Fard

Quick meaning: Fard is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic) To paint, as the cheeks or face.

Meaning

(transitive, archaic) To paint, as the cheeks or face.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, archaic) To embellish or gloss over.
2. (Islam) A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfill; a religious duty or obligation.
3. (Islam) Required as a matter of religious duty or obligation.
4. (Pakistan) A document attesting to the owner of a property.
5. (archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
6. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Alternative form of ferd (“force of movement; impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset”).

Example Sentences

The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel […]

[Y]e handle this matter too tenderly, nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath […]

[I]t is but bare, simple, plain, honest, homely truth, without welt, without guard. It will abide none but native colours. It scorneth to woo favour with farding and licking and counterfeisance. It hates either bought or borrowed beauty; and therefore, like some native face among the painted, looks coarse and rusty.

[Y]et, that your Majesty may not be abused, and that you may see that there is nothing but fard in that which may seem fairest of all their proceedings, I conceive myself obliged in duty and honour to undervalue all their malice, and truly to inform your Majesty in what you are, and may be, so much concerned. [Footnote 1: […] Fard here signifies the false daubing on a harlot's cheek.[…]]

Word Forms

• fards
• farding
• farded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fain, fond, farb, befurbelow, faine, faunch.

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