carrion

See also: Carrion

English

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French caroigne (see modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French charogne), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.ɹi.ən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

carrion (usually uncountable, plural carrions)

1. (chiefly uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.

   Vultures feed on carrion.

   • Edmund Spenser

     They did eat the dead carrions.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:

     He brought down with him to our haunted house a little cask of salt beef; for, he is always convinced that all salt beef not of his own pickling, is mere carrion […]

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119

     Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.

2. (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
   • Shakespeare

     Old feeble carrions.

Derived terms

• carrion beetle
• carrion crow

Translations

dead flesh; carcasses

• Arabic: جِيفة (ar) (jīfa)
• Afrikaans: karkas
• Albanian: kërmë (sq), shtrek (sq)
• Armenian: լեշ (hy) (leš), գեշ (hy) (geš)
• Bashkir: емтек (yemtek), үләкһә (üləkhə)
• Basque: haratustel
• Bulgarian: мърша (bg) f (mǎrša), леш (bg) m (leš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屍體／尸体 (zh) (shītǐ), 尸体 (zh) (shītǐ), 腐肉 (zh) (fǔròu) (slough)

• Czech: mršina f, zdechlina (cs) f
• Danish: ådsel (da) n, kadaver (da) n
• Dutch: kadaver (nl) n, aas (nl) n, kreng (nl) n, karkas (nl) n
• Finnish: haaska (fi), raato (fi)
• French: charogne (fr) f
• Georgian: ლეში (leši)
• German: Aas (de) n, Kadaver (de) m
• Greek: θνησιμαίο (el) n (thnisimaío), κουφάρι (el) n (koufári), ψοφίμι (el) n (psofími)

  Ancient: κενέβρεια n pl (kenébreia)

• Hebrew: נְבֵלָה (he) f (nevelá), פֶּגֶר (he) m (péger)
• Hungarian: döghús (hu)
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• Irish: ablach m
• Italian: carogna (it) f
• Japanese: 骸 (ja) (mukuro), 死肉 (しにく, shiniku), 腐肉 (ふにく, funiku)
• Latin: cadaver n, morticīnus f
• Latvian: maita f
• Maori: pera
• Norwegian: åtsel n, kadaver n
• Polish: padlina (pl) f
• Portuguese: carniça (pt) f
• Russian: па́даль (ru) f (pádalʹ), мертвечи́на (ru) f (mertvečína), дохля́тина (ru) f (doxljátina) (colloquial)
• Slovak: zdochlina f
• Slovene: mrhovina (sl) f
• Spanish: carroña (es) f
• Swedish: as (sv) n, kadaver (sv) n
• Turkish: leş (tr)
• Ukrainian: па́даль f (pádalʹ), па́дло n (pádlo), мертве́ччина f (mertvéččyna), мертвечи́на f (mertvečýna), дохля́тина f (doxljátyna) (colloquial)
• Volapük: nimafun

contemptible or worthless person

• German: Aas (de) n
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