nardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /nɑɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /nɑːd/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)d

語源 1

From 中期英語 narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”). Doublet of nardus.

名詞

nard (countable and uncountable, plural nards)

1. A flowering plant of species Nardostachys jatamansi, in the valerian family, that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
2. A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[3], folio lxvj, recto:

     […] there cam a womã with an alablaſter boxe of oyntment / called narde / that was pure and coſtly / and ſhe brake the boxe ãd powred it on his heed.

3. American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.

同意語

• nardus (obsolete)
• (Nardostachys jatamansi): nardin, muskroot

派生語

• spikenard

参照

• nard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nardostachys jatamansi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “nard”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• nard, in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1987.

語源 2

Alteration of nuts (“testicles”) or nads (“gonads”).

名詞

nard (plural nards)

1. (US, 1980s, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

   The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!

   • 2006, Max Brooks, World War Z:

     I’m sure whoever was in charge must have been one of the last of the Fulda Fucktards, you know, those generals who spent their nard-drop years training to defend West Germany from Ivan.

同意語

• (testicles): ball, nut

語源 3

Borrowed from Persian نرد (nard)

別の表記

• narde

名詞

nard (uncountable)

1. A Persian game similar to backgammon.

アナグラム

• DNAR, DNRA, RAND, Rand, andr-, darn, rDNA, rand, rdna