ard

Clipping of English Arabana with d as a placeholder.

ard

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Arabana.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Arabana terms

Borrowed from Norwegian ard (“plough”), from Old Norse arðr, from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom (“plough”), whence also Latin aratrum.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

ard (plural ards)

1. A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil. [20th c.]

• ard plough
• scratch plough

Contraction of all right, possibly influenced by regional Philadelphia English pronunciation.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹd/

ard (not comparable)

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, Philadelphia, slang) Contraction of all right.
2. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, Philadelphia, slang) Okay; average; nothing special.

ard (not comparable)

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, Philadelphia, slang) Contraction of all right.

ard

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, Philadelphia, slang) Contraction of all right.

• aight

• -dar, ADR, DAR, DRA, Dar, Dra, RAD, RDA, dar, rad, rad.

From Proto-Common Turkic *ārt.

• IPA^(key): [ɑrd]

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ard (definite accusative ardı, plural ardlar)

1. back, rear

   Synonyms: arxa, dal

   Antonyms: qabaq, ön

2. sequel, continuation; something which is continued

   Synonyms: davam, dal

• ardınca
• ardıcıl

From Old Norse arðr (“plough, ard”), from Proto-Germanic *arþrą, cognate with Swedish årder and Norwegian Bokmål ard (whence (English ard). The Germanic word is related to Latin arātrum (“plough”) and Ancient Greek ἄροτρον (árotron, “plough”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑˀd̥]

ard c (singular definite arden, plural indefinite arder)

1. (historical) plough, ard

• arad (nonstandard)
• árd (obsolete)

From Old Irish ard,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *ardwos (compare Welsh ardd) from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (compare Latin arduus).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɑːɾˠd̪ˠ/^[2][3]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /aːɾˠd̪ˠ/^[4]

ard (genitive singular masculine aird, genitive singular feminine airde, plural arda, comparative airde)

1. high, tall
2. loud
3. ambitious

• airde f (“height; elevation; altitude; level; volume, pitch”)
• ard- (“high; arch-, chief; excellent, noble; advanced”)

ard m (genitive singular aird, nominative plural arda)

1. height, hillock
2. top, high part
3. elevation (of land)
4. head (of sand, clay)
5. rise
6. ascent

• os ard

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ard”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “árd”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 38

From Old Irish ard, from Proto-Celtic *ardwos (compare Welsh ardd) from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰwós, from *h₃erdʰ- (compare Latin arduus).

• IPA^(key): /aːrd/, (also) /əːrd/

ard (plural ardey, comparative syrjey)

1. high
2. tall

ard m (genitive singular ard, plural ardjyn)

1. height, high place

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ard”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

ard

1. alternative form of ardu

• ar

Compare Persian آرد (ârd, “flour”), Avestan 𐬀𐬴𐬀 (aṣ̌a, “ground”) and Old Armenian աղամ (ałam).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːɾd/

ard m (Arabic spelling ئارد)

1. flour

   Synonym: arvan

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ard”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 11

From Proto-Celtic *ardwos (compare Welsh ardd) from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰwós, from *h₃erdʰ- (compare Latin arduus).

• IPA^(key): [ar͈d]

ard (equative ardithir, comparative ardu, superlative ardam)

1. high
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23^d23

     Cía thés hí loc bes ardu, ní ardu de; ní samlid són dúnni, air ⟨im⟩mi ardu-ni de tri dul isna lucu arda.

     Though he may go into a higher place, he is not the higher; this is not the case for us, for we are the higher through going into the high places.

ard n (genitive aird, nominative plural arda)

1. height

• Irish: ard
• Manx: ard
• Scottish Gaelic: àrd

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ard”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

ard

1. inflection of arde:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Cognate with Persian آرد (ârd).

ard

1. flour