſuppoſe the North ſide of the water to be the beſt ſide for your garden, that it may haue the comfort of the South Sunne to lye vpon it and face it, and the dwelling houſe to bee aboue it, to defend the cold windes and froſts both from your herbes, and flowers, and early fruits.

   1. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

      You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.

   2. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

      a garden party

      a garden path

      a garden spade

      • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

        The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely ices […] with every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat grapes, and nectarines.

2. (British, Ireland, Appalachia) The grounds at the front or back of a house.

   This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.

   We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.

   Our garden is overgrown with weeds.

3. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
4. (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
   • 1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11:

     Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.

5. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
   • 1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006

     Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.

   • N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than the intended meaning of Biblical Hebrew גַּן (gan) in 950 BC.
   • c. 2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -

     Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.

Synonyms

• (decorative place outside):
• (gardens with public access): park, public gardens
• (grounds at the front or back of a house): yard (US, Canada, Australia)
• (the pubic hair): See pubic hair

Hyponyms

• allotment garden
• alpine garden
• apothecary garden
• back garden
• baroque garden
• beer garden
• botanical garden
• cactus garden
• caretaker's garden
• castle garden
• Chinese garden
• community garden
• coral garden
• cottage garden
• country garden
• court garden
• courtyard garden
• cutting garden
• display garden
• dream garden
• Eden garden
• English garden
• English landscape garden
• flower garden
• French formal garden
• French garden
• French landscape garden
• front garden
• fruit garden
• garden of God (paradise)
• Greek garden
• herb garden
• hop garden
• household garden
• Islamic garden
• Italian garden
• Japanese garden
• keyhole garden
• kitchen garden
• knot garden (labyrinth)
• landscaped garden
• landscape garden
• market garden
• medicinal herb garden
• medicinal plant garden
• moon garden
• municipal garden
• olive garden
• orangery garden
• orchid garden
• organic garden
• ornamental garden
• palace garden
• palm garden
• paradise garden
• perennial garden
• Persian garden
• physic garden (British)
• pleasure garden
• pub garden (British)
• public gardens
• rear garden
• rock garden
• Roman garden
• roof garden
• rooftop garden
• rose garden
• school garden
• sculpture garden
• sensory garden
• show garden
• Spanish garden
• stroll garden
• strolling garden
• summer garden
• sunken garden
• tea garden
• terraced garden
• tropical garden
• vegetable garden
• water garden
• winter garden
• xerogarden
• Zen garden
• zoological garden(s)

 

Derived terms

• Allah's Garden
• bear garden
• black and gold garden spider
• black garden ant
• botanic garden
• carden
• common-and-garden
• common-or-garden
• common or garden
• common or garden variety
• devil's garden
• dragged through the garden
• European garden spider
• everything in the garden is lovely
• everything in the garden is rosy
• everything is rosy in the garden
• fairy garden
• food garden
• fungus garden
• fungus garden
• gamma garden
• gardenable
• gardenalia
• garden angelica
• garden apartment
• garden balsam
• garden boy
• gardenburger
• garden-burger
• garden burger
• garden center
• garden centipede
• garden centre
• garden chervil
• garden city, Garden City
• Garden County
• gardencraft
• garden cress
• garden croton
• garden dormouse
• garden eel
• garden egg
• garden engine
• garden escape
• gardenesque
• garden fleahopper
• garden fork
• gardenful
• garden gate
• garden glass
• garden gnome
• gardenhood
• garden hose
• garden house
• gardenish
• gardenize
• garden leave
• gardenless
• garden level
• gardenlike
• gardenly
• gardenmaker
• gardenmaking
• garden mint
• garden nail
• garden nasturtium
• garden net
• garden nightshade
• garden office
• garden party
• garden-path
• garden path
• garden path sentence
• garden-path sentence
• garden patience
• garden pea
• garden pizza
• Garden River
• gardenry
• garden salad
• garden shears
• garden shed
• garden snake
• garden soil
• garden sorrel
• garden syringe
• Garden Valley
• garden-variety
• garden variety
• garden warbler
• gardenward
• gardenwards
• gardenware
• gardenwear
• gardenwise
• gardenwork
• gardeny
• gazelle in the garden
• glass garden
• hanging garden
• Kew Gardens
• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
• kitchen-garden
• kitchen garden
• lady garden
• lead someone down the garden path, lead someone up the garden path
• make garden
• market-garden
• Miami Gardens
• moon garden
• Newgarden
• nongarden
• rain garden
• rocket garden
• rose-garden
• Ruislip Gardens
• run through the garden
• salt garden
• skunk at a garden party
• skunk at the garden party
• sky garden
• truck garden
• veggie garden
• vertical garden
• victory garden
• walled garden
• war garden
• yarden

