ward

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , from , an extension of the stem (🇨🇬, ), from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, ; 🇨🇬 is a parallel form which came via Old French.

Noun

 * 1) Protection, defence.
 * 2) The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance
 * 3) Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
 * 4)  An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
 * 5)  A guarding or defensive motion or position.
 * 6)  Land tenure through military service.
 * 7)  A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
 * 8) A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
 * 9) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
 * 10) A section or subdivision of a prison.
 * 11) An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
 * 12)  A division of a forest.
 * 13)  A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
 * 14) A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
 * 15) A person under guardianship.
 * 16) A minor looked after by a guardian.
 * 17)  An underage orphan.
 * 18) An object used for guarding.
 * 19) The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
 * , II.1:
 * A man muſt thorowly ſound himſelfe, and dive into his heart, and there ſee by what wards or ſprings the motions ſtirre.
 * 1) * 1852–1854,, 
 * The lock is mademore secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
 * 1)  A division of a forest.
 * 2)  A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
 * 3) A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
 * 4) A person under guardianship.
 * 5) A minor looked after by a guardian.
 * 6)  An underage orphan.
 * 7) An object used for guarding.
 * 8) The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
 * , II.1:
 * A man muſt thorowly ſound himſelfe, and dive into his heart, and there ſee by what wards or ſprings the motions ſtirre.
 * 1) * 1852–1854,, 
 * The lock is mademore secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
 * , II.1:
 * A man muſt thorowly ſound himſelfe, and dive into his heart, and there ſee by what wards or ſprings the motions ſtirre.
 * 1) * 1852–1854,, 
 * The lock is mademore secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: стража
 * Manx: doltey
 * Old Irish: daltae
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: vartito
 * Finnish: holhokki, holhottava
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Irish: coimircí
 * Latin: pūpillus, pūpilla
 * Macedonian: штитеник
 * Maori: mataporenga
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: štićenik, štićenica
 * Spanish: entenado
 * Turkish: vasi edinilen
 * Vietnamese: trẻ tạm nuôi


 * Bulgarian: гард
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Macedonian: гард
 * Turkish: gard almak


 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: килия
 * Dutch: blok van een gevangenis, celblok
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: okrsek
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kvartalo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄμφοδον
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish:, barda cathrach
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: рео́н
 * Maori: wāri
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: valgkrets
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: جَنَاح
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Fiji Hindi: ward
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: pawas
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 와드
 * Macedonian: оддел
 * Norwegian: menighet
 * Papiamentu: bario
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: большо́й прихо́д,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: zbor
 * Slovene: oddelek
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * White Hmong: pawg ntseeg


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: (bìngfáng)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: potilassali, potilashuone, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish: aireagal,, barda ospidéil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: одделение
 * Malay: wad
 * Manx: ward
 * Maori: (rūma) mātūtū
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: bolesnička soba
 * Spanish:, pavellón
 * Swahili: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Bulgarian: подопечен
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: holhokki, holhottava
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese: 被後見人
 * Macedonian: штитеник
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: pupilo
 * Turkish: vasi edinilen,, , musi
 * Ukrainian: під опікою
 * Vietnamese: trẻ tạm nuôi


 * Dutch: inkeping in sleutelbaard
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: دیش
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 3
From, from , from , from , , from. .

Verb

 * 1)  To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
 * 2)  To defend, to protect.
 * 3)  To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches.
 * 4)  To be vigilant; to keep guard.
 * 5)  To act on the defensive with a weapon.
 * 1)  To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches.
 * 2)  To be vigilant; to keep guard.
 * 3)  To act on the defensive with a weapon.
 * 1)  To be vigilant; to keep guard.
 * 2)  To act on the defensive with a weapon.
 * 1)  To be vigilant; to keep guard.
 * 2)  To act on the defensive with a weapon.
 * 1)  To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:, , , , ,
 * Macedonian: варди, чува
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: trông nôm


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:, , , , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:, , , , ,
 * Latin: arceō
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Vietnamese:, , , ,


 * Bulgarian: нащрек съм
 * Finnish: pitää vahtia, olla vahdissa, pitää vartiota, olla vartiossa
 * Russian: быть начеку


 * Dutch:

Verb

 * , the
 * 1) * Genesis 1:3
 * "de"

- Und Gott sprach: »Es werde Licht!« Und es ward Licht.



Usage notes

 * This form was still common, though formal, until the first half of the 20th century. Since then it has become archaic and is now no longer part of normal standard German. It may still be met with in archaicizing poetic language, including popular stock phrases such as.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) rose, roses

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) ward