carp

See also: Carp, CARP, and -carp

English

common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹp/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)p

Etymology 1

From Middle English carpe, from Old French carpe, from Late Latin carpa, from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍀𐌰 (*karpa).

Noun

carp (plural carp or carps)

1. Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

Derived terms

• bighead carp
• common carp
• silver carp

Translations

Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae

• Abenaki: wôbhagas
• Afrikaans: karp
• Albanian: krap (sq)
• Arabic: شَبُّوط‎ m (šabbūṭ)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܫܒܘܛܐ‎ m (šabbūṭā)

• Armenian: ծածան (hy) (cacan)

  Middle Armenian: շապութ (šaputʿ)

• Asturian: carpa f
• Azerbaijani: karp (az), sazan (az), çəki balığı
• Belarusian: карп m (karp)
• Bulgarian: шара́н (bg) m (šarán)
• Catalan: carpa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鯉魚 (zh), 鲤鱼 (zh) (lǐyú)

• Czech: kapr (cs) m
• Danish: karpe c
• Dutch: karper (nl) m
• Esperanto: karpo (eo)
• Faroese: karpa f
• Finnish: karppi (fi)
• French: carpe (fr) f
• Galician: carpa f
• Georgian: კობრი (ḳobri), ჭანარი (č̣anari)
• German: Karpfen (de) m
• Greek: κυπρίνος (el) m (kyprínos)
• Hebrew: קרפיון‎ (he) m (qarpion)
• Hungarian: ponty (hu)
• Icelandic: vatnakarfi m
• Ido: karpo (io)
• Indonesian: ikan mas
• Irish: carbán m

• Italian: carpa (it) f, reina f
• Japanese: 鯉 (ja) (こい, koi), コイ (koi)
• Korean: 잉어 (ing-eo)
• Latin: carpa f
• Macedonian: крап m (krap)
• Maori: morihana
• Norman: carpe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karpe m

  Nynorsk: karpe f

• Persian: کپور‎ (fa) (kapur)
• Polish: karp (pl) m
• Portuguese: carpa (pt) f
• Romanian: crap (ro) m
• Russian: карп (ru) m (karp), (wild carp) саза́н (ru) m (sazán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шаран m, крап m

  Roman: šaran (sh) m, krap (sh) m

• Slovak: kapor (sk) m
• Slovene: krap (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: karpa f

• Spanish: carpa (es) f
• Swedish: karp (sv) c
• Tagalog: karpa
• Tamil: கெண்டைமீன் (ta) (keṇṭaimīṉ), சேல் (ta) (cēl)
• Turkish: sazan (tr)
• Ukrainian: ко́роп (uk) m (kórop)
• Vietnamese: cá chép (vi)
• Volapük: karip (vo)
• Yiddish: קאַרפּ‎ m (karp)

See also

• koi

Etymology 2

From Old Norse karpa (“to boast”), karp (“bragging”).

Verb

carp (third-person singular simple present carps, present participle carping, simple past and past participle carped)

1. To complain about a fault; to harp on.
2. (obsolete) To say; to tell.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To find fault with; to censure.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Translations

To complain about a fault

• Bulgarian: мърморя (bg) (mǎrmorja), опявам (bg) (opjavam)
• Finnish: sättiä (fi)
• French: maugréer (fr)

• Icelandic: finna að, gagnrýna (is), gagnrýna smugulega, vera með sparðatíning, kvarta (is)
• Polish: utyskiwać (pl)

References

Anagrams

• ACPR, APCR, CRAP, RCAP, crap, parc, prac

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Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾp/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkarp/

Noun

carp m (plural carps)

1. carpus

Related terms

• carpià

Further reading

• “carp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.