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fard¹
- /fɑːd/ UK
- /fɑɹd/ US
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
The verb is derived from Middle English farden (“to apply cosmetics”) or Middle French farder, from Old French farder (“to make up or paint the face; to disguise; to represent in a false light”), from Frankish *farwidōn (“to colour, dye”), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną (“to colour”), from *farwō (“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“coloured; motley”).
The word is cognate with Icelandic farða, Latin pulcher (“beautiful”), Old High German farwjan (“to colour”) (modern German Farbe (“colour”)), Middle Low German varwe (“colour”) (Low German Farwe (“colour”)), Welsh erch (“dark brown”).
The noun is derived from French fard (“cosmetics, make-up”), from Old French fart (“cosmetics, make-up”) (masculine) (farde (feminine)); further etymology is uncertain, but a possible derivation is from Old High German gifarwit (“coloured, painted”), past participle of farwjan (“to colour”), from Proto-West Germanic *faru (related to the verb).
verb fards · farding · farded
- To paint, as the cheeks or face. The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel […]
- To embellish or gloss over. For looke how far fellonie may glory in her fetters, so far may we in our funerals wherewith we but feard death. For as some Gentiles, where gold is vernaculous and plentifull, their catiues thogh therewith enchained, yet remaines catiues: so to vs, thogh our graue were of enamelled gold, yet it is
noun fards · faird · Scotland · feard
- Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint. And theſe [including Edward Gibbon] preſent us with the ſkeleton of hiſtory, not merely clothed with muſcles, animated with life, and bearing the bloom of health upon its cheek; but, inſtead of carrying a higher fluſh of health upon its cheek, and ſhewing a brighter beam of life in its eyes, rubbed
fard²
- /fɑːd/ UK
- /fɑɹd/ US
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “religious duty”), from فَرَضَ (faraḍa, “to ordain, make obligatory, specify”).
noun fards
- A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfill; a religious duty or obligation. It is suggested that the child pray only the fardrak'ats at this stage. He can keep adding the sunnah rak'ats from the time he has all the fards completed—that is, from his seventh birthday—so that by age ten he has the entire salat, fards and sunnahs, complete.
adjective
- Required as a matter of religious duty or obligation. The second fundamental of Islam is "to perform the ritual prayer (namâz, salât) [five times a day in accordance with its conditions and fards] when the time for prayer comes." It is fard for every Muslim to perform salât five times every day after each time of salât starts and to know that he or she
fard³
- /fɑːd/ UK
- /fɑɹd/ US
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d
noun fards
- Alternative form of ferd (“force of movement; impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset”). And ſone as he perſavys quhar that went / Forganyſt him, cumand throu greſy ſward, / Hys derreſt ſon Ene with hasty fard, / Baith his handys joyfull furthſtracht he than;[…]
fard⁴
- /fɑːd/ UK
- /fɑɹd/ US
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d
noun fards
- A document attesting to the owner of a property.
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noun commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfil
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