different between karl vs retard

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse karl (“man”), from Proto-Norse ??????? (karilaz), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz, cognate with English churl, German Kerl, Dutch kerel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??l/, [?k?æ?l]

Noun

karl c (singular definite karlen, plural indefinite karle)

1. farmhand (a man working at at farm)
2. groom, ostler (a man looking after horses)
3. (informal) bloke, chap, guy

Inflection

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Norse ??????? (karilaz), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?artl/, [k?ärt??]
• IPA^(key): /k?atl/, [k?ät??]
• Rhymes: -artl
• Rhymes: -atl

Noun

karl m (genitive singular karls, nominative plural karlar)

1. man (male human)
2. husband
3. male of a species
4. (video games) a character (in a video game, or in a RPG)
5. (chess) a chess piece, a chessman

Declension

Synonyms

• (man): karlmaður m, maður m
• (husband): eiginmaður m, maður m
• (male of a species): karldýr n
• (a character): persóna f, tölvuleikapersóna f
• (chess piece): taflmaður m, maður m

Derived terms

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• kall

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ??????? (karilaz), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Compare Old English ceorl, Old High German karal, karl.

Noun

karl m

1. a man

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Icelandic: karl
• Faroese: kallur
• Norwegian: kall, kar (Bokmål), kar (Nynorsk)
• Old Swedish: karil?
  • Swedish: karl
• Elfdalian: kall
• Danish: karl
• Jamtish: kall, karr (< *karaz)
• Westrobothnian: kjall, kjar (< *karaz)
• ? Old Norse: Karl (given name)
  • Icelandic: Karl, Carl
  • Faroese: Karl
  • Norwegian: Karl, Carl
  • Old Swedish: Karl
    • Swedish: Karl, Carl
  • Old Danish: Karl
    • Danish: Karl, Carl
      • ? Greenlandic: Karl, Kaarali, Kaarale
  • ? Old Norse: Karli, Karle, Kalli (diminutive)
    • Icelandic: Karli
    • Norwegian: Karly, Karle, Kalle, Calle
    • Old Swedish: Karle, Kalle
      • Swedish: Karli, Karle, Carli, Carlie, Karly, Kalle, Calle
        • ? Estonian: Kalle
    • Old Danish: Karli
      • Danish: Karli, Karly, Kalle, Calle
        • ? Greenlandic: Kaali
    • ? Finnish: Karli, Karle, Kaarle, Kalle, Kale, Kali, Kalla, Kallu
      • ? Estonian: Kalle
      • ? Swedish: Kaarle
    • ? Sami: Gállá, Kálle
  • ? English: Karl, Carl
    • ? Cebuano: Karl, Carl
  • ? Finnish: Karl
  • ? Sami: Kárral
• ? Middle English: carl
  • Scots: carl, cairl, karl
  • English: carl

References

• karl in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish karil?, from Old Norse karl, from Proto-Norse ??????? (karilaz), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??r/
• Homophone: kar

Noun

karl c

1. man (male human)
2. husband
3. (male) member of a work force, employed to perform some particularly heavy or physically demanding job

Usage notes

Has connotations of being manly, and is as such somewhat frowned upon by certain feminists; but it also may have connotations of being able to perform a certain task. Compare the formulaic expression karl för sin ... (with some attribute), which denotes someone who is up to par with his role, and is able to perform at least by some minimal standards on his own. Here the role is usually something associated with the given attribute, though karl för sin hatt is associated with a more generic male role.

Declension

See also

• karl för sin hatt
• karlakarl

Anagrams

• klar

English

Etymology

From Middle English retarden, from Anglo-Norman or Latin, from Anglo-Norman retarder, from Latin retard?re (“to retard”), from re- + tardus (“slow”).

Pronunciation

Noun (delay sense), verb

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???t??(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun (offensive slang sense)

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??i?t??(?)d/

Noun

retard (plural retards)

1. Retardation; delay.

   Synonyms: delay, hold-up, retardation

2. (music) A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.
3. (offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.

   Synonyms: retarded, (offensive) tard, (disused medical term) imbecile, (legal term) mental deficient, (disused medical term) moron

4. (informal, offensive) A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool

   • 2007, Doug Green, No Wife No Kids No Plan (?ISBN):

     “That's 'cause your dog is a retard,” the large woman retorted. The pit bull must have sensed the insult because it got up on all fours and started barking at the woman. Not one to back down from an interspecies fight, the prison lady stood up […]

Usage notes

Through the euphemism treadmill, the term retard (which originated as a neutral substitute for the terms that had previously designated those with disabilities, namely idiot, imbecile, and moron) has come to be considered offensive; see Wikipedia for more. In a 2003 survey by the BBC, retard was voted the most offensive word relating to disability, followed by spastic.

Derived terms

• -tard

Translations

Verb

retard (third-person singular simple present retards, present participle retarding, simple past and past participle retarded)

1. (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress

   Synonyms: impede, hinder, hold up

2. (transitive) To put off; to postpone.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
4. (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.

Synonyms

• (keep delaying; continue to hinder): decelerate, hinder, slow, slow down; See also Thesaurus:hinder
• (postpone): postpone, put off; See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
• (slow to perform): reluctant
• (decelerate): decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up
• (stay back): hang back, stay back; See also Thesaurus:tarry

Antonyms

• (keep delaying; continue to hinder): accelerate, speed, speed up
• (postpone):
• (stay back): come forward

Derived terms

• retarded

Translations

References

• IQ Basics, including formerly used medical terms for people with very low IQs

Anagrams

• Darter, R-rated, Trader, darter, dartre, retrad, tarred, trader

Catalan

Etymology

From retardar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r??ta?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r??tart/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re?ta?t/

Noun

retard m (plural retards)

1. delay

   Synonyms: demora, endarreriment

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From the verb retarder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ta?/

Noun

retard m (plural retards)

1. delay

Derived terms

• avoir un train de retard
• en retard
• prendre du retard

Further reading

• “retard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tarder, trader

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French retard (“delay”), from the verb retarder (“to retard, slow down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??t??r/
• Rhymes: -??r
• Hyphenation: ret?ard
• Homophones: R, r

Noun

retard m (definite singular retarden, indefinite plural retarder, definite plural retardene)

1. (horology) side in a clockwork to which the adjustment indicator must be set to make the clock go slower

   Synonyms: R, r

Antonyms

• avance

References

• “retard” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• darret, radert, trader