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(ɹ)p

Etymology 1

From Middle English carpe (late 14th century), via Old French carpe from a surmised Vulgar Latin *carpa (which is also the source of Italian carpa). The word is of Germanic origin, cognate with Old High German karpho. An East Germanic origin (unrecorded Gothic *karpa) has been proposed, as the fish was introduced from the Danube.

Noun

carp (plural carp or carps)

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

Derived terms

• Asian carp
• bighead carp
• black carp
• carp bream
• carpless
• carplike
• carp louse
• common carp
• crucian carp
• flying carp
• German carp
• grass carp
• holy carp
• Indian carp
• invasive carp
• Japanese crucian carp
• koi carp
• leather carp
• mirror carp
• Prussian carp
• river carp
• sabre 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
• Basque: karpa
• 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 (gl) f
• Georgian: კობრი (ḳobri), ჭანარი (č̣anari)
• German: Karpfen (de) m
• Greek: κυπρίνος (el) m (kyprínos)

  Ancient: κυπρῖνος m (kuprînos)

• 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)
• Kazakh: тұқы (tūqy)
• Korean: 잉어(鯉魚) (ing'eo)
• Latin: carpa f
• Macedonian: крап m (krap)
• Manchu: ᡶᡠᠰᡝᠯᡳ (fuseli)
• Maori: morihana
• Norman: carpe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karpe m, karpefisk m

  Nynorsk: karpe f

• Ottoman Turkish: سازان‎ (sazan)
• 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

• Sichuan Yi: ꆹꒄꉛ (li yup hxe)
• Slovak: kapor (sk) m
• Slovene: krap (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: karpa f

  Upper Sorbian: karp m

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

See also

• koi

Etymology 2

From Old Norse karpa (“to boast, brag”), karp (“bragging”); meaning later changed to "find fault with, carp at" due to influence of Latin carpō.

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.
   • 27 December 1591, Edmund Spenser, letter to Sir Walter Raleigh

     and with your good countenance protect against the malice of evil mouths, which are always wide open to carp at and misconstrue my simple meaning

   • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], OCLC 1154883115, (please specify the page number):

     My honest homely Words were carp'd, and censur'd

Translations

To complain about a fault

• Bulgarian: мърморя (bg) (mǎrmorja), опявам (bg) (opjavam)
• Esperanto: kritikaĉi
• Finnish: sättiä (fi)
• French: maugréer (fr)
• Icelandic: finna að, gagnrýna (is), gagnrýna smugulega, vera með sparðatíning, kvarta (is)
• Polish: utyskiwać (pl)
• Portuguese: resmungar (pt)
• Swedish: gnata (sv)

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.

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Romanian

Etymology

From French carpe.

Noun

carp n (uncountable)

1. carpus

Declension

declension of carp (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) carp	carpul
genitive/dative	(unui) carp	carpului
vocative	carpule