See narde in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "nard"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "nardus"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "narde"
},
"expansion": "Old French narde",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "nard"
},
"expansion": "Old English nard",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "la",
"3": "nardus"
},
"expansion": "Latin nardus",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "grc",
"3": "νάρδος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "phn"
},
"expansion": "Phoenician [Term?]",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sa",
"3": "नलद",
"tr": "nálada"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit नलद (nálada)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French narde and Old English nard, both from Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], ultimately from Sanskrit नलद (nálada).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nard",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "nardus",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "narde",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "narde (uncountable)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "spikenard"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "76 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "87 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "93 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "92 8",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Herbs",
"orig": "enm:Herbs",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "92 8",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Liquids",
"orig": "enm:Liquids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Nard (Nardostachys jatamansi) or a similar plant."
],
"id": "en-narde-enm-noun-yAC9Kr8b",
"links": [
[
"Nard",
"nard"
],
[
"Nardostachys jatamansi",
"Nardostachys jatamansi#Translingual"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "spikenard"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
47,
52
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
40,
44
]
],
"english": "Then Mary took a pound of valuable pure nard ointment, anointed Jesus's feet, and wiped them with her hair; the house was filled with the ointment's scent.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 12:3, folio 50, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "þerfoꝛ marie took a pound of oynement of trewe narde pꝛeciouſe / and anoyntide þe feet of iheſu .· ⁊ wipte hiſe feet wiþ hir heeris / and þe hous was fillid of þe ſauour of þe oynement",
"translation": "Then Mary took a pound of valuable pure nard ointment, anointed Jesus's feet, and wiped them with her hair; the house was filled with the ointment's scent.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nard (ointment derived from such a plant)"
],
"id": "en-narde-enm-noun-n584P3Ya",
"links": [
[
"nard",
"nard"
],
[
"ointment",
"ointment#English"
],
[
"derive",
"derive#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnard(ə)/"
}
],
"word": "narde"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Middle English terms derived from Latin",
"Middle English terms derived from Old English",
"Middle English terms derived from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Phoenician",
"Middle English terms derived from Sanskrit",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Herbs",
"enm:Liquids"
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "nard"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "nardus"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "narde"
},
"expansion": "Old French narde",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "nard"
},
"expansion": "Old English nard",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "la",
"3": "nardus"
},
"expansion": "Latin nardus",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "grc",
"3": "νάρδος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "phn"
},
"expansion": "Phoenician [Term?]",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sa",
"3": "नलद",
"tr": "nálada"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit नलद (nálada)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French narde and Old English nard, both from Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], ultimately from Sanskrit नलद (nálada).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nard",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "nardus",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "narde",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "narde (uncountable)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "spikenard"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Nard (Nardostachys jatamansi) or a similar plant."
],
"links": [
[
"Nard",
"nard"
],
[
"Nardostachys jatamansi",
"Nardostachys jatamansi#Translingual"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "spikenard"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
47,
52
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
40,
44
]
],
"english": "Then Mary took a pound of valuable pure nard ointment, anointed Jesus's feet, and wiped them with her hair; the house was filled with the ointment's scent.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 12:3, folio 50, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "þerfoꝛ marie took a pound of oynement of trewe narde pꝛeciouſe / and anoyntide þe feet of iheſu .· ⁊ wipte hiſe feet wiþ hir heeris / and þe hous was fillid of þe ſauour of þe oynement",
"translation": "Then Mary took a pound of valuable pure nard ointment, anointed Jesus's feet, and wiped them with her hair; the house was filled with the ointment's scent.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nard (ointment derived from such a plant)"
],
"links": [
[
"nard",
"nard"
],
[
"ointment",
"ointment#English"
],
[
"derive",
"derive#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnard(ə)/"
}
],
"word": "narde"
}
Download raw JSONL data for narde meaning in Middle English (3.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (e97c820 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.