 

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dyari
• → Nafaanra: yaadi

Translations

piece of land outside with flowers and plants

• Afrikaans: tuin (af)
• Albanian: kopsht (sq) m
• Alviri-Vidari: باغ (bāğ)
• Amharic: አጸድ (ʾäṣäd)
• Arabic: بُسْتَان (ar) (bustān), حَدِيقَة (ar) f (ḥadīqa), جَنَّة (ar) f (janna)

  Egyptian Arabic: جنينة f (ginēna)

  Hijazi Arabic: حَدِيقَة f (ḥadīga), بَخْشَة m (baḵša) (archaic)

  Moroccan Arabic: جردة (jarda), جنينة (jnīna)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: גַּנְּתָא f (gannəṯā), גִּנְּתָא f (ginnəṯā), גַּנָּא m (gannā), גִּנָּא m (ginnā)

  Syriac: ܓܢܬܐ f (gannəṯā, ginnəṯā)

• Archi: багъ (bağ)
• Armenian: այգի (hy) (aygi), պարտեզ (hy) (partez)
• Assamese: বাৰী (bari), বাগান (bagan)
• Asturian: xardín (ast)
• Avar: ах (ax)
• Azerbaijani: bağ (az), bağça
• Balinese: kebon
• Baluchi: باگ (bág)
• Bashkir: баҡса (baqsa)
• Basque: lorategi
• Bavarian: Goatn, Gartn
• Belarusian: сад m (sad)
• Bengali: উদ্দ্যান (udddan), বাগ (bn) (bag)
• Bhojpuri: बगीचा (bagīcā)
• Bulgarian: гради́на (bg) f (gradína)
• Burmese: ဥယျာဉ် (my) (u.yyany), ပန်းခြံ (my) (pan:hkram)
• Carpathian Rusyn: загорода f (zahoroda)
• Catalan: jardí (ca) m
• Cebuano: hardin
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵓⵔⵜⵉⵜ (turtit)
• Chechen: баьш (bäš), бе́ш (béš)
• Chichewa: munda
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 花園／花园 (faa¹ jyun^4-2)

  Dungan: хуайүан (huayüan)

  Eastern Min: 花園／花园 (huă-huòng)

  Hokkien: 花園／花园 (zh-min-nan) (hoe-hn̂g / hoa-hûiⁿ)

  Mandarin: 花園／花园 (zh) (huāyuán)

  Wu: 花園／花园 (¹ho-yoe₆)

• Classical Nahuatl: xōchichināncalli
• Corsican: ghjardinu m
• Czech: zahrada (cs) f
• Danish: have (da) c
• Dargwa: анхъ (anq)
• Dutch: tuin (nl) m ,gaard (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ḥzp)
• Esperanto: ĝardeno (eo)
• Estonian: aed (et)
• Faroese: urtagarður m
• Finnish: puutarha (fi)
• French: jardin (fr) m
• Friulian: zardin
• Galician: xardín (gl) m
• Georgian: ბაღი (ka) (baɣi)
• German: Garten (de) m

  Alemannic German: Garte m

• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 m (aurtigards)
• Greek: περιβόλι (el) n (perivóli)

  Ancient: κῆπος m (kêpos)

