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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d
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• England: /kɑːd/
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• England: [khɑːd]
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• US: /kɑɹd/
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• US: [khɑɹd]
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• Australian: /kaːd/
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• Australian: [khäːd]
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• New-Zealand: /kɐːd/
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• New-Zealand: [khɐːd]
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• Scotland: /kard/
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From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of carte and chart.

From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carō (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.

204 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 牌 (pái) — resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose
• Dutch: kaart — resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose
• Dutch: troef — resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose
• French: carte — resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose
• Russian: ка́рта (kárta) — resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose
• Russian: ко́зырь (kózyrʹ) — resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose
• Slovak: karta — resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose
• Afrikaans: kaart — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Albanian: kartë — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Arabic: بِطَاقَة (biṭāqa) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Arabic: كَارْت (kārt) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Arabic: وَرَقَة (waraqa) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Arabic: كَرْت (kart) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Arabic: بِطَاقَة (biṭāga) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Arabic: كَرْت (kart) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܘܲܪܵܩܵܐ (wāraqa) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Armenian: քարտ (kʻart) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Asturian: tarxeta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Azerbaijani: kart — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Basque: txartela — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Basque: txartel — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Belarusian: ка́рта (kárta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Belarusian: ка́ртка (kártka) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Bengali: কার্ড (karḍo) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Breton: kartenn — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Bulgarian: ка́рта (kárta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Bulgarian: ка́ртичка (kártička) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Burmese: ကတ် (kat) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Catalan: carta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Catalan: (barbarism) targeta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Chinese Mandarin: 卡 (kǎ) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Chinese Mandarin: 卡片 (kǎpiàn) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Cornish: karten — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Czech: karta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Danish: kort — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Dutch: kaart — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Esperanto: karto — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Estonian: kaart — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Faroese: kort — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Finnish: kortti — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• French: carte — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• French: fiche — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Friulian: cjarte — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Galician: tarxeta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Georgian: ბარათი (barati) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• German: Karte — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Greek: κάρτα (kárta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Gujarati: કાર્ડ (kārḍ) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Hausa: kati — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Hebrew: כַּרְטִיס (kartís) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Hindi: कार्ड (kārḍ) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Hungarian: kártya — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Icelandic: kort — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Ido: karto — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Indonesian: kartu — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Irish: cárta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Italian: scheda — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Italian: carta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Italian: biglietto — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Italian: card — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Japanese: カード (kādo) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Japanese: 札 (fuda) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Kazakh: карта (karta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Kazakh: карточка (kartoçka) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Khmer: កាត (kaat) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Korean: 카드 (kadeu) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Kyrgyz: карта (karta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Kyrgyz: карточка (kartocka) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Lao: ບັດປະ — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Lao: ບັດ (bat) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Latvian: karšu — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Lithuanian: korta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Lithuanian: kortelė — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Luxembourgish: Kaart — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Macedonian: ка́рта (kárta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Macedonian: ка́ртичка (kártička) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Malay: daun — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Malay: kartu — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Malay: kad — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Mòcheno: kòrt — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Mongolian: карт (kart) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Norwegian Bokmål: kort — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Pashto: کارټ (kārṭ) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Pashto: کارډ (kārḍ) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Iranian Persian: کارْت (kârt) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: kaad — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Plautdietsch: Koat — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Portuguese: cartão — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Portuguese: carta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Romanian: card — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Romanian: carte — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Russian: ка́рточка (kártočka) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Russian: ка́рта (kárta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̑рта — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̀ртица — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: kȃrta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: kàrtica — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Sinhalese: කාඩ් (kāḍ) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Slovak: karta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Slovene: karta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Slovene: kartica — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Spanish: carta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Spanish: tarjeta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Swahili: kadi — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Swedish: kort — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Tagalog: kard — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Tajik: варақа (varaqa) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Tajik: корт (kort) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Tajik: карточка (kartočka) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Thai: บัตร (bàt) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Thai: การ์ด (gáat) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Turkish: kart — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Turkmen: kartoçka — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Turkmen: karta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Ukrainian: ка́рта (kárta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Ukrainian: ка́ртка (kártka) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Urdu: کارْڈ (kārḍ) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Uyghur: قارتا (qarta) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Uzbek: karta — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Uzbek: kartochka — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Vietnamese: thẻ — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Volapük: kad — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Walloon: cwåte — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Welsh: cerdyn — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Yiddish: קאָרט (kort) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Yiddish: קאַרטל (kartl) — flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• Chinese Mandarin: 令人發笑的人 /令人发笑的人 (lìngrén fāxiào de rén) — (informal) amusing person
• French: allumé — (informal) amusing person
• Italian: sagoma — (informal) amusing person
• Swahili: kadi — (informal) amusing person
• Dutch: plan — list of scheduled events
• Dutch: agenda — list of scheduled events
• Dutch: schema — list of scheduled events
• French: agenda — list of scheduled events
• Italian: agenda — list of scheduled events
• Italian: programma — list of scheduled events
• Russian: план (plan) — list of scheduled events
• Swahili: kadi — (cricket) tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match
• French: carte — greeting card
• Slovak: pohľadnica — greeting card
• Dutch: kaarde — device to raise the nap on a fabric
• Finnish: karsta — device to raise the nap on a fabric
• Galician: carda — device to raise the nap on a fabric
• Swahili: kadi — device to raise the nap on a fabric
• Dutch: kaardplank — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Dutch: kaarde — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Dutch: wolkam — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Finnish: karsta — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Greek: λανάρι (lanári) — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Ancient Greek: ξάνιον (xánion) — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Irish: carda — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Italian: pettine — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Polish: zgrzebło — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Swedish: karda — hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
• Dutch: kaardrol — machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning
• Finnish: karstauskone — machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning
• Finnish: karstain — machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning
• French: carde — machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning
• Swahili: kadi — machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning
• Dutch: controleren — to check IDs
• Finnish: tarkistaa henkilöllisyys — to check IDs
• Finnish: kysyä paperit — to check IDs
• French: contrôler — to check IDs
• Norwegian Bokmål: legge — to check IDs
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjekke aldersbevis — to check IDs
• Polish: legitymować — to check IDs
• Polish: wylegitymować — to check IDs
• Slovak: legitimovať — to check IDs
• Swahili: kadi — to check IDs
• Swedish: legga — to check IDs
• Armenian: գզել (gzel) — to use carding device
• Bulgarian: кардирам (kardiram) — to use carding device
• Catalan: cardar — to use carding device
• Danish: karte — to use carding device
• Dutch: kaarden — to use carding device
• Finnish: karstata — to use carding device
• French: carder — to use carding device
• Galician: cardar — to use carding device
• Galician: ripar — to use carding device
• German: kämmen — to use carding device
• German: krempeln — to use carding device
• German: kardätschen — to use carding device
• Greek: ξαίνω (xaíno) — to use carding device
• Ancient Greek: κνᾰ́πτω (knắptō) — to use carding device
• Hungarian: kártol — to use carding device
• Icelandic: kemba — to use carding device
• Irish: cardáil — to use carding device
• Italian: cardare — to use carding device
• Latin: carminō — to use carding device
• Middle English: tesen — to use carding device
• Middle English: tosen — to use carding device
• Middle English: carden — to use carding device
• Navajo: hainiłchaad — to use carding device
• Polish: gręplować — to use carding device
• Polish: zgrzeblić — to use carding device
• Romanian: carda — to use carding device
• Romanian: scărmăna — to use carding device
• Romanian: dărăci — to use carding device
• Swahili: kadi — to use carding device
• Swedish: karda — to use carding device
• Ukrainian: кардувати (karduvaty) — to use carding device
• Finnish: raapia — to scrape or tear someone’s flesh
• Galician: carpir — to scrape or tear someone’s flesh