carn

See also: Carn, càrn, cârn, and čarn

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːn/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Etymology 1

Noun

carn (plural carns)

1. Archaic form of cairn.
   • 1807, George Chalmers, Caledonia:

     The Druid Carns are generally fenced round the bottom, by a circle of stones: these Carns had always on their summits, a large flat stone, on which the Druid fires were lighted […]

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin carō, carnem, from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-. Compare Occitan carn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkarn]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaɾn]

• Audio (Valencian):

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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, 2024
• “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.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːɾˠn̪ˠ/
• IPA^(key): /kaːɾˠn̪ˠ/

Noun

carn m (genitive singular cairn, nominative plural cairn)

1. heap, pile
2. cairn

Declension

Declension of carn (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative carn cairn vocative a chairn a charna genitive cairn carn dative carn cairn forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an carn na cairn genitive an chairn na gcarn dative leis an gcarn don charn leis na cairn

Derived terms

• carn consan

Mutation

Mutated forms of carn

radical	lenition	eclipsis
carn	charn	gcarn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “carn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “carn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “carn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 119
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn (Limousin)

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin carō, carnem.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

carn f (plural carns)

1. flesh
2. meat

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Old French

Noun

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

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

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Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn

Etymology

From Latin carō, carnem.

Noun

carn f

1. flesh

Descendants

• Occitan: carn

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Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin carnis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /karŋ/

Noun

carn m

1. flesh
2. meat

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Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin carō, carnem.

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

1. (Sursilvan) meat

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Welsh

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

Noun

carn m (plural carnau)

1. hoof
2. handle, haft (of knife)
3. hilt

Derived terms

• carnog (“hoofed”)
• carnol (“hoofed”)

Etymology 2

Akin to carreg.

Noun

carn f (plural carnau)

1. cairn, barrow

   Synonym: carnedd

Derived terms

• carnedd (“cairn”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of carn

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
carn	garn	ngharn	charn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.