carn

See also: Carn, càrn, cârn, and čarn

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːn/

• Audio (AU):

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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 […]

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

Pronunciation

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

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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Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn (Limousin)

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin carō, carnem.

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

• Catalan: carn
• Occitan: carn

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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

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

Noun

carn m or f (plural carnau)

1. (feminine) cairn, barrow
2. (masculine) hoof
3. (masculine) handle, haft

Derived terms

• carnedd (“cairn”)
• carnol (“hoofed”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
carn	garn	ngharn	charn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.