بارد

Derived from the active participle of بَرَدَ‎ (barada, “to be cold, to freeze”), from the root ب ر د‎ (b-r-d).

• IPA^(key): /baː.rid/

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بَارِد • (bārid) (feminine بَارِدَة‎ (bārida), masculine plural بَارِدُونَ‎ (bāridūna), feminine plural بَارِدَات‎ (bāridāt), elative أَبْرَد‎ (ʔabrad))

1. cold, cooling
2. dull, slow
3. poor (wit, poetry)
4. incontestable (right)
5. safely placed (money)

• Maltese: biered
• Moroccan Arabic: بارد‎ (bāred)
• → Swahili: baridi

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “بارد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic بَارِد‎ (bārid).

• IPA^(key): /baː.rid/

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بارد • (bārid) (feminine باردة‎ (bārda), common plural براد‎ (brād), masculine plural باردين‎ (bārdīn), feminine plural باردات‎ (bārdāt), elative أبرد‎ (ʔabrad) or برد‎ (brad))

1. cold
2. dull

From Arabic بَارِد‎ (bārid). Equivalent to the active participle of برد‎ (barad, “to become cold”) .

• IPA^(key): /baː.red/, [ˈbæː.rɪd]

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بارد • (bāred) (feminine باردة‎ (bārde), common plural باردين‎ (bārdīn), elative أبرد‎ (ʔabrad))

1. cold

   ‏الطقس بارد.‎‎ ― iṭ-ṭaʔs bāred ― The weather is cold.

2. unemotional, cold-hearted
3. sluggish

   Synonym: خامل‎ (ḵāmel)

• When describing the weather with الدنيا‎ (id-dinya), the noun برد‎ (bard) is used instead.