jardín

Meaning

1. (masculine) garden
2. (masculine) front yard (Ellipsis of jardín delantero.)
3. (masculine) backyard (Ellipsis of jardín trasero.)
4. (masculine) rabbit hole; a time-consuming, hard to abandon tangent or detour

Hyphenated as

jar‧dín

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/xaɾˈdin/

Etymology

Borrowed from French jardin, from Medieval Latin jardinus (“garden”), from Frankish *gardin, oblique case of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰos (“hedge, enclosure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“court, yard”). (compare also Portuguese jardim, Catalan jardí, Italian giardino), German Garten. Cognate with English garden.

Sentences

Un hombre tiene extrañas visiones cuando sale al jardín de su casa a medianoche .

A man has strange visions when he goes out to the garden of his house at midnight.

El jardín de niños es patrocinado públicamente pero dirigido por operadores privados .

The kindergarten is publicly sponsored but run by private operators.