bard

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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d
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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɑːd/
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• General-American: /bɑɹd/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• homophone: barred
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• CMU ARPABET: B AA1 R D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gwerH- Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- Proto-Indo-European *gwerH-dhh1o-der. Proto-Celtic *bardosder. Old Irish bard Scottish Gaelic bàrdder. English bard (15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gwerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).

From French barde. English since the late 15th century.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: бард (bard) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Bulgarian: бард (bard) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Catalan: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Chinese Cantonese: 吟遊詩人 /吟游诗人 (jam4 jau4 si1 jan4) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Chinese Mandarin: 詩人 /诗人 (shīrén) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Chinese Mandarin: 吟遊詩人 /吟游诗人 (yínyóu shīrén) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Czech: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Danish: barde — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Dutch: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Esperanto: bardo — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Finnish: runoilija — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Finnish: bardi — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• French: barde — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Galician: bardo — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Georgian: ბარდი (bardi) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• German: Barde — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Greek: βάρδος (várdos) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Hungarian: bárd — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Hungarian: dalnok — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Hungarian: énekmondó — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Irish: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Italian: aedo — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Italian: cantore — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Italian: trovatore — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Italian: poeta — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Italian: vate — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Japanese: 詩人 (shijin) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Japanese: 吟遊詩人 (gin'yū shijin) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Korean: 시인 (siin) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Korean: 음유시인 (eumyusiin) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Latgalian: dzīsminīks — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Latin: bardus — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Latvian: dziesminieks — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Latvian: dziesminiece — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Lithuanian: bardas — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Macedonian: бард (bard) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Norwegian Bokmål: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Old English: sċop — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Persian: سراینده (sorâyande) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Polish: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Portuguese: poeta — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Portuguese: bardo — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Russian: бард (bard) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Russian: а́втор-исполни́тель (ávtor-ispolnítelʹ) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Serbo-Croatian: ба̏рд — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Serbo-Croatian: bȁrd — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Slovak: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Slovene: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Spanish: bardo — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Sudovian: daininīkas — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Swahili: malenga — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Swedish: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Telugu: వైతాళికుడు (vaitāḷikuḍu) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Turkish: ozan — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Turkish: bard — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Ukrainian: бард (bard) — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Welsh: bardd — professional poet and singer — see also minstrel
• Arabic: بَردَعَه — fat bacon
• Chinese Mandarin: 熏肉片 (xūnròupiàn) — fat bacon
• Finnish: silava — fat bacon
• Galician: albarda — fat bacon
• German: Barde — fat bacon