different between carp vs carn

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??p/
• Rhymes: -??(r)p

Etymology 1

From Middle English carpe, from Old French carpe, from Late Latin carpa, from Gothic *???????????????????? (*karpa).

Noun

carp (plural carp or carps)

1. Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• koi

Etymology 2

From Old Norse karpa (“to boast, brag”), karp (“bragging”); meaning later changed to "find fault with, carp at" due to influence of Latin carpo.

Verb

carp (third-person singular simple present carps, present participle carping, simple past and past participle carped)

1. To complain about a fault; to harp on.
2. (obsolete) To say; to tell.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To find fault with; to censure.
   • 27 December 1591, Edmund Spenser, letter to Sir Walter Raleigh

     and with your good countenance protect against the malice of evil mouths, which are always wide open to carp at and misconstrue my simple meaning

   • My honest homely Words were carp'd, and censur'd

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ACPR, APCR, CRAP, RCAP, crap, parc, prac

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (karpós, “wrist”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?p/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?karp/

Noun

carp m (plural carps)

1. carpus

Related terms

• carpià

Further reading

• “carp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Etymology

From French carpe

Noun

carp n (uncountable)

1. carpus

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n/

Etymology 1

Noun

carn (plural carns)

1. Archaic form of cairn.

See also

• Carn Brea

Etymology 2

Adapted from the vernacular pronunciation of c'mon, itself an informal variant of come on. The first uses of the term in its extended sense appear to have been amongst Australian rules football fans in Victoria, with the use later spreading to other states and sports.

Interjection

carn

1. (Australia, informal) Come on.
   • 2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.3, p.52:

     Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us.
     "Carn, kid. No guts, no glory."
     "I don't think so," I said.
     "It's the only way home now."

2. (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
   • 1956 September 10, "Carn the Magpies!", The Argus
   • 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected", The Sydney Morning Herald

     Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.

   • 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC", The Age

     Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn, they cry, carn … feebly at first."

   • 2011 October 11, "Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", Herald Sun

Anagrams

• Cran, NRCA, cRNA, cran, cran-, crna, narc

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin car?, carnem, from Proto-Italic *kar?, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?karn/

Noun

carn f (uncountable)

1. meat
2. flesh

Derived terms

• cansalada
• carnisser
• carnós
• carnut

Related terms

• carnal
• carnaval
• carnestoltes
• carnívor

Further reading

• “carn” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carn” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “carn” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carn” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /k????n??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ka???n??/

Noun

carn m (genitive singular cairn, nominative plural cairn)

1. heap, pile
2. cairn

Declension

Derived terms

• carn consan

Mutation

Further reading

• “carn” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “carn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “carn” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 119.
• "carn" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn (Limousin)

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

1. flesh
2. meat

Old French

Noun

carn f (oblique plural carns, nominative singular carn, nominative plural carns)

1. (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of char (flesh)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn

Etymology

From Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f

1. flesh

Descendants

• Catalan: carn
• Occitan: carn

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kar?/

Noun

carn m

1. flesh
2. meat

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) charn
• (Sutsilvan) tgarn
• (Surmiran) tgern

Etymology

From Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

1. (Sursilvan) meat

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Noun

carn f (plural carnau)

1. cairn, barrow

Derived terms

• carnedd (“cairn”)

Noun

carn m (plural carnau)

1. hoof
2. handle, haft

Derived terms

• carnol (“hoofed”)

Mutation