berde

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Persian پرده (parda, parde), via Ottoman Turkish perde?)”)

berde (plural berdes)

1. A stringed instrument (chordophone) of Bosnian origin, a large guitar-shaped instrument that is played upright, using a plectrum.

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

• 2013. The Tamburitza Tradition: From the Balkans to the American Midwest. Richard March. Pg. 80.

• Breed, brede, breed, rebed

Borrowed from Spanish verde, from Old Spanish verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbɛɾ.d̪e]
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Syllabification: ber‧de

bérde

1. green (color/colour)
2. (idiomatic) obscene; dirty

   berdeng hambae ― obscene language

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

berde (feminine berda, masculine plural berdes, feminine plural berdas)

1. superseded spelling of verde

Borrowed from Spanish verde, ultimately from Latin viridis.

• IPA^(key): /berde/ [ber.ð̞e]

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• Rhymes: -erde, -e
• Hyphenation: ber‧de

berde (comparative berdeago, superlative berdeen, excessive berdeegi)

1. green (color/colour)
2. green (environmentally friendly)
3. unripe
4. (figurative) young
5. (figurative) obscene, dirty, blue

berde inan or anim

1. (inanimate) green (the colour of growing foliage)
2. (animate) green (politics)

• “berde”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “berde”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Borrowed from Spanish verde.

• Hyphenation: ber‧de
• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbiɾ̪.d̪e]

berde

1. green (color/colour)
   • 1985 — Surban, Max, Nabali ang Krismas Tri, Nabali ang Krismas Tri [Performed by Max Surban]

     […] / Taas ang among krismas tri / Tumoy sungko sa kisame / Daghan ang mga suga / May pula, asul ug berde / […]

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berde

1. green (color/colour)

Borrowed from Spanish verde.

• Hyphenation: ber‧de
• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.d̪e]

bérde

1. green (color/colour)

Borrowed from Spanish verde.

bérde

1. green (color/colour)

bérde

1. greenish

Unclear; multiple possibilities exist:

• From Old English byrde, ġebyrde (“noble, rich”), from Proto-West Germanic *burdī/*gaburdī, from Proto-Germanic *burdijaz/*gaburdijaz.
• From Old English byrd, ġebyrd (“birth”), from Proto-West Germanic *burþi/*gaburþi, from Proto-Germanic *burþiz/*gaburþiz; in that case, equivalent to beren +‎ -th.
• From an Old English *byrde (“embroideress”), from byrdan (“to embroider”) +‎ -e (feminine agentive suffix).

In any case, influenced formally and semantically by bride (“bride”).

• beerde, birde, byrde
• buirde, burdde, burde, buyrde, byurde (West Midland)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːrd(ə)/, /ˈbeːrd(ə)/, /ˈbɛːrd(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbyːrd(ə)/ (West Midland)

berde (plural berdes or (early West Midland) burden) (Early Middle English or poetic, especially West Midland)

1. A noblewoman; a lady or maiden; especially the Virgin Mary.
2. A young man, especially one of noble blood or Jesus Christ.

• English: burd
• Middle Scots: bird, bourd, burd
  • Scots: bird

• “bī̆rde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 July 2018.

berde

1. alternative form of brerd

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞ɨ]
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Syllabification: ber‧de

berde m or f (masculine and feminine plural berdes)

1. green (color/colour)

berde m (plural berdes)

1. green (color/colour)

• Moisés, Pires (2004), “berde”, in Pequeno vocabulário Mirandês-Português [Small Mirandese-Portuguese Vocabulary], 2nd edition, Miranda do Douro: Câmara Municipal de Miranda do Douro, published 2019, →ISBN, page 125.
• Ferreira, Amadeu; Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona (2003–2022), “berde”, in Dicionário de Mirandês-Português [Mirandese-Portuguese Dictionary].

Borrowed from Spanish verde (“green”), from Old Spanish verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Compare Kapampangan berdi.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbɛɾ.d̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Syllabification: ber‧de

berde (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. green (color/colour)

   Synonyms: lungti, lungtian

berde (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. green (color/colour)

   Synonyms: lungti, lungtian

2. (figurative, colloquial) lewd; indecent; risqué; blue; green

   Synonyms: malaswa, mahalay, bastos