Nard

Definition: Nard

Nard

Noun

1. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.

Date "nard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Nard

Synonym: spikenard (n). (additional references)

Nard (or nardshir) is a game of the Tables family that has been historically popular in Persia, Muslim countries and among Babylonian Jews.

The name nardshir comes from the Persian nard (Wooden block) and shir (lion) referring to the two type of pieces used in play. A common legend assoicates the game with the founder of the Sassanian dynasty, Ardshir.

The oldest known reference to the game is thought to be a passage in the Talmud, although some claim it refers to the Greek game Kubeia.

Another early reference is to be found in the Middle Persian romance of Chatrang-namak (written between the 7th and 9th centuries) which attributes the invention of the game to Buzurjmihr.

Many of the early arabic texts which refer to the game comment of the debate on the legallity and morality of playing the game. This debate was settled by the eight century when all four Muslim schools of juripudence declared the game to be Haram, however this did nothing to stop the growth in popularity of the game in the Muslim world and the game is still played today in many Arab countries.

By the 17th century the game was played in Georgia under the name of nardi, and by the 19th century it was being played by the Kalmucks (who called it narr) and the Herklots (who called it tukhta-e-nard).

Crosswords: Nard

English words defined with "nard": Musk root ♦ Nardine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Nard" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (nard, spikenard), Romanian (nard), Serbo-Croatian (spikenard), Welsh (nard, spikenard).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	Sudan	According to the NGO Sudanese Human Rights Group (SHRG), some of the following persons arrested in 2000 remained in detention at year's end: The more than 150 PNCP members who were detained after allegedly participating in demonstrations against the Government in September and October; a leading DUP member who was arrested in Khartoum in September; a lawyer who was arrested for political activities in Khartoum in August; leading members of the DUP and UMMA parties who were arrested and detained in June in Sennar City; five students in Omdurman who were detained in June; the more than 200 students arrested and detained at Juba University in June; six members of the Communist Party who were detained in May; the students arrested at Alnasr Technology College in May; Sid Ahmed Al-Hussein, deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who was detained on several occasions in April; Dr. Tobi Madot, Chairperson of the Democratic Forces Front (JAD) who was detained in March; a lawyer and leading member of the National Democratic Alliance to Restore Democracy (NARD) who was arrested and detained in March; and two students who were detained and beaten because of political activities in February. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Nard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nard" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

The following table summarizes the usage of "nard" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Nard	Last name	200	37,293
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "nard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الناردين سنبل الطيب. (various references)

Danish		citronellegraes (citronella grass, nard grass). (various references)

Dutch		citronellagras (citronella grass, nard grass). (various references)

Finnish		sitronellaheinä (citronella grass, nard grass). (various references)

French		nard. (various references)

German		Zitronellgras (citronella grass, nard grass). (various references)

Greek		νάρδοσ (spikenard, valerian). (various references)

Hungarian		nárdusolaj (spikenard), nárdus. (various references)

Italian		valeriana (valerian). (various references)

Pig Latin		ardnay.(various references)

Portuguese		ministrar narcótico a. (various references)

Romanian		nard. (various references)

Russian		нард (spikenard). (various references)

Spanish		nardo (spikenard). (various references)

Swedish		nardus. (various references)

Thai		ต้นไม้กลิ่นหอมแถบหิมาลายา. (various references)

Turkish		hint sümbülü (spikenard). (various references)

Ukranian		нард (spikenard). (various references)

