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Fand vs Fard - What's the difference?

fand | fard |

As verbs the difference between fand and fard

is that fand is to seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour; make a shift while fard is to paint, as the face or cheeks.

As a proper noun Fand

is a fairy and the wife of Manannan mac Lir and later the lover of CĂșchulainn.

As a noun fard is

colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.

fand

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A fairy and the wife of Manannan mac Lir and later the lover of .
  • Anagrams

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    fard

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * ** faird * ** feard

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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 .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
  • * Zachary Boyd
  • The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
  • (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.

    Etymology 2

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

    Alternative forms

    * ** farde * ** ferde * (Scottish) ** faird

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Force of movement, impetus, rush, violent onset.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfill
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