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See also: barda, bárda, and bārdā

Bārda

Kazas bārda

bārda f (4th declension)

(anatomy) beard (hair that grows on the cheeks and chins)

vaigu bārda‎ ― sideburns (lit. cheek beard)

sirma bārda‎ ― gray beard

kupla bārda‎ ― bushy beard

skūt bārdu‎ ― to shave a beard

audzēt bārdu‎ ― to grow (lit. raise) a beard

biezi, melni bārdas rugāji noseguši zodu un vaigus‎ ― thick, black beard stubbles covered (his) chin and cheeks
(of animals) beard (hair, hair-like formation on the lower jaw)

āža, kazas bārda‎ ― goat beard

bārdas zivs‎ ― beard(ed) fish

Declension of bārda (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	bārda	bārdas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	bārdu	bārdas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	bārdas	bārdu
dative (datīvs)	bārdai	bārdām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	bārdu	bārdām
locative (lokatīvs)	bārdā	bārdās
vocative (vokatīvs)	bārda	bārdas

↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “bārda”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bardā (with lengthening: *-àr- > -ā̀r-), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ ‎(“beard”), from the stem *bʰar- ‎(“projecting forward; tip, point; bristle, awn”), which is perhaps a form of *bʰer- ‎(“to cut, to grate, to split, to hit”). Cognates include Lithuanian barzdà (< *barzdā-, a parallel form of *bardā-, with an extra z perhaps because of d:zd phonetic variation), Old Prussian bordus, Proto-Slavic *borda (Old Church Slavonic брада ‎(brada), Russian борода ‎(borodá), Czech brada ‎(“beard, chin”), Polish broda ‎(“beard, chin”)), Proto-Germanic *barda- (Old High German bart, German Bart, Old English, English beard), Latin barba (< *farba).^[1]