Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Color; paint, as applied to the complexion.
- To paint, as the cheeks: as, “the farded fop,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Paint used on the face.
- transitive verb obsolete To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Colour orpaint used on the face;makeup ,war-paint . - verb transitive To
paint , as the face or cheeks.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each of these sheets was called a fard (single leaf).
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Every group of people, such as a nation, has an independent obligation, known as fard kifaya, to do the same thing.
unknown title 2009
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Every person has an obligation known as fard 'ain to seek truth and practice it in the form of justice.
unknown title 2009
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It's not illegal to eat or smoke or "fard" while driving.
KOMO News - News 2010
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The fatwa ruled that to expel foreign aggressors from Islamic lands was a fard ayn, or a compulsory duty for all Muslims.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The fatwa ruled that to expel foreign aggressors from Islamic lands was a fard ayn, or a compulsory duty for all Muslims.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The fatwa ruled that to expel foreign aggressors from Islamic lands was a fard ayn, or a compulsory duty for all Muslims.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The fatwa ruled that to expel foreign aggressors from Islamic lands was a fard ayn, or a compulsory duty for all Muslims.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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True, the vast majority of Islamic scholars do not believe it is fard, or compulsory.
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One the dispute over whether the niqab is fard religiously required or not has been going on among Islamic scholars since the earliest centuries of Islam.
Why Québéc Cannot and Should not Ban the Niqab : Law is Cool 2010
john commented on the word fard
Islamic term meaning religious duty.
October 7, 2007
ambyellen commented on the word fard
also, v. to paint the face with cosmetics, so as to hide blemishes.
May 31, 2009
bilby commented on the word fard
Who farded?
May 29, 2016
Gammerstang commented on the word fard
(verb/noun) - (1) To paint the face. --Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859 (2) To paint the face with fard, white paint; to hide defects and improve the complexion; 1400s-1600s. Figuratively, to embellish or gloss over anything. Paint, especially white paint, for the face. Zacharie Boyd's Zion's Flowers (c. 1620) wrote, "I have farded half my face with fard most rare." --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901
January 27, 2018