dard

From Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdaɾt]

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dard m (plural dards)

1. dart (a small metal object used in the game of darts)

   Synonym: dardell

2. (poetic) arrow

   Synonym: flexta

3. tongue (of flame)

   Synonym: llança

• “dard”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Via Old French dart, from Frankish *daroth (compare Old High German tart, Old Norse darradr).

• IPA^(key): /daʁ/

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dard m (plural dards)

1. (military, obsolete) javelin, spear
2. sting (of an animal)
3. prickle, spine (of a plant)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     La robe d'Emma, trop longue, traînait un peu par le bas; de temps à autre, elle s'arrêtait pour la tirer, et alors délicatement, de ses doigts gantés, elle enlevait les herbes rudes avec les petits dards des chardons, pendant que Charles, les mains vides, attendait qu'elle eût fini.

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4. dart (a small metal object used in the game of darts)
5. (slang) cock, dick

• dards

• → Italian: dardo
• → Portuguese: dardo
• → Spanish: dardo

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

Inherited from Chagatai درد (drd), from Classical Persian درد (dard).

dard (plural dardlar)

1. pain, disease, sickness