garda

See also: Garda, gardă, gardā, and gárda

English

Noun

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”.

Anagrams

• Agard

Franco-Provençal

Verb

garda (Genevois)

1. Alternative form of gouardar (“to guard”)

References

• garda in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ.da/

• Audio:

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Verb

garda

1. third-person singular past historic of garder

Galician

Etymology

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

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “garda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “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 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

• 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

• garda depan

 

Further reading

• “garda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Alternative forms

• gárda (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɾˠd̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːɾˠd̪ˠə/

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

• constábla
• garda síochána
• péas
• póilín

Derived terms

• bangharda (“policewoman”)
• dul ar garda (“to mount guard”)
• Garda
• garda a sheasamh (“to stand guard, sentinel”)
• garda abhann (“river guard”)
• garda coille (“forest guard”)
• garda cosanta (“bodyguard”)
• garda cósta (“coastguard”)
• garda cuain (“harbour guard”)
• garda gradaim (“guard of honour”)
• 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”)
• gardáil (“guard”, verb)
• 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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “garda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “garda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 45

Latvian

Adjective

garda

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arda
• Syllabification: gar‧da
• Homophone: Garda

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