barð

From Old Norse barð.

• IPA^(key): /parð/
• Rhymes: -arð

barð n (genitive singular barðs, nominative plural börð)

1. brim (of a hat)
2. edge, ridge (especially of a hill)

   Synonyms: bakki, brún

3. prow

   Synonyms: stafn, stefni

From Proto-Germanic *bardą n, variant of *bardaz m (“beard”) (whence Old English beard, Old High German bart). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂.

barð n (genitive barðs, plural bǫrð)

1. brim (of a hat or helmet)
2. (nautical) an armed prow, beak (of a ship)
3. (rare) beard

   Synonym: (more common) skegg

• Hárbarðr (“Odin”, literally “grey-beard”)
• Langbarðr (“Langobard, Odin”, literally “long-beard”)

• Icelandic: barð
• Norwegian Bokmål: bard m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bard, barde
• Swedish: bard, bård

• barð in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.