barð

From Old Norse barð.

• IPA^(key): /parð/
• Rhymes: -arð

barð n (genitive singular barðs, nominative plural börð)

1. brim (of a hat)
2. edge, ridge (especially of a hill)

   Synonyms: bakki, brún

3. prow

   Synonyms: stafn, stefni

From Proto-Germanic *bardą n, variant of *bardaz m (“beard”) (whence Old English beard, Old High German bart). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂. Compare English border, German Borte (“border”), also German Bart (“beard”), and bard in English halberd.

barð n (genitive barðs, plural bǫrð)

1. something with a distinctive edge or border

   Hyponym: hökubarð, kinnbarð, kjálkabarð, Svalbarð

   1. distinctive edge of something
      1. (nautical, poetic) fore and aft (of a ship); stem, prow, armed prow, beak (of a ship), stem; gallion; bow

         1200, Heimskringla. Nóregs Konunga Sogur / 174:

         Eiríkr jarl hafði barða einn geysimikinn, er hann var vanr at hafa í víking; þar var skegg á ofanverðu barðinu hváru tveggja; en niðr frá járnspǫng þykk ok svá breið sem barðit ok tók alt í sjá ofan.

         Erik Jarl had a very extensive “barde” (ship typ) that he was used to take on Viking voyages; there were beards (armor) fitted on top of the fore/aft both; and a relatively (to the beard armor) low-lying iron ram as high and wide as the prow was thick, and which took everything at sea above the surface.

         Hyponym: barðmikill

      2. (clothing) comb, helmet ridge
      3. (geography) ridge (mountain ridge)
      4. (construction) roof ridge; roof peak
      5. (weaponry, rare) axe

         Synonym: øx

      6. (anatomy, rare) beard

         1200, Skáldskaparmál: 85. Höfuð ok hlutar þess.:

         Skegg heitir barð, grön eða kanpar, er stendr á vörrum.

         Facial hair is called beard, mustache and whiskers, which stand on the lips.

         Synonym: (more common) skegg

         Hyponym: Hárbarðr, Langbarðr

   2. distinctive border; stripe, line; frame
      1. (geography) edge (of a cliff, a hill)

         Hyponyms: non; brekkubarð, hólbarð, holtbarð, túnbarð

      2. (geography) coast, beach

         Hyponym: Svalbarð

   3. relatively thin, flat object (with straight or rounded edges)
      1. (clothing) brim (of a hat or helmet)

         Hyponym: hattbarð, hjalmbarð

      2. (construction) frame; screen
      3. (physiology) baleen (tooth plates in the mouth of baleen whales)

         Hyponym: barðhvalr

      4. (zootomy) skate wing or winglike pectoral fin
      5. (fishes) skates and flatfish (flat disc-shaped fish)

         Hyponym: skötubarð

• barðhvalr
• brekkubarð
• Hárbarðr (“Odin”, literally “grey-beard”)
• hattbarð (“hat brim”)
• hjalmbarð (“helmet brim”)
• hólbarð
• holtbarð
• Langbarðr (“Langobard, Odin”, literally “long-beard”)
• skötubarð (“stingray”)
• túnbarð

• barða
• barði
  • járnbarði

• Danish: barde
• Icelandic: barð
• Norwegian Bokmål: bard m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bard, barde
• Swedish: bard, bård

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “barð”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 42; also available at the Internet Archive