carca
See also: çarça
Catalan
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editNoun
editcarca m or f by sense (plural carques)
- (derogatory) Carlist
- Synonym: carlí
- (by extension) reactionary, narrow-minded person
Adjective
editcarca m or f (masculine and feminine plural carques)
- reactionary
- Viuen en una presó de idees carques.
- They live in a prison of reactionary ideas.
Further reading
edit- “carca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “carca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “carca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Italian
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Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editcarca m or f (masculine and feminine plural carcas)
- (Spain, derogatory) narrow-minded, reactionary
- Synonym: reaccionario
- 2023 March 2, Estefanía Molina, “Usar condón se ha vuelto ‘carca’”, in El País[1]:
- Cómo viran las sociedades, que hoy ponerse el condón parece carca, restrictivo de los placeres carnales, cuando antaño daba libertad al salvar tantas vidas humildes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
editcarca m or f by sense (plural carcas)
- (Spain, derogatory) narrow-minded person, reactionary
- 2005 March 20, Karmentxu Marín, quoting Emilio Butragueño, “Un jovencito diría que soy un carca”, in El País:
- R. […] Yo creo que tener una familia unida es una bendición. La familia es clave.
P. ¿Se considera carca?
R. Ehhh… Tradicional. Son maneras de hablar. Un jovencito diría que soy un carca.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
edit- → Catalan: carca
See also
edit- carroza (informal)
- pollavieja (informal, neologism)
Further reading
edit- “carca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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