beard

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɪəd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [bɪːd]
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• General-American: /bɪɹd/
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• General-American: /biɚd/
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• obsolete: /bɜː(ɹ)d/
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• homophone: beared (cheer–chair merger)
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)d
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• CMU ARPABET: B IH1 R D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Originally a nickname for someone with a beard.

PIE word *bhardhéh2 From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bhardheh2, *bhh2erdheh2. Cognates Cognate with Scots beird (“beard”), Yola bearde (“beard”), North Frisian biard (“beard”), Saterland Frisian Boart (“beard”), West Frisian burd (“beard”), Bavarian Bårt (“beard”), Dutch baard (“beard”), German Bart (“beard”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Baart (“beard”), Vilamovian biöt (“beard”), Yiddish באָרד (bord, “beard”), Icelandic barð (“brim; edge, ridge”), Norwegian Bokmål bart (“moustache”), Norwegian Nynorsk bard, barde (“edge, rim”), bart (“moustache”), Crimean Gothic bars (“beard”); also Latin barba (“beard”), Latvian bārda (“beard”), Lithuanian barzda (“beard”), Belarusian барада́ (baradá, “beard”), Bulgarian and Macedonian брада́ (bradá, “beard; chin”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene brada (“beard”), Russian and Ukrainian борода́ (borodá, “beard”), Serbo-Croatian бра́да, bráda (“beard”). Doublet of barb.

343 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abaza: жакӏьа (žakjʼa) — facial hair
• Abkhaz: ажакьа (aẑakjʼa) — facial hair
• Afrikaans: baard — facial hair
• Aghul: муджур (mudžur) — facial hair
• Akhvakh: мижелӏу (mižekllu) — facial hair
• Albanian: mjekër — facial hair
• Amharic: ፂም (ṣ́im) — facial hair
• Amharic: ጢም (ṭim) — facial hair
• Andi: мигажу (migažu) — facial hair
• Chungli Ao: bangsemo — facial hair
• Arabic: لِحْيَة (liḥya) — facial hair
• Arabic: ذَقْن (ḏaqn) — facial hair
• Arabic: دقن (daʔn) — facial hair
• Arabic: لحية (liḥya) — facial hair
• Arabic: لحية (laḥya) — facial hair
• Arabic: دَقِن (daʔin) — facial hair
• Aragonese: barba — facial hair
• Aramaic: ܕܩܢܐ (diqnā) — facial hair
• Aramaic: דקנא (diqnā) — facial hair
• Archi: мочӏор (močʼor) — facial hair
• Argobba: ጢም — facial hair
• Armenian: մորուք (morukʻ) — facial hair
• Aromanian: barbã — facial hair
• Eastern Arrernte: arralte — facial hair
• Assamese: দাড়ি (dari) — facial hair
• Asturian: barba — facial hair
• Australian Kriol: wiska — facial hair
• Avar: мегеж (megež) — facial hair
• Azerbaijani: saqqal — facial hair
• Bagvalal: нижат (nižat) — facial hair
• Bashkir: һаҡал (haqal) — facial hair
• Basque: bizar — facial hair
• Belarusian: барада́ (baradá) — facial hair
• Bengali: দাড়ি (daṛi) — facial hair
• Bezhta: баб (bab) — facial hair
• Bhojpuri: 𑂠𑂰𑂜𑂲 (dāṛhī) — facial hair
• Breton: baro — facial hair
• Budukh: мичӏер (mičʼer) — facial hair
• Bulgarian: брада́ (bradá) — facial hair
• Burmese: မုတ်ဆိတ် (muthcit) — facial hair
• Buryat: һахал (haxal) — facial hair
• Carpathian Rusyn: бо́рода (bóroda) — facial hair
• Catalan: barba — facial hair
• Cebuano: bungot — facial hair
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵔⵜ (tamart) — facial hair
• Chechen: маж (maž) — facial hair
• Cherokee: ᎠᎭᏄᎸᏒ (ahanulvsv) — facial hair
• Chichewa: ndevu — facial hair
• Chinese Cantonese: 鬍鬚 /胡须 (wu4 sou1) — facial hair
• Chinese: хўзы (hwzɨ) — facial hair
• Eastern Min Chinese: 喙鬚 /喙须 (chói-chiŭ / ché̤ṳ-siĕu) — facial hair
• Chinese: 喙鬚 /喙须 (chhùi-chhiu) — facial hair
• Chinese Mandarin: 鬍子 /胡子 (húzi) — facial hair
• Chinese Mandarin: 鬍鬚 /胡须 (húxū) — facial hair
• Wu Chinese: 牙鬚 /牙须 (6nga-su) — facial hair
• Chuvash: сухал (suh̬al) — facial hair
• East Circassian: жьакӏэ (źakʼɛ) — facial hair
• West Circassian: жакӏэ (žakʼɛ) — facial hair
• West Circassian: жакӏьэ (žakjʼɛ) — facial hair
• Ngazidja Comorian: nɗevu — facial hair
• Coptic: ⲙⲟⲣⲧ (mort) — facial hair
• Cornish: barv — facial hair
• Corsican: barba — facial hair
• Creek: cokhesse — facial hair
• Crimean Tatar: saqal — facial hair
• Czech: brada — facial hair
• Czech: vous — facial hair
• Dalmatian: buarba — facial hair
• Danish: skæg — facial hair
• Dargwa: муцӏур (muc̣ur) — facial hair
• Dhivehi: ތުންބުޅި (tun̊buḷi) — facial hair
• Dutch: baard — facial hair
• Dzongkha: རྒྱབོ (rgyabo) — facial hair
• Egyptian: x-b-z:w-t:D3 (ḫbzwt) — facial hair
• Esperanto: barbo — facial hair
• Estonian: habe — facial hair
• Even: гургат (gurgat) — facial hair
• Evenki: гургакта (gurgakta) — facial hair
• Faroese: skegg — facial hair
• Fijian: kumi — facial hair
• Finnish: parta — facial hair
• Franco-Provençal: bârba — facial hair
• French: barbe — facial hair
• Saterland Frisian: Boart — facial hair
• West-Frisian: burd — facial hair
• Friulian: barbe — facial hair
• Galician: barba — facial hair
• Ge'ez: ጽሕም (ṣəḥm) — facial hair
• Georgian: წვერი (c̣veri) — facial hair
• Georgian: წვერ-ულვაში (c̣ver-ulvaši) — facial hair
• German: Bart — facial hair
• Godoberi: мигяжу — facial hair
• Godoberi: мигажу — facial hair
• Greek: γένι (géni) — facial hair
• Greek: γενειάδα (geneiáda) — facial hair
• Ancient Greek: πώγων (pṓgōn) — facial hair
• Ancient Greek: γενειάς (geneiás) — facial hair
• Greenlandic: umik — facial hair
• Gujarati: દાઢી (dāḍhī) — facial hair
• Gujarati: દાઢી (dāḍhī) — facial hair
• Haitian Creole: bab — facial hair
• Hausa: gemu — facial hair
• Hawaiian: ʻumiʻumi — facial hair
• Hebrew: זָקָן (zakán) — facial hair
• Hiligaynon: bungot — facial hair
• Hindi: दाढ़ी (dāṛhī) — facial hair
• Hindi: दाढी (dāḍhī) — facial hair
• Hinukh: мошолкӏа (mošolk’a) — facial hair
• Hinukh: бошолкӏа (bošolk’a) — facial hair
• White Hmong: hwj txwv — facial hair
• Hungarian: szakáll — facial hair
• Hunsrik: Baart — facial hair
• Icelandic: skegg — facial hair
• Ido: barbo — facial hair
• Indonesian: janggut — facial hair
• Indonesian: jenggot — facial hair
• Ingush: модж (modž) — facial hair
• Interlingua: barba — facial hair
• Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᒃ (omik) — facial hair
• Irish: féasóg — facial hair
• Irish: meigeall — facial hair
• Irish: ulcha — facial hair
• Middle Irish: fésóc — facial hair
• Istro-Romanian: borbĕ — facial hair
• Italian: barba — facial hair
• Japanese: 顎鬚 (agohige) — facial hair
• Japanese: 顎髭 (agohige) — facial hair
• Japanese: 鬚 (hige) — facial hair
• Javanese: jénggot — facial hair
• Jeju: 시염 (siyeom) — facial hair
• Jeju: 쉬염 (swiyeom) — facial hair
• Kalmyk: сахл (saxl) — facial hair
• Kannada: ಗಡ್ಡ (gaḍḍa) — facial hair
• Karata: мигаж (migaž) — facial hair
• Kashmiri: دٲر (dạ̄r) — facial hair
• Kashmiri: ریش (rēś) — facial hair
• Kashubian: barda — facial hair
• Kashubian: broda — facial hair
• Kaurna: marlta — facial hair
• Kazakh: сақал (saqal) — facial hair
• Khmer: ពុកចង្កា (puk cɑngkaa) — facial hair
• Kituba: mandefu — facial hair
• Komi-Permyak: тош (toš) — facial hair
• Korean: 수염 (suyeom) — facial hair
• Korean: 턱수염 (teoksuyeom) — facial hair
• Central Kurdish: ڕیش (rîş) — facial hair
• Northern Kurdish: rih — facial hair
• Northern Kurdish: rî — facial hair
• Kyrgyz: сакал (sakal) — facial hair
• Lak: чӏири (čʼiri) — facial hair
• Lao: ເຄົາ (khao) — facial hair
• Lao: ມັດສຸ (mat su) — facial hair
• Lao: ຫນວດຄາງ (nūat khāng) — facial hair
• Latgalian: buorzda — facial hair
• Latin: barba — facial hair
• Latvian: bārda — facial hair
• Laz: ფიმფილი (pimpili) — facial hair
• Lezgi: ччуру (č̄uru) — facial hair
• Lingala: ndefu — facial hair
• Lingala: mandefu — facial hair
• Lingala: mandéfu — facial hair
• Lithuanian: barzda — facial hair
• Lombard: barba — facial hair
• Low German: Boord — facial hair
• Lü: ᦷᦐᧆᧈ (ṅod1) — facial hair
• Luxembourgish: Baart — facial hair
• Macedonian: брада (brada) — facial hair
• Magahi: 𑂠𑂰𑂜𑂲 (daṛhi) — facial hair
• Magahi: 𑂠𑂰𑂜 (daṛh) — facial hair
• Maguindanao: baka — facial hair
• Malagasy: volombava — facial hair
• Malay: janggut — facial hair
• Malayalam: താടി (tāṭi) — facial hair
• Maltese: daqna — facial hair
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᠯᡠ (salu) — facial hair
• Manx: faasaag — facial hair
• Māori: kuau — facial hair
• Māori: pāhau — facial hair
• Māori: paihau — facial hair
• Māori: kumikumi — facial hair
• Maranao: gomot — facial hair
• Marathi: दाढी (dāḍhī) — facial hair
• Massachusett: weeshittoon — facial hair
• Mauritian Creole: labarb — facial hair
• Minangkabau: jangguit — facial hair
• Mingrelian: ბჟაკე (bžaḳe) — facial hair
• Mingrelian: ფრიმული (primuli) — facial hair
• Mon: သော်ပါင်မုင် — facial hair
• Mongolian: сахал (saxal) — facial hair
• Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠬᠠᠯ (saqal) — facial hair
• Classical Nahuatl: tēntzontli — facial hair
• Nanai: bogakta — facial hair
• Nanai: gogakta — facial hair
• Navajo: dághá — facial hair
• Nepali: दाह्री (dāhrī) — facial hair
• Nivkh: ыф (əf) — facial hair
• Norman: barbe — facial hair
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjegg — facial hair
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skjegg — facial hair
• Occitan: barba — facial hair
• Odia: ଦାଢ଼ି (dāṛhi) — facial hair
• Okinawan: しちゃふぃじ (sichafiji) — facial hair
• Church Slavic: брада (brada) — facial hair
• Church Slavic: ⰱⱃⰰⰴⰰ (brada) — facial hair
• Old East Slavic: борода (boroda) — facial hair
• Old East Slavic: брада (brada) — facial hair
• Old English: beard — facial hair
• Old Norse: skegg — facial hair
• Old Norse: barð — facial hair
• Old Prussian: bordus — facial hair
• Oromo: areeda — facial hair
• Ossetian: боцъо (boc’o) — facial hair
• Ossetian: зачъе (zaḱ’e) — facial hair
• Pali: massu — facial hair
• Pannonian Rusyn: брада (brada) — facial hair
• Pashto: ږيره (ģíra) — facial hair
• Pashto: بمبل (bambál) — facial hair
• Pennsylvania German: Baart — facial hair
• Pennsylvania German: Backebaart — facial hair
• Dari: رِیش (rīš) — facial hair
• Iranian Persian: ریش (riš) — facial hair
• Iranian Persian: بَلْمِه (balme) — facial hair
• Piedmontese: barba — facial hair
• Pitjantjatjara: ngaṉkurpa — facial hair
• Plautdietsch: Boat — facial hair
• Polabian: brödă — facial hair
• Polabian: vǫ̇s — facial hair
• Polish: broda — facial hair
• Portuguese: barba — facial hair
• Punjabi: ਦਾੜ੍ਹੀ (dāṛhī) — facial hair
• Rohingya: dari — facial hair
• Romanian: barbă — facial hair
• Romansh: barba — facial hair
• Russian: борода́ (borodá) — facial hair
• Russian: брада́ (bradá) — facial hair
• Rutul: мичӏри (mič̣ri) — facial hair
• Akkala Sami: сеам (s’eam) — facial hair
• Inari-Sami: siämu — facial hair
• Kildin-Sami: ся̄м (seam) — facial hair
• Northern Sami: skávžá — facial hair
• Northern Sami: seamu — facial hair
• Northern Sami: njávvi — facial hair
• Skolt-Sami: seäm — facial hair
• Southern Sami: skaavtjoe — facial hair
• Sanskrit: दाढिका (dāḍhikā) — facial hair
• Sanskrit: मासुरी (māsurī) — facial hair
• Sanskrit: श्मश्रु (śmaśru) — facial hair
• Santali: ᱥᱳᱫᱨᱳ (sodro) — facial hair
• Sardinian: balba — facial hair
• Sardinian: balva — facial hair
• Sardinian: barba — facial hair
• Scottish Gaelic: feusag — facial hair
• Serbo-Croatian: бра́да — facial hair
• Serbo-Croatian: bráda — facial hair
• Sherpa: རྒྱའུ (rgya'u) — facial hair
• Sicilian: barba — facial hair
• Sicilian: varba — facial hair
• Sicilian: varva — facial hair
• Sinhalese: යටි රැවුල (yaṭi ræwula) — facial hair
• Slovak: brada — facial hair
• Slovene: brada — facial hair
• Somali: gadh — facial hair
• Lower Sorbian: broda — facial hair
• Upper Sorbian: broda — facial hair
• Southern Altai: сагал (sagal) — facial hair
• Spanish: barba — facial hair
• Sranan Tongo: barba — facial hair
• Sudovian: bardas — facial hair
• Svan: უ̂ა̈რე (ûäre) — facial hair
• Svan: ვა̈̄რე (vǟre) — facial hair
• Ter Sami: ся̄ман (seaman) — facial hair