Welsh		nard (spikenard). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Andropogon nardus, Cymbopogon nardus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nard": nardine, nards. (additional references)
	Words ending with "nard": canard, communard, gurnard, montagnard, reynard, spikenard. (additional references)
	Words containing "nard": canards, communards, gurnards, innards, monarda, monardas, montagnards, reynards, spikenards. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: andr, jard, Naar, nabd, Nadv, nafr, Najd, Namdi, Nand, Naqd, nar, narb, Narc, Nardo, nardoo, nardy, narf, narg, Nari, narj, narm, narn, narod, naroda, narodni, narodo, Narodu, narq, narr, nars, nart, naru, narx, Nasd, Naud, Nawdc, nawr, neard, nerdl, nerdo, ngaru, nidr, Niord, nird, Noord, norad, nord, nra, Nsad, nsr, nurd, nyar, nzru, vard. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nard" (pronounced nÄ"rd)
4	n Ä" r d	canard.
3	-Ä" r d	bard, barred, bombard, card, Chard, charred, disbarred, discard, disregard, Gabbard, guard, hard, jarred, lard, marred, regard, retard, scarred, shard, sparred, starred, sward, tarred, yard.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: darn, rand.
	Words within the letters "a-d-n-r"
	-1 letter: and, rad, ran.
	-2 letters: ad, an, ar, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-n-r"
	+1 letter: adorn, brand, darns, denar, dinar, drain, drank, drawn, grand, nadir, nards, radon, rands, randy, ranid, redan.
	+2 letters: adorns, aldrin, ardent, around, bander, brands, brandy, canard, candor, cedarn, craned, damner, dancer, dander, danger, danker, daring, darken, darned, darnel, darner, denari, denars, denary, dharna, dhurna, dinars, dragon, drains, durian, earned, endear, errand, gander, garden, gradin, grands, hadron, harden, inroad, inward, jordan, ladron, lander, lardon, lurdan, nacred, nadirs, narked, neared, onward, ordain, pander, pardon, qindar, radian, radons, rained, rancid, randan, random, ranged, ranids, ranked, ranted, redans, remand, repand, riband, roband, rodman, sander, snared, strand, tundra, undraw, unread, wander, warden, warned, yarned, zander.
	+3 letters: adjourn, adoring, adorned, adorner, adrenal, aground, aldrins, amender, andiron, android, aneared, aneroid, angered, antired, aproned, araneid, ardency, armband, asunder, banders, bandora, bandore, barding, bartend, birdman, blander, bodhran, bradoon, brained, branded, brander, branned, brigand, broaden, cairned, caldron, canards, candler, candors, candour, carding, cardoon, cranked, damners, dancers, danders, dandier, dandler, dangers, dangler, danseur, darings, darkens, darking, darling, darnels, darners, darning, darshan, darting, daunder, daunter, deanery, denarii, deraign, derange, detrain, dextran, dharnas, dhurnas, diatron, diurnal, donator, doorman, dormant, dragnet, dragons, dragoon, drained, drainer, draping, drawing, draying, drayman, draymen, dryland, duramen, durance, durians, endarch, endears, enraged, errands, farding, franked, gadroon, ganders, gardant, gardens, garland, gnarled, gnarred, goldarn, gormand, gradine, grading, gradins, grained, grandad, grandam, grandee, grander, grandly, grandma, grandpa, granted, grenade, groaned, gurnard, hadrons, handcar, handier, handler, hardens, hardpan, herdman, hydrant, inarmed, inboard, indraft, indrawn, innards, inroads, invader, inwards, iracund, jordans, knarred, kneader, ladrone, ladrons, landers, landler, laniard, lanyard, larding, lardons, lardoon, launder, laundry, learned, lurdane, lurdans, madrona, madrone, madrono, mandrel, mandril, mansard, manured, manward, maunder, meander, monarda, mordant, nadiral, nakeder, nardine, natured, niggard, nodular, norland, odorant, onboard, onwards, operand, ordains, ordinal, organdy, padrone, padroni, panders, pandoor, pandora, pandore, pandour, pandura, pardine, pardner, pardons, poniard, pranced, pranged, pranked, prawned, predawn, proband, qindars, radding, radians, radiant, raiding, ranched, randans, randier, randies, randoms, rankled, ravened, ravined, reading, readorn, recaned, redrawn, reedman, remands, renamed, reynard, ribands, ribband, rimland, robands, rodsman, rondeau, rotunda, sadiron, sandbar, sandbur, sanders, sandier, sardana, sardine, slander, snarled, stander, strands, sunward, tandoor, tankard, tanyard, tardyon, tornado, trading, trained, tranced, troland, tundras, unaired, unarmed, unbraid, undrape, undrawn, undraws, undular, unguard, unheard, unitard, unraked, unrated, unrazed, unready, untread, uranide, vanward, veranda, verdant, wanders, wardens, warding, yarding, yardman, yardmen, yearend, yearned, zanders.
