barda

See also: Appendix:Variations of "barda"

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbar.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbaɾ.ða]

Noun

barda f (plural bardes)

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

Derived terms

• bardissa

Further reading

• “barda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.da/

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Noun

barda m (plural bardas)

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

Verb

barda

1. third-person singular past historic of barder

Further reading

• “barda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• brada