• Greenlandic: naatsiivik
• Gujarati: બગીચો (gu) m (bagīco), બાગ m (bāg)
• Haitian Creole: jaden
• Hebrew: גַּן (he) m (gan), בוסתן \ בֻּסְתָּן (he) m (bustán)
• Hiligaynon: hardin
• Hindi: बाग़ीचा m (bāġīcā), बाग़ m (bāġ), उद्यान (hi) m (udyān)
• Hiri Motu: uma
• Hungarian: kert (hu), virágoskert (hu)
• Icelandic: garður (is) m
• Ido: gardeno (io)
• Indonesian: taman (id), kebun (id)
• Ingrian: saadu
• Irish: gairdín (ga), garraí m
• Italian: giardino (it) m
• Japanese: 庭園 (ja) (ていえん, teien), 庭 (ja) (にわ, niwa), 花園 (ja) (hanazono)
• Javanese: kebon (jv), taman (jv)
• Kabuverdianu: jardin
• Kannada: ತೋಟ (kn) (tōṭa)
• Kashubian: ògard, ògród m
• Kazakh: бақ (baq), бау (bau)
• Khmer: សួន (km) (suən)
• Kikuyu: mũgũnda class 3
• Korean: 정원(庭園) (ko) (jeong'won)
• Kumyk: бав (baw)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gulistan (ku) f, baxçe (ku) m, bax (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: бак (ky) (bak)
• Laboya: oma
• Lao: ສວນ (lo) (sūan)
• Latgalian: duorzs m
• Latin: hortus (la) m, pōmārium n, viridārium n
• Latvian: dārzs m
• Lithuanian: sodas (lt) m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Goorn (nds) m

• Lü: ᦷᦉᧃ (ṡon)
• Macedonian: градина f (gradina)
• Malay: taman (ms), kebun (ms)
• Malayalam: തോട്ടം (ml) (tōṭṭaṁ)
• Maltese: ġnien m
• Manchu: ᠶᠠᡶᠠᠨ (yafan)
• Marathi: बगीचा (bagīcā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цэцэрлэг (mn) (cecerleg), хүрээлэн (mn) (xüreelen)

• Navajo: dáʼákʼeh
• Neapolitan: ciardino m
• Ngazidja Comorian: ɓustani class 5/6
• Norman: gardîn m (Jersey), gardin m (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hage (no) m, have (no) m (Riksmål)

  Nynorsk: hage m

• Occitan: jardin (oc) m
• Ojibwe: gitigaan
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: врьтьпъ m (vrĭtĭpŭ), садъ m (sadŭ)

• Old English: wyrttūn m
• Old Javanese: kĕbwan, taman
• Oromo: manduubee
• Ossetian: бӕласдон (bælasdon)
• Ottoman Turkish: باغچه (bağçe), باغ (bağ), جنت (cennet), فردوس (firdevs)
• Pali: please add this translation if you can
• Pannonian Rusyn: заграда f (zahrada)
• Pashto: بڼ (ps) m (baṇ)
• Pela: kʰjɛ̃⁵⁵, pɛ̃³¹ kʰjɛ̃⁵⁵
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: باغ (fa) (bâğ), باغْچِه (fa) (bâğče), پالیز (fa) (pâliz)

• Picard: gardin
• Plautdietsch: Goaden m
• Polish: sad (pl) m, ogród (pl) m
• Portuguese: jardim (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਬਗੀਚਾ m (bagīcā), ਬਾਗ m (bāg), ਵਾੜੀ f (vāṛī)

• Romanian: grădină (ro) f
• Romansch: curtin m (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader), curtgin m (Sursilvan), curtgegn m (Sutsilvan), curtgign m (Surmiran)
• Russian: сад (ru) m (sad)
• Sanskrit: उद्यान (sa) n (udyāna)
• Saterland Frisian: Tuun
• Scottish Gaelic: gàrradh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вр̏т m, по̀вртња̄к m, вртњак m, са̑д m, садњак m, посадњак m, ба́шта f, ба́шча f

