carp

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːp/
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• General-American: /ˈkɑɹp/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)p
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA1 R P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As a German, Polish, and Jewish surname, spelling variant of Karp. * As an English surname, from the noun carp (“kind of fish”). * Also as an English surname, from the verb carp (“to complain”).

From Late Middle English carpe (“the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)”), from Old French carpe, from Late Latin carpa, possibly from Proto-West Germanic *karpo (possibly due to the introduction from the fish from the Danube into England in the 14th century; whence Middle Low German karpe and Old High German charpho, karpho); further etymology unknown.

The verb is derived from Middle English carpen, karpe (“to chat, converse, talk; to chatter, gossip; to ask; to cry out, wail; to find fault, carp; to relate, tell; to recite; to sing”), and then partly: * from Old Norse karpa (“to boast, brag; to dispute, quarrel”), further etymology unknown; and * from, or influenced by, Latin carpere, the present active infinitive of carpō (“to harvest, pick, pluck; to criticize, revile, slander, carp at”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to harvest, pluck”). The noun is derived from the verb. (Middle English carp, karp (“conversation, discourse, talking; spoken or written message or statement; meaning; news; poem; song; story”), from Old Norse karp (“bragging”), did not survive into modern English.)

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abenaki: wôbhagas — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Afrikaans: karp — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Albanian: krap — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Arabic: شَبُّوط (šabbūṭ) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Aramaic: ܫܒܘܛܐ (šabbūṭā) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Armenian: ծածան (cacan) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Middle Armenian: շապութ (šaputʻ) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Asturian: carpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Azerbaijani: karp — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Azerbaijani: çəki balığı — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Azerbaijani: sazan — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Basque: karpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Belarusian: карп (karp) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Bulgarian: шара́н (šarán) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Catalan: carpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Cebuano: karpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Chinese Mandarin: 鯉魚 /鲤鱼 (lǐyú) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Czech: kapr — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Danish: karpe — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Dutch: karper — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Esperanto: karpo — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Faroese: karpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Finnish: karppi — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• French: carpe — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Galician: carpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Georgian: ჭანარი (č̣anari) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Georgian: კობრი (ḳobri) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• German: Karpfen — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Greek: κυπρίνος (kyprínos) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Ancient Greek: κυπρῖνος (kuprînos) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Hebrew: קרפיון (qarpion) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Hungarian: ponty — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Icelandic: vatnakarfi — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Ido: karpo — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Indonesian: ikan mas — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Indonesian: karper — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Irish: carbán — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Italian: carpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Italian: reina — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Japanese: 鯉 (koi) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Japanese: コイ (koi) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Kazakh: тұқы (tūqy) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Korean: 잉어 (ing'eo) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Latin: carpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Macedonian: крап (krap) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Malay: ikan mas — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Malay: kap — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Manchu: ᡶᡠᠰᡝᠯᡳ (fuseli) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Māori: morihana — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Moksha: шипёр (šipör) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Norman: carpe — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Norwegian Bokmål: karpe — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Norwegian Bokmål: karpefisk — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karpe — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Nuosu: ꆹꒄꉛ (li yup hxe) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Pannonian Rusyn: потька (potʹka) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Persian: کپور (kapur) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Polish: karp — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Portuguese: carpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Romanian: crap — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Russian: карп (karp) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Russian: саза́н (sazán) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Serbo-Croatian: кра̏п — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Serbo-Croatian: ша̀ран — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Serbo-Croatian: krȁp — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Serbo-Croatian: šàran — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Slovak: kapor — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Slovene: krap — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Lower Sorbian: karpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Upper Sorbian: karp — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Spanish: carpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Swedish: karp — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Tagalog: karpa — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Tamil: சேல் (cēl) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Tamil: கெண்டை (keṇṭai) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Tamil: கெண்டைமீன் (keṇṭaimīṉ) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Thai: ไน (nai) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Turkish: sazan — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Ottoman Turkish: سازان (sazan) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Ukrainian: ко́роп (kórop) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Vietnamese: cá chép — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Volapük: karip — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Yiddish: קאַרפּ (karp) — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Zazaki: kapır — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Zazaki: sazan — any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
• Bulgarian: мърморя (mǎrmorja) — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Bulgarian: опявам (opjavam) — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Esperanto: kritikