garda

garda (plural gardai or gardaí)

1. (Ireland, often in the plural) Alternative letter-case form of Garda.
   • 2025 October 22, Jim O'Callaghan, quotee, “Second night of unrest in Dublin as protesters target asylum hotel”, in The Guardian‎^[1], sourced from P. A. Media, →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 December 2025:

     He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system.

garda (plural gardai or gardaí)

1. (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Garda.
   • 2004, Ken Bruen, The Guards‎^[2], →ISBN, page 38:

     A garda was ambling towards us.

   • 2023 August 15, Ken Foy, “Garda trainee sent home from Templemore over tattoo says he has been treated ‘very unfairly‘”, in Irish Independent, page 6:

     A trainee garda who was sent home from Templemore Garda College after he was told the tattoo on his hand id not comply with the force's dress and uniform code said he has been “treated very unfairly”.

• Agard

garda (Genevois)

1. alternative form of gouardar (“to guard”)

• garda in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ.da/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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garda

1. third-person singular past historic of garder

From Old Galician-Portuguese guarda, probably a back-formation from gardar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaɾðɐ]

garda f (plural gardas)

1. guard, watchman, escort
2. (collective, military) guard, squad
3. (collective) police
4. (uncountable) guard; watch
5. (uncountable) protection; keep; custody

• A Guarda

garda

1. inflection of gardar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “garda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “garda”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “garda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

garda

1. romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰

From Portuguese guarda, guardar, from Old Galician-Portuguese guardar, from Medieval Latin wardō, from Frankish *wardōn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (“to guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Doublet of gardu.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡarda/ [ˈɡar.da]
• Rhymes: -arda
• Syllabification: gar‧da

garda (plural garda-garda)

1. guard, person who or thing that protects something

   Synonym: pengawal

• “garda”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• gárda (obsolete)

From Old French guarde, from guarder (“to guard”), from Frankish *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɾˠd̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːɾˠd̪ˠə/

garda m (genitive singular garda, nominative plural gardaí)

1. police officer, patrolman
2. escort
3. guard

• constábla
• garda síochána
• péas
• póilín

• → English: garda

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “garda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “garda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 45

garda

1. inflection of gards:
   1. genitive masculine singular
   2. nominative feminine singular

Borrowed from French garde.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arda
• Syllabification: gar‧da
• Homophone: Garda

garda f

1. crossguard, quillon

   Synonym: jelec

2. (boxing) guard (way in which boxers position their hands in their stance)

• “garda”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “garda”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡarda]

garda f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gardă

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ɡâːrda/
• Hyphenation: gar‧da

gȃrda f (Cyrillic spelling га̑рда)

1. guard (of a sovereign or an army commander)

garda

1. locative of gar