malard
French
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editmalard m (plural malards)
References
edit- “malard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
editAlternative forms
edit- malarde, malerd, mallard, malerde, mathelard, maudelard, mauelarde, maulard, maularde, maulerd, mawdelard, mawdelarde, mawlard, mawlarde
Etymology
editBorrowed from Old French mallart, probably from masle (“male”) + -art, in which case equivalent to male (“male”) + -ard. Alternatively, the Old French term may be from Old High German Madelhart.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /maˈlard/, /mau̯ˈlard/, /mau̯dəˈlard/
- (with stress retraction) IPA(key): /ˈmalard/, /ˈmau̯lard/, /ˈmau̯dəlard/
Noun
editmalard (plural malardes)
- A mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), especially the male.
- The meat of a duck.
Descendants
edit- English: mallard
References
edit- “malard(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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- French terms with audio pronunciation
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- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms suffixed with -ard
- Middle English terms derived from Old High German
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Ducks
- enm:Meats