Danish

Noun

gardin n (singular definite gardinet, plural indefinite gardiner)

1. curtain
2. drape, drapes
3. blind (covering for a window)

Inflection

Norman

Alternative forms

• gardîn (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old Northern French gardin, diminutive (compare Vulgar Latin hortus gardinus) or oblique form of *gard, from Old Norse garðr ‎(“yard, garden”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô, from *gardaz ‎(“yard”). Compare French jardin, from Old French jardin.

Noun

gardin m ‎(plural gardins)

1. (Guernsey) garden
   • 2006, Nellie Duquemin, ‘Au haut du gardin’, P'tites Lures Normanes, Cromwell Press 2006, page 38:

     Au haut des notre gardin y a en petit maisaon.

     At the top of our garden there is a privy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gardin m, f, n ‎(definite singular gardinen or gardina or gardinet, indefinite plural gardiner or gardin, definite plural gardinene or gardina)

1. a curtain

References

• “gardin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• jardin

Etymology

Of Germanic origin. See English garden.

Noun

gardin m ‎(oblique plural gardins, nominative singular gardins, nominative plural gardin)

1. (Picardy, Anglo-Norman) garden (large outdoor area with plants and trees)

Descendants

• English: garden (borrowed)
• French: jardin
• Norman: gardin/gardîn
• Old Portuguese: jardin (borrowed)
  • Galician: xardín
  • Portuguese: jardim

Swedish

Etymology

From German Gardine, from Early Modern Dutch gardine (contemporary Dutch gordijn), from French courtine, from Medieval Latin cōrtīna ‎(“curtain”), from Latin cohors.

Noun

gardin c

1. a curtain

Declension

Related terms

• gardinarrangemang
• gardinkappa
• gardinring
• gardinspringa
• gardinstång
• gardinuppsättning
• rullgardin
• tyllgardin

References

• gardin in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)