# carn
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑːn/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːn

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

carn (plural carns)
* 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 […]

##### See also

* Carn Brea

### 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
* (Australia, informal) Come on.
** 2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.3, p.52:
    Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us. "Carn, kid. No guts, no glory." "I don't think so," I said. "It's the only way home now."
* (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
** 1956 September 10, “Carn the Magpies!”, in The Argus:
** 2001 March 26, “Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected”, in 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”, in 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”, in Herald Sun:

### Anagrams

* Cran, NRCA, cRNA, cran, cran-, crna, narc

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin carnem, from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-. Compare Occitan carn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkarn]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkaɾn]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

carn f (uncountable)
* meat
* flesh

#### Derived terms

* cansalada
* carnisser
* carnós
* carnut
* descarnar

#### Related terms

* carn de gallina
* carnal
* carnaval
* carnestoltes
* carni
* carnívor
* encarnar

### 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, 2025
* “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.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /kɑːɾˠn̪ˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /kaːɾˠn̪ˠ/

### Noun

carn m (genitive singular cairn, nominative plural cairn)
* heap, pile
* cairn

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
carn
cairn
vocative
a chairn
a charna
genitive
cairn
carn
dative
carn
cairn
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an carn
na cairn
genitive
an chairn
na gcarn
dative
leis an gcarn don charn
leis na cairn :

#### Derived terms

* carn aoiligh
* carn consan
* carnán

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “carn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97

### Further reading

* “carn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “carn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 119
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* charn (Limousin)

### Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin carō, carnem.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

carn f (plural carns)
* flesh
* meat

## Old French
### Noun

carn oblique singular, f (oblique plural carns, nominative singular carn, nominative plural carns)
* (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of char (flesh)

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* charn

### Etymology

From Latin carō, carnem.

### Noun

carn f
* flesh

#### Descendants

* Occitan: carn

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

From Latin carnis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /karŋ/

### Noun

carn m
* flesh
* meat

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* charn (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
* tgarn (Sutsilvan)
* tgern (Surmiran)

### Etymology

From Latin carō, carnem.

### Noun

carn f (plural carns)
* (Sursilvan) meat

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /karn/

### Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh carn.

#### Noun

carn m (plural carnau)
* hoof
* handle, haft (of knife)
* hilt

##### Derived terms

* carn pinwydd m (“red-belted bracket”)
* carn y fedwen m (“hoof fungus”)
* carnog (“hoofed”, adjective)
* carnol (“hoofed”, adjective)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Welsh carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Akin to carreg.

#### Noun

carn f (plural carnau)
* cairn, barrow
    Synonym: carnedd

##### Derived terms

* carnedd (“cairn”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.