lard

lard

See also: Lard and lärd

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɑːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɑɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English lard, from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard (countable and uncountable, plural lards)

1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
2. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
3. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.
   • 2020, Sophie Ranald, Thank You, Next: A perfect, uplifting and funny romantic comedy

     My wonderful partner is fond of pointing out that he and I have done the Covid crisis on easy mode: we have no children, no caring responsibilities, […] we have a fabulous community of people at our local fitness studio to keep the lockdown lard at bay and the cats love joining us for afternoon naps.

Translations

fat from the abdomen of a pig

Alutiiq: saalaq Arabic: شَحْم‎ m (šaḥm) Belarusian: са́ла n (sála), сма́лец m (smáljec) Breton: bloneg (br) m Bulgarian: мас (bg) f (mas) Burmese: ဝက်ဆီ (my) (wakhci) Catalan: llard (ca), saïm (ca) m Cherokee: ᎪᎢ (goi) Cheyenne: amėške Chinese: Cantonese: 豬油, 猪油 (zyu1 jau4) Mandarin: 豬油／猪油 (zh) (zhūyóu) Classical Nahuatl: coyamechiyāhuacāyōtl Czech: sádlo (cs) n, vepřové sádlo n Dutch: reuzel (nl) m, smout (nl) n Esperanto: ŝmalco Estonian: pekk (et) sg Finnish: ihra (fi), laardi (fi), sianihra French: saindoux (fr) m Friulian: ardiel m Galician: touciño (gl) m, pingo (gl) m, pingue m, manteiga (gl) f, lardo (gl) m, enxulla f German: Schmalz (de) m Greek: λαρδί (el) n (lardí) Hungarian: szalonna (hu), sertészsír (hu), disznózsír (hu) Ido: saimo (io) Irish: blonag (ga) f Italian: strutto (it) Japanese: 豚脂 (とんし, tonshi), ラード (rādo) Khmer: ខ្លាញ់ជ្រូក (khlañ cruuk) Korean: 라드 (ko) (radeu) Latvian: speķis m Macedonian: маст f (mast), сало n (salo) Maori: hinu poaka Middle English: lard Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: akʼah Neapolitan: nzogna f Norman: molle graîsse f Northern Ohlone: saw̄én Norwegian: Bokmål: smult (no) n Nynorsk: smult n Persian: پیهِ خوک‎ (pih-e xuk) Plautdietsch: Schmolt n Polish: smalec (pl) m Portuguese: banha (pt) f Romanian: untură (ro) Russian: са́ло (ru) n (sálo), лярд (ru) m (ljard), сма́лец (ru) m (smálec) Sicilian: nzunza (scn) f, lardu (scn) m Spanish: manteca (es) Swedish: ister (sv) n Tagalog: tunis Thai: มันหมู (man-mǔu) Tibetan: གྲོད་ཚིལ (grod tshil) Tok Pisin: gris (tpi) Ukrainian: са́ло (uk) n (sálo), сма́лець m (smálecʹ) Venetian: lardo Vietnamese: mỡ lợn, mỡ heo Welsh: bloneg (cy) m

bacon — see bacon

Etymology 2

From Middle English larden, from Old French larder and Medieval Latin lārdō.

Verb

lard (third-person singular simple present lards, present participle larding, simple past and past participle larded)

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
2. To smear with fat or lard.
   • 1740, William Somervile, Hobbinol

     In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.

3. To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
4. To fatten; to enrich.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

     [The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.

   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
6. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v]:

     Larded with sweet flowers ; Which bewept to the grave

   • 1709, J[ohn] Dryden; J[ohn] Oldham, “(please specify the page)”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], OCLC 5001242:

     Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

Derived terms

• enlard
• interlard
• lardaceous
• lardass
• lardball
• lardboy
• lardbucket
• lardbutt
• larding needle
• lardless
• lardlike
• lardon
• lardoon
• lardy
• lardy cake
• leaf lard
• overlard
• tub of lard
• unlarded

 

Translations

stuff with bacon or pork

Bulgarian: шпиковам (špikovam) Danish: spække Dutch: larderen (nl) Finnish: täyttää pekonilla Italian: farcire con pancetta Spanish: mechar (es) Swedish: späcka (sv)

smear with fat or lard

Bulgarian: намазвам с мас (namazvam s mas) Finnish: silavoida Italian: spalmare con lardo Tok Pisin: grisim

garnish or strew

Dutch: larderen (nl) Finnish: koristella (fi) Hungarian: megtűzdel, spékel (hu), megspékel (hu), teletűzdel Italian: infiorare (it), infarcire (it), abbellire (it)

fatten; enrich

Finnish: lihottaa (fi) Italian: ingrassare (it)

grow fat

Bulgarian: надебелявам (bg) (nadebeljavam) Finnish: lihoa (fi)

mix or garnish as by way of improvement

Hungarian: tarkít, díszít (hu)

Anagrams

• ARLD, LDAR, LRAD, darl

---

French

Etymology

From Old French lard, from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laʁ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

lard m (plural lards)

1. bacon
2. lard

Derived terms

• rentrer dans le lard

Further reading

• “lard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

---

Middle English

Alternative forms

• larde

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lard, from Latin lāridum, lārdum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lard/, /laːrd/

Noun

lard (uncountable)

1. Bacon; fatty cured pork.
2. (by extension) Other fatty cured meat.
3. Lard, fat (usually of pigs)

Related terms

• larden
• lardener
• larder

Descendants

• English: lard
• Scots: lair, laird (obsolete)

References

• “lard, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

---

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m (oblique plural larz or lartz, nominative singular larz or lartz, nominative plural lard)

1. A cut of meat from a pig.
2. lard (fatty substance)

Descendants

• French: lard
• → Middle English: lard, larde
  • English: lard
  • Scots: lair, laird (obsolete)

---

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard n (plural larduri)

1. (regional) bacon
2. (regional) pig-fat

Declension

Declension of lard

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lard	lardul	(niște) larduri	lardurile
genitive/dative	(unui) lard	lardului	(unor) larduri	lardurilor
vocative	lardule		lardurilor

Synonyms

• slănină

Derived terms

• lărdos
• lărdar

---

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m

1. (Puter) bacon

Synonyms

• charnpüerch
• panzetta