  Roman: vȑt (sh) m, pòvrtnjāk (sh) m, vrtnjak m, sȃd (sh) m, sadnjak m, posadnjak m, bášta (sh) f, bášča (sh) f

• Shan: သူၼ် (shn) (sǔun)
• Sicilian: jardinu (scn) m
• Sindhi: बागु m (baaghu)
• Sinhalese: වත්ත (watta)
• Slovak: záhrada f, záhradka f
• Slovene: vrt (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zagroda f (in general), gumno n (area behind a barn for fruits and vegetables), gumnyško (small garden allotment)

  Upper Sorbian: zahroda f, zahrodka f

• Spanish: jardín (es) m, parterre m
• Sranan Tongo: dyari
• Swahili: shamba (sw), bustani (sw)
• Swedish: trädgård (sv) c
• Tagalog: hardin (tl), lagwerta
• Tajik: боғ (tg) (boġ), боғча (boġča)
• Talysh: boğ
• Tamil: தோட்டம் (ta) (tōṭṭam)
• Taos: wàltoʼóna
• Tarantino: sciardìne m
• Tat: bağ
• Tatar: бакча (tt) (baqça)
• Telugu: తోట (te) (tōṭa), ఉద్యానవనము (te) (udyānavanamu)
• Thai: สวน (th) (sǔuan)
• Tibetan: ལྡུམ་ར (ldum ra)
• Tigrinya: ጀርዲን (ǧärdin)
• Tocharian B: werpiśke, werwiye
• Turkish: bahçe (tr)
• Turkmen: bag (tk), mellek
• Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎐 (gn)
• Ukrainian: сад (uk) m (sad)
• Urdu: باغِیچَہ m (bāġīca), باغ m (bāġ)
• Uyghur: باغ (ug) (bagh), باغچا (baghcha)
• Uzbek: bogʻ (uz), bogʻcha (uz)
• Venetan: xardin m, jardin
• Vietnamese: vườn (vi)
• Volapük: gad (vo)
• Walloon: corti (wa) m, djårdén (wa) m
• Welsh: gardd (cy)
• West Frisian: tún
• White Hmong: vaj
• Yagnobi: боғ (boġ)
• Yiddish: גאָרטן m (gortn)
• Zazaki: baxçe (diq), hêga (diq) m
• Zhuang: suen

a vegetable garden

• Azerbaijani: bostan (az)
• Belarusian: агаро́д m (aharód)
• Catalan: hort (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏠᎨᏏ (tlogesi)
• Cheyenne: ho'eo'o
• Finnish: kasvimaa (fi)
• Georgian: ბაღჩა (ka) (baɣča), ბოსტანი (bosṭani)
• Greek:

  Ancient: λαχανεία f (lakhaneía)

• Hungarian: veteményeskert (hu)
• Italian: orto (it) m
• Kikuyu: mũgũnda class 3
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بێستان (bêstan)

  Northern Kurdish: bîstan (ku)

• Latin: hortus (la) m
• Ojibwe: gitigaan
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: بوسْتان (fa) (bustân), بُسْتان (fa) (bostân)

• Plautdietsch: Goaden m
• Polish: ogródek (pl) m
• Russian: огоро́д (ru) m (ogoród), бахча́ (ru) f (baxčá) (for (water-)melons or pumpkins)
• Spanish: huerto (es) m, hortal m, hortaliza (es) f, huerta (es) f (large)
• Turkish: bostan (tr)
• Ukrainian: горо́д (uk) m (horód)
• Volapük: härbatagad (vo)
• White Hmong: vaj
• Zazaki: boston (diq)

gardens with public access

• Armenian: զբոսայգի (hy) (zbosaygi), այգի (hy) (aygi)
• Azerbaijani: bağ (az)
• Bashkir: баҡса (baqsa)
• Bavarian: Goatn, Gartn
• Bulgarian: парк (bg) m (park)
• Catalan: jardí (ca) m, parc (ca) m, jardí públic
• Czech: zahrada (cs) f
• Danish: have (da) c, park (da) c, anlæg n
• Dutch: tuin (nl) m, park (nl) n
• Estonian: park (et)
• Finnish: puutarha (fi), puisto (fi)
• French: jardin public (fr) m, parc (fr) m
• Galician: parque (gl) m
• Georgian: ბაღი (ka) (baɣi)
• German: Garten (de) m
• Greek: πάρκο (el) n (párko)

