kardas

See also: Kardas, Kardaś, and kardaş

Lithuanian

Kardas

Etymology

From a Slavic language, ultimately from an Iranian language, compare Ossetian кард (kard), Persian کارد (kârd, knife). Hungarian kard and Polish kord are also borrowed from Iranian.

Noun

kárdas m (plural kardaĩ) stress pattern 3

  1. sabre (sword with a curved blade)

Declension

See also

  • kalavijas (sword)
  • palašas (backsword; like a sabre, but straight)

References

  • Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “kárdas”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 221

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

kardas

  1. indefinite genitive singular of karda

Verb

kardas

  1. passive infinitive of karda
  2. present passive of karda
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