• Swahili: ndevu — facial hair
• Swedish: skägg — facial hair
• Tabasaran: муччери (muč̄eri) — facial hair
• Tagalog: balbas — facial hair
• Tagalog: gumi — facial hair
• Tagalog: yangot — facial hair
• Tagalog: bungot — facial hair
• Tajik: риш (riš) — facial hair
• Tamil: தாடி (tāṭi) — facial hair
• Tarifit: tamart — facial hair
• Tatar: сакал (saqal) — facial hair
• Telugu: గడ్డం (gaḍḍaṁ) — facial hair
• Tetum: timir — facial hair
• Thai: เครา (krao) — facial hair
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་བོ (rgya bo) — facial hair
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་མོ (rgya mo) — facial hair
• Tibetan: རྒྱ (rgya) — facial hair
• Tibetan: ཨོག་ཚོམ (og tshom) — facial hair
• Tibetan: ཞལ་ཚོམ (zhal tshom) — facial hair
• Tigrinya: ጭሕሚ (č̣əḥmi) — facial hair
• Tindi: мижату — facial hair
• Tsakhur: мучӏру (muč̣ru) — facial hair
• Tsez: мешолга (mešolga) — facial hair
• Turkish: sakal — facial hair
• Ottoman Turkish: صقال (sakal) — facial hair
• Turkmen: sakgal — facial hair
• Tuvan: сегел сал (segel sal) — facial hair
• Tuvan: сал (sal) — facial hair
• Ubykh: žakʼjá — facial hair
• Udi: кӏаджух (ḳaǯuꭓ) — facial hair
• Udi: кӏаьжух (ḳäžuꭓ) — facial hair
• Udmurt: туш (tuš) — facial hair
• Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎖𐎐 (dqn) — facial hair
• Ukrainian: борода́ (borodá) — facial hair
• Urdu: داڑْھی (dāṛhī) — facial hair
• Uyghur: ساقال (saqal) — facial hair
• Uzbek: soqol — facial hair
• Venetan: barba — facial hair
• Vietnamese: râu — facial hair
• Vilamovian: biöt — facial hair
• Volapük: balib — facial hair
• Walloon: båbe — facial hair
• Warlpiri: jangarnka — facial hair
• Welsh: barf — facial hair
• Woiwurrung: yarra ngurnduk — facial hair
• Woiwurrung: ngarrin — facial hair
• Woiwurrung: ngarringurnduk — facial hair
• Wolof: sikkim — facial hair
• Xhosa: indevu — facial hair
• Yaghnobi: рӣша (riša) — facial hair
• Yakut: бытык (bïtïk) — facial hair
• Yámana: yašu — facial hair
• Yiddish: באָרד (bord) — facial hair
• Yoruba: irùngbọ̀n — facial hair
• Zazaki: erdiş (diq) — facial hair
• Zhuang: mumh — facial hair
• Zulu: intshebe — facial hair
• German: Alibifreundin — opposite-sex companion of a gay person
• Italian: appuntamento di copertura — opposite-sex companion of a gay person
• Russian: ча́йка (čájka) — opposite-sex companion of a gay person
• Russian: борода́ (borodá) — opposite-sex companion of a gay person
• Spanish: jotera — opposite-sex companion of a gay person
• Spanish: pantalla — opposite-sex companion of a gay person
• Spanish: tapadera — opposite-sex companion of a gay person
• Swahili: ndevu — opposite-sex companion of a gay person
• Catalan: barbar — to grow hair on the chin and jaw
• Spanish: barbar — to grow hair on the chin and jaw
• Romanian: înfrunta — bravely oppose
• Romanian: sfida — bravely oppose
• Russian: смело выступа́ть против (smelo vystupátʹ protiv) — bravely oppose
• Spanish: provocar — bravely oppose
• Spanish: mortificar — bravely oppose