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pardal

pardal noun: a pard; a panther or leopard.

Noun

pardal (plural pardals)

  1. (obsolete) A pard; a panther or leopard.
    • Wyld beasts in yron yokes he would compell; / The spotted Panther, and the tusked Bore, / The Pardale swift, and the Tigre cruell […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of pardal

pluralpardals
alternative formpardale

Origin of pardal

From Latin pardalis, from Ancient Greek πάρδαλις (párdalis), from an unattested Old Iranian word; compare Persian پلنگ (palang), Pashto پړانګ (pṙâng).

Questions about pardal

What does pardal mean?
Pardal means a pard; a panther or leopard.
What part of speech is pardal?
Pardal is a noun.
What is the plural of pardal?
The plural of pardal is pardals.

Words near pardal in the dictionary

  1. parcs fermes
  2. parcs fermés
  3. pard
  4. pardah
  5. pardahs
  6. pardal
  7. pardale
  8. pardales
  9. pardaliscid
  10. pardaliscids
  11. pardalote

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