guarda

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

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Deverbal from guardar.

guarda f (plural guardes)

1. protection
2. (printing) endpaper

guarda m or f by sense (plural guardes)

1. guard (a person who protects or watches over something)

   Synonym: guardià

guarda

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

• “guarda”, 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
• “guarda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “guarda” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “guarda”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwar.da/
• Rhymes: -arda
• Hyphenation: guàr‧da

guarda

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

• gradua

• goarda (Gascony)

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guarda f (plural guardas)

1. (Gascony) guard, surveillance

• Guilhemjoan, Patric (2005), Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), Per Noste, →ISBN, page 75.

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• Hyphenation: guar‧da
• Homophone: Guarda

Deverbal from guardar.

guarda m or f by sense (plural guardas)

1. guard (person who protects or watches over something or someone)
2. (informal) police officer

• →? Gujarati: ગારદી (gārdī)
• →? Hindustani:

  Hindi: गारद (gārad)

  Urdu: گارَد (gārad)

• → Indonesian: garda
• → Javanese: ꦒꦂꦝꦸ (gardhu)
  • → Indonesian: gardu

guarda f (plural guardas)

1. guard (squad responsible for protecting something or someone)
2. flyleaf (blank page at the front or back of a book)

• Kadiwéu: goaada

guarda

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

• “guarda”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “guarda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɾda/ [ˈɡwaɾ.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾda
• Syllabification: guar‧da

Deverbal from guardar, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (“to guard”), from *warduz (“guard”), *wardaz, or directly from the latter. Compare Italian guardia, Portuguese guarda, French garde.

guarda m or f by sense (plural guardas)

1. guard, ward, keeper
2. (Paraguay, Rioplatense) ticket inspector

   Synonym: cobrador

guarda f (plural guardas)

1. endpaper

guarda

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

• “guarda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025