Garda

See also: garda, gardă, gardā, and gárda

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Irish Garda.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑːdə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːdə

Proper noun

Garda (plural Gardaí or Gardas)

  1. The state police force of the Republic of Ireland.
  2. (The title of) an Irish policeman.
    Garda Michael Egan
  3. (in the plural) The police.
    • 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 115:
      Sure don't mind the Gardaí they say. They can't see in.

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Irish

Etymology

Capitalized form of garda.

Pronunciation

Noun

Garda m (genitive singular Garda, nominative plural Gardaí)

  1. A member of the Garda Síochána (the Irish police force).

Declension
Declension of Garda

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Garda Gardaí
Vocative a Gharda a Ghardaí
Genitive Garda Gardaí
Dative Garda Gardaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an Garda na Gardaí
Genitive an Gharda na nGardaí
Dative leis an nGarda

don Gharda

 leis na Gardaí

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Garda Gharda nGarda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡar.da/
  • Rhymes: -arda
  • Hyphenation: Gàr‧da

Proper noun

Garda f

  1. A town in Verona, Veneto, Italy, on the shore of Lake Garda

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