zarda

Hindi ज़र्दा (zardā); Urdu زردہ.

zarda (uncountable)

1. The flavoured tobacco used in paan.
   • 2015, Priyamvada Sharma, Pratima Murthy, Parul Shivhare, “Nicotine quantity and packaging disclosure in smoked and smokeless tobacco products in India”, in Indian Journal of Pharmacology‎, volume 47, →DOI:

     Hookah samples collected from urban “hookah bars” from Bengaluru were found to contain nicotine content of 0.8 mg/g, while, in zarda, average nicotine was 20.35 mg/g.

2. A sweet South Asian dish of boiled rice with milk, sugar and spices.

• zerde

• Zadar

Borrowed from Arabic جَرَذ (jaraḏ). Compare Italian giarda.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzar.da/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ärd̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zar.da/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ärd̪ä]

zarda f (genitive zardae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin, very rare) spavin
   • 1300s, Pietro De' Crescenzi, “Dē aegritūdinibus equōrum et cūrā eōrum [On the illnesses of horses, and cure thereof]”, Liber nōnus - Dē omnibus animālibus quae in rūre nūtriuntur [Ninth book - On all the animals which are fed in the farm], in Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII [The 12 books of agricultural advantages]‎ (overall work in Medieval Latin); republished (manuscript), 1471, page 308:

     [equꝰ] qn̄ꝫ nascit̃ cum zardis

     [[equus] quandōque nāscitur cum zardīs]

     [the horse] is sometimes born with spavins

First-declension noun.

• zarda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)