  Ancient: παράδεισος m (parádeisos)

• Hungarian: park (hu)
• Indonesian: taman (id)
• Irish: gairdín (ga)
• Italian: giardino pubblico m, parco (it) m
• Japanese: 広場 (ja) (ひろば, hiroba)
• Kabuverdianu: jardin
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: باخچە (ckb) (baxçe), باغ (baẍ), باخ (ckb) (bax)

  Northern Kurdish: bax (ku) m, baxçe (ku) m

• Latvian: parks m
• Lithuanian: parkas (lt) m
• Macedonian: градина f (gradina)
• Malayalam: ഉദ്യാനം (ml) (udyānaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: park (no) m, hageanlegg n

  Nynorsk: hageanlegg n

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: پَرْدیس (fa) (pardis), بوسْتان (fa) (bustân), بُسْتان (fa) (bostân), پارْک (fa) (pârk)

• Polish: ogród (pl) m
• Portuguese: parque (pt) m
• Romanian: parc (ro) n, grădina publică f
• Russian: сад (ru) m (sad), парк (ru) m (park)
• Slovak: záhrada f, záhradka f
• Slovene: vrt (sl) m
• Spanish: jardines (es) m pl
• Swedish: park (sv) c
• Tamil: பூங்கா (ta) (pūṅkā), கடி (ta) (kaṭi)
• Telugu: ఉద్యానవనం (te) (udyānavanaṁ)
• Turkish: park (tr)
• Walloon: djårdén (wa) m
• White Hmong: vaj
• Zazaki: baqse

grounds at the front or back of a house

• Afrikaans: tuin (af), (at the front) voortuin, (backyard) agterplaas
• Bashkir: баҡса (baqsa)
• Bavarian: Goatn, Gartn
• Belarusian: сад m (sad), агаро́д m (aharód) (vegetable garden)
• Bulgarian: гради́на (bg) f (gradína)
• Burmese: ဥယျာဉ် (my) (u.yyany)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菜園／菜园 (zh) (càiyuán) (vegetable garden)

• Czech: zahrada (cs) f
• Danish: have (da) c
• Dutch: tuin (nl) m
• Esperanto: gazono
• Estonian: aed (et), juurviljaaed
• Finnish: puutarha (fi)
• French: jardin (fr) m
• Galician: xardín (gl) m
• Georgian: ბოსტანი (bosṭani)
• German: Garten (de) m, (at the front of a house) Vorgarten (de) m
• Greek: κήπος (el) m (kípos)
• Hungarian: kert (hu), udvar (hu)
• Ingrian: tarhas
• Irish: gairdín (ga)
• Italian: giardino (it) m
• Japanese: 庭 (ja) (にわ, niwa), 菜園 (ja) (さいえん, saien) (vegetable garden), 野菜畑 (ja) (やさいばたけ, yasaibatake) (vegetable garden)
• Kabuverdianu: jardin
• Kazakh: бақша (baqşa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dermal (ku) f, baxçe (ku) m, bax (ku) m

• Macedonian: градина f (gradina), двор (mk) m (dvor)
• Norman: gardîn m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hage (no) m, tomt (no) m

• Ossetian: цӕхӕрадон (cæxæradon)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: باغْچِه (fa) (bâğče)

