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Yes. The word fard is a Scrabble US word. The word fard is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word fard is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

FARD,

3-letter words (6 found)

ARD,ARF,FAD,FAR,FRA,RAD,

2-letter words (4 found)

AD,AR,DA,FA,

You can make 11 words from fard according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of fard

fard afrd frad rfad arfd rafd fadr afdr fdar dfar adfr dafr frda rfda fdra dfra rdfa drfa ardf radf adrf darf rdaf draf

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word fard. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in fard.

Definitions and meaning of fard

fard

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɑːd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /fɑɹd/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English farden (“to apply cosmetics”) or Middle French farder, from Old French farder (“to make up or paint the face; to disguise; to represent in a false light”), from Frankish *farwidōn (“to colour, dye”), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną (“to colour”), from *farwō (“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“coloured; motley”).

The word is cognate with Icelandic farða, Latin pulcher (“beautiful”), Old High German farwjan (“to colour”) (modern German Farbe (“colour”)), Middle Low German varwe (“colour”) (Low German Farwe (“colour”)), Welsh erch (“dark brown”).

The noun derived is from French fard (“cosmetics, make-up”), from Old French fart (“cosmetics, make-up”) (masculine) (farde (feminine)); further etymology is uncertain, but a possible derivation is from Old High German gifarwit (“coloured, painted”), past participle of farwjan (“to colour”), from Proto-West Germanic *faru (related to the verb).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, archaic) To paint, as the cheeks or face.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To embellish or gloss over.
Translations

Noun

fard (countable and uncountable, plural fards)

  1. (archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
Alternative forms
  • faird (“16th c.”), Scotland
  • feard (“16th c.”)
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “religious duty”), from فَرَضَ (faraḍa, “to ordain, make obligatory, specify”).

Noun

fard (plural fards)

  1. (Islam) A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfill; a religious duty or obligation.
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Adjective

fard (not comparable)

  1. (Islam) Required as a matter of religious duty or obligation.
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

fard (plural fards)

  1. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Alternative form of ferd (“force of movement; impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset”).

References

Further reading

  • fard (Islam) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • RDFa, darf

French

Etymology

Inherited 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 *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
  2. deception

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: fard (noun)
  • → Turkish: far

Further reading

  • “fard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French farder (“to apply paint, makeup (to the face)”).

Noun

fard m (invariable)

  1. blusher, rouge

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic فَرْد (fard).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fart/

Adjective

fard (plural frad or frud)

  1. odd (not even)
  2. single

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fardi.

Noun

fard f

  1. traffic, journey

Declension


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: vart
    • → Danish: fart
    • → Swedish: fart
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: fart

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fard.

Noun

fard n (plural farduri)

  1. make-up

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org