garant

From Middle French garant, from Old French garant, garand, guarant, a borrowing from Frankish *warand, from Frankish *warjan (“to authorise, warrant”). Cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁɑ̃/

garant

1. present participle of garer

garant m (plural garants)

1. guarantor
2. surety

• garantir

• “garant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

garant m (oblique plural garanz or garantz, nominative singular garanz or garantz, nominative plural garant)

1. guaranty; assurance
2. witness
3. protector
4. (law) warrantor
5. safety
6. protection (from harm, etc.)
7. permission
8. permission slip; written authorization

• French: garant

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (garant)
• garant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎrant/
• Hyphenation: ga‧rant

gàrant m (Cyrillic spelling га̀рант)

1. guarantor
2. (colloquial, as an interjection) sure, guaranteed

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡarant/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːrant/, /ˈɡarant/

garant

1. Soft mutation of carant.