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From a pre-Roman and perhaps pre-Indo-European substrate word *barda "brambles, branches" and, by extension, an enclosure reinforced with them.

barda f (plural bardes)

  1. fold, pen (enclosure for domestic animals)
  2. slope

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “packsaddle”).

barda m (plural bardas)

  1. (military) gear
  2. (informal) luggage, loading
  3. (Quebec, slang) mess, jumble

barda

  1. third-person singular past historic of barder

From Paleo-Hispanic, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *wradyos (compare Welsh gwraidd, "root").[1]

barda f (plural bardas)

  1. hedge
    Synonyms: bardal, sebe
  2. stake for fencing; flagstone
    Synonyms: chanto, estaca, vargo
  3. haystack

From Arabic بَرْدَة (barda), ultimately from Middle Persian pltk' (pardag). Compare to Persian پرده (parde), Old Armenian պարտակ (partak), and Classical Syriac ܦܪܕܩܐ (pardəqā).

barda f (plural bardas)

  1. a piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb

  2. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “barda II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Borrowed from Middle English ward (with /w/ interpreted as lenited bh, and radical b derived from that by back-formation), from Old English weard (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”).

barda m (genitive singular **barda, nominative plural bardaí)

  1. guard, warden
  2. garrison
  3. guardianship, ward

Mutated forms of barda

radical lenition eclipsis
barda bharda mbarda

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

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

barda f (plural barde)

  1. a saddle without saddlebow
  2. bard
    Synonyms: armatura, bardatura, finimenti, gualdrappa

barda

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

bārda

  1. inflection of bārdus:
    1. nominative/vocative singular feminine
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

bārdā

  1. ablative singular feminine of bārdus

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bardā, from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ.

barda f

  1. axe
    • c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:
      Also an walde holto mit acusin hiewon duri iro an that selva, an acusi in an bardon nitherwirpon sia.
      They way they hew wood in the forest, so did they hew her door, and with a large and a smaller axe they knocked her down.

barda n

  1. inflection of bardo:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

barda m pers

  1. genitive/accusative singular of bard

Compare Spanish barda (“fence”).

barda f (plural bardas)

  1. hedge
    Synonym: sebe

barda (Tifinagh spelling ⴱⴰⵔⴷⴰ)

  1. feminine of bared

Compare Portuguese barda (“hedge”).

barda f (plural bardas)

  1. (Mexico) fence
    Synonyms: alambrada, alambrado, cerca, cerramiento, valla

Borrowed from Italian barda, from Arabic بَرْدَعَة (bardaʕa, “packsaddle”).

barda f (plural bardas)

  1. barding

barda

  1. locative singular of bar