guarda

guarda

See also: Guarda, guardá, and guardà

Catalan

Etymology

From guardar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɾ.də/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwar.də/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɾ.da/

Noun

guarda f (plural guardes)

1. protection

guarda m or f (plural guardes)

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

   Synonym: guardià

2. (printing) endpaper

Verb

guarda

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

Further reading

• “guarda” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “guarda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “guarda” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “guarda” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

guarda

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

Anagrams

• gradua

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• goarda (Gascony)

Pronunciation

• Audio (Gascon)

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Noun

guarda f (plural guardas)

1. (Gascony) guard, surveillance

References

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 75.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈɡwaɦ.dɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaʁ.dɐ/ [ˈɡwaɦ.dɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɾ.dɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaʁ.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɻ.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaɾ.dɐ/ [ˈɡwaɾ.ðɐ]

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwah.dɐ/

• Audio (Portugal)

  (file)

• Homophone: Guarda
• Hyphenation: guar‧da

Etymology 1

Deverbal from guardar.

Noun

guarda m or f by sense (plural guardas)

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

Descendants

• → Indonesian: garda

Noun

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)

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: goaada

Verb

guarda

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

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

guarda m or f (plural guardas)

1. guard, ward, keeper
2. endpaper
3. (Argentina) conductor (on public transportation)

Derived terms

• ángel de la guarda
• guarda de seguridad
• guardar

 

Verb

guarda

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

Further reading

• “guarda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014