• Polish: ogród (pl) m, działka (pl) f
• Portuguese: quintal (pt) m
• Romanian: grădină (ro) f, curte (ro) f
• Romansch: curtin m (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader), curtgin m (Sursilvan), curtgegn m (Sutsilvan), curtgign m (Surmiran)
• Russian: сад (ru) m (sad), бахча́ (ru) f (baxčá) (for (water-)melons or pumpkins)
• Slovak: záhrada f, záhradka f
• Slovene: vrt (sl) m
• Spanish: jardín (es) m
• Swedish: tomt (sv) c, trädgård (sv) c
• Tajik: боғча (boġča)
• Telugu: పెరడు (te) (peraḍu)
• Turkish: arkabahçe (tr), ön bahçe
• Ukrainian: сад (uk) m (sad), го́род (uk) m (hórod) (vegetable garden)
• Vietnamese: vườn rau
• Walloon: djårdén (wa) m
• White Hmong: vaj
• Yakut: оҕуруот (oğuruot)

slang: the pubic hair

• Finnish: karvoitus (fi)
• German: Gestrüpp (de) n
• Italian: foresta (it) f
• Macedonian: шума (mk) f (šuma)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: مویِ زَهار (mu-ye zahâr)

• Polish: łoniaki m pl
• Portuguese: brenha (pt) f, matagal (pt) m
• Romanian: iarbă (ro) f
• Russian: волосня́ (ru) f (volosnjá)
• Spanish: felpudo (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Central Atlas Tamazight: ^{(please verify)} ⵜⵓⵔⵜⵉⵜ f (turtit)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} врт
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} gad (vo)

Verb

garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

   Synonym: (dated) make garden

   I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

2. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

   Synonym: farm

Derived terms

• gardener
• gardening (noun)

Translations

grow plants

• Bulgarian: обработвам градина (obrabotvam gradina)
• Danish: lave havearbejde (da)
• Dutch: tuinieren (nl)
• Esperanto: ĝardeni
• Finnish: hoitaa puutarhaa
• French: jardiner (fr)
• German: gärtnern (de)
• Greek: κηπεύω (el) (kipévo), καλλιεργώ κήπο (kalliergó kípo), περιποιούμαι κήπο (peripiúme cípo) (cultivate or farm a garden)
• Hebrew: גִּנֵּן m (ginén)
• Norman: gardinner
• Ojibwe: gitige
• Persian: باغبانی کردن (bâğbâni kardan)
• Polish: uprawiać ogródek impf
• Portuguese: jardinar (pt)
• Romanian: face grădinărie, grădinări (ro)
• Russian: садо́вничать (ru) (sadóvničatʹ) (colloquial); огоро́дничать (ru) (ogoródničatʹ) (in vegetable garden; colloq.)
• Slovene: vrtnariti
• Spanish: trabajar el jardín
• Swahili: shamba (sw)
• Swedish: arbeta (sv) i trädgård (sv)en, ägna (sv) sig åt trädgårdsskötsel (sv)
• Turkish: bahçe işi ile/işiyle meşgul olmak (tr)/uğraşmak (tr)
• Volapük: gadön (vo)
• Zazaki: beğban c

in cricket

• Finnish: näpäyttää kenttää mailalla
• Swahili: shamba (sw)

Adjective

garden (not comparable)

1. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

   Synonym: garden variety

Anagrams

• Gander, danger, gander, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Cebuano

Etymology

From English garden.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gar‧den

Noun

garden

1. a garden

Verb

garden

1. to make or turn into a garden

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:garden.

Danish

Noun

garden c

1. definite singular of garde

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

garden

1. plural of garde

Galician

Verb

garden

1. inflection of gardar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Northern French gardin.

Noun

garden

1. Alternative form of gardyn

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman guardein.

Noun

garden

1. Alternative form of gardein

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of gard
2. definite singular of garde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [¹ɡɐ̞ːren], [¹ɡɐ̞ːɳ̩]

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of gard

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɡɑrdn̩/

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of garde

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From Dutch gordijn (“curtain”).

Noun

garden

1. window blind
2. awning (shelter from sunlight)

Swedish

Noun

garden

1. indefinite plural of garde