sard

• IPA^(key): /sɑː(ɹ)d/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorðan, borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

1. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).

   Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152:

     Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.

   • 1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes:

     Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.

   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:

     […] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]

   • 1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:

     Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.

• John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101

• ADRs, ARDS, RADs, RDAs, RDS.A, SADR, Sadr, ards, dars, rads

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈsaɾt]

Borrowed from Latin sardus.

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)

1. Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)

sard m (uncountable)

1. Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

• Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.

sard m (plural sards)

1. white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)

   Synonym: sarg

• “sard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sard”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Related to Persian سرد (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

sard

1. cold

Borrowed from French Sarde.

sard m or n (feminine singular sardă, masculine plural sarzi, feminine and neuter plural sarde)

1. Sardinian

sard m (plural sarzi)

1. Sardinian (someone from Sardinia)

Borrowed from Latin sardus. Doublet of sardin and sardell.

• IPA^(key): /sard/, /sɑːrd/

sard c

1. Sardinian (person from Sardinia)

• sardinare
• sardinier

• Sardinien
• sardinsk

• sard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sard in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sard in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)