garant

From Middle French garant, from Old French garant, garand, guarant, a borrowing from Frankish *warand, from Frankish *warjan (“to authorise, warrant”). Cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁɑ̃/

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garant

1. present participle of garer

garant m (plural garants)

1. guarantor
2. surety

• se porter garant

• garantir

• → Czech: garant
• → Danish: garant
• → German: Garant
• → Macedonian: гарант (garant)
• → Norwegian: garant
• → Portuguese: garante
• → Romanian: garant
• → Russian: гарант (garant)
• → Serbo-Croatian: garant / гарант
• → Russian: гарант (garant)

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

• garaunt, garent, garrant, garraunt, guarant, guarent, warant

From Frankish *warjan.

garant m (oblique plural garanz or garantz, nominative singular garanz or garantz, nominative plural garant)

1. guaranty; assurance
2. witness
3. protector
4. (law) warrantor
5. safety
6. protection (from harm, etc.)
7. permission
8. permission slip; written authorization

• Anglo-Norman: warant, warand, warrant
  • → Middle English: warant
    • English: warrant
      • → Italian: warrant
    • Scots: warrand
• Middle French: garant
  • French: garant (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: garant, garrant, garraunt
• → Italian: garante
• → Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: garant
  • Occitan: garant
• → Spanish: garante
  • →? English: guarantee

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (garant)
• garant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

From French garant.

garant m (plural garanți)

1. guarantor

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎrant/
• Hyphenation: ga‧rant

gàrant m (Cyrillic spelling га̀рант)

1. guarantor
2. (colloquial, as an interjection) sure, guaranteed

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡarant/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːrant/, /ˈɡarant/

garant

1. Soft mutation of carant.