	+4 letters: abradant, abrading, acaridan, acridine, acrodont, adherend, adherent, adhering, adjourns, adjuring, admiring, adorners, adorning, adrenals, advancer, aerodyne, airbound, alderman, aldermen, amenders, anchored, andirons, androgen, androids, aneroids, answered, antherid, antidora, antidrug, antlered, arachnid, araneids, arcadian, arcading, ardently, aridness, armbands, arointed, aroynted, arranged, arsenide, ascender, attender, attorned, awarding, bandager, banderol, banditry, bandoras, bandores, bankcard, bannered, bantered, barnyard, bartends, baudrons, bearding, bedarken, bilander, blinkard, boarding, boardman, boardmen, bodhrans, boneyard, boundary, braconid, bradding, bradoons, braiding, branched, branders, brandied, brandies, branding, brandish, brazened, breading, breadnut, brigands, broadens, browband, caldrons, calendar, calender, cancroid, candider, candlers, candours, cankered, cantered, carangid, cardamon, cardigan, cardinal, cardings, cardoons, careened, cartoned, cauldron, caverned, chaldron, chandler, chlordan, colander, condylar, conelrad, cordovan, cordwain, cradling, cranched, crankled, crannied, cravened, crayoned, credenda, credenza, crenated, cropland, crunodal, daintier, dairying, dairyman, dairymen, dakerhen, damneder, dampener, dandered, dandlers, dandriff, dandruff, danewort, dangered, danglers, danseurs, daringly, darkened, darkener, darkling, darkness, darlings, darndest, darneder, darnings, darshans, dartling, daunders, daunters, deaconry, deadener, deairing, dearness, debonair, decanter, decenary, demander, demeanor, denarius, denature, dentural, deraigns, deranged, deranges, derating, detainer, detrains, dextrans, diatrons, dicentra, dinosaur, dipteran, distrain, diurnals, dognaper, donators, doornail, dormancy, downward, drabbing, drabness, dracaena, draconic, drafting, dragging, dragline, dragnets, dragoman, dragomen, dragonet, dragoons, drainage, drainers, draining, dramming, dratting, drawdown, drawings, drawling, dreading, dreaming, drunkard, dungaree, duramens, durances, duration, dwarfing, dynatron, enamored, endanger, endarchy, endbrain, endeared, endeavor, endocarp, endosarc, endpaper, enframed, engraved, enlarged, ensnared, expander, expandor, farmhand, farmland, flancard, forehand, foreland, forzando, freedman, freehand, fricando, furnaced, gadarene, gadroons, gandered, gardened, gardener, gardenia, garlands, garnered, gendarme, glanders, goldarns, gormands, gourmand, gradient, gradines, graduand, grandads, grandame, grandams, granddad, granddam, grandees, grandest, grandeur, grandkid, grandmas, grandpas, grandsir, grandson, grenades, guardant, guardian, guarding, gurnards, gynandry, hadronic, hairband, handcars, handcart, handgrip, handlers, handover, handrail, handwork, handwrit, hangared, hangbird, hankered, hardened, hardener, hardline, hardness, hardnose, hardpans, harkened, harridan, herdsman, hoarding, honorand, hydranth, hydrants, inarched, inboards, indrafts, indurate, infrared, inlander, insnared, intraday, intrados, invaders, inwardly, ironclad, islander, jargoned, junkyard, kidnaper, kneaders, ladrones, landform, landgrab, landlers, landlord, landmark, landward, laniards, lanyards, lardoons, largando, launders, lavender, loanword, lurdanes, madronas, madrones, madronos, mandarin, mandator, mandrake, mandrels, mandrill, mandrils, mannered, mansards, manwards, margined, marinade, markdown, marooned, maunders, meanders, meridian, midbrain, midrange, misandry, misbrand, misdrawn, monandry, monardas, moonward, moorland, mordancy, mordants, mridanga, muraenid, narrated, narrowed, nattered, nearside, neatherd, niggards, nitrated, nonbrand, nondairy, nonhardy, nonrated, norlands, normande, odorants, oleander, ondogram, operands, ordained, ordainer, ordinals, ordinand, ordinary, ordinate, ordnance, organdie, orphaned, outdrank, outdrawn, overhand, overland, padrones, pandered, panderer, pandoors, pandoras, pandores, pandours, panduras, panfried, parading, paranoid, pardners, pardoned, pardoner, parented, parkland, parlando, pauldron, pedantry, pendular, pomander, poniards, prandial, predawns, probands, profaned, pronated, pyranoid, qindarka, quadrans, quadrant, quadroon, quandary, raddling, radiance, radiancy, radiants, radicand, radioing, radioman, radiomen, rainband, rainbird, raindrop, rancidly, rancored, randiest, randomly, ransomed, rationed, ratooned, rattened, rawboned, readding, readings, readorns, readying, reascend, reasoned, recanted, redating, redemand, redshank, reearned, regained, rehandle, rehanged, reharden, reinvade, reloaned, remained, remanded, remanned, renailed, rendzina, renegade, renegado, reordain, repandly, retained, reynards, rhodamin, ribbands, riddance, rigadoon, rigaudon, rimlands, romanced, rondeaux, rotundas, ruinated, sadirons, sandarac, sandbars, sandburr, sandburs, sandspur, sandworm, sandwort, saraband, sardanas, sardines, sardonic, sardonyx, serenade, serranid, slanders, solander, spandrel, spandril, sprained, squadron, squander, standard, standers, stinkard, strained, stranded, strander, sunwards, surnamed, swanherd, swarding, swordman, tamarind, tandoori, tandoors, tankards, tanyards, tardyons, teardown, tornadic, tornados, transude, treading, trinodal, trolands, truanted, turbaned, unafraid, unargued, unbarbed, unbarred, unbeared, unbraced, unbraids, unbraked, uncrated, undaring, underact, underage, underarm, underate, undereat, underjaw, underlap, underlay, underpay, underran, undersea, undertax, underway, undraped, undrapes, undreamt, unearned, unerased, unfeared, unframed, ungraced, ungraded, unguards, unhaired, unharmed, unitards, unloader, unmarked, unmarred, unpaired, unparted, unraised, unranked, unrepaid, unseared, unshared, unthread, untoward, untraced, untreads, unvaried, unwarmed, unwarned, unwarped, uplander, uranides, uredinia, urinated, vanguard, verandah, verandas, verdancy, vineyard, viridian, wandered, wanderer, wanderoo, wardenry, windward, wrangled, yardland, yardwand, yearends, zamindar, zemindar.
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