English

Alternative forms

• (16^th century, Scottish):
  • faird
• (16^th century):
  • feard

Noun

fard ‎(uncountable)

1. (archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
   • 1791, John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall

     Painted with French fard.

Translations

Verb

fard ‎(third-person singular simple present fards, present participle farding, simple past and past participle farded)

1. (transitive, archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
   • Zachary Boyd

     The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.

2. (transitive, archaic) To gloss over or embellish.
   • 1606, William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall

     Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.

   • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord

     Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.

Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology at ferd. Closely cognate to Scots faird.

Alternative forms

• (15^th century):
  • farde
• (16^th century):
  • ferde
• (Scottish):
  • faird

Noun

fard ‎(plural fards)

1. (obsolete) Force of movement, impetus, rush, violent onset.

Etymology 3

From Arabic فرض.

Noun

fard ‎(plural fards)

1. (Islam) A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfill

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French fard ‎(“make-up, cosmetics”), from farder ‎(“to apply make-up, use cosmetics”), from Old Frankish *farwidōn ‎(“to dye, colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną ‎(“to colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwō ‎(“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- ‎(“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old High German farwjan ‎(“to colour”), Middle Low German varwe ‎(“colour”). See more above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faʁ/

Noun

fard m ‎(plural fards)

1. make-up

Derived terms

• farder

Italian

Noun

fard m ‎(invariable)

1. blusher, rouge

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic فَرْد ‎(fard)

Adjective

fard

1. odd (not even)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fardiz.

Noun

fard f

1. traffic, journey