sard

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

1. (obsolete) to seduce (a woman)

• sardius

• ADRs, RDS.A, SADR, Sadr, ards, dars, rads

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsart/

From Latin sard-, stem of sardus.

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)

1. Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)

• Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

sard m

1. Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus

sard m (plural sards)

1. white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)

• sarg

Related to Persian سرد‎ (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

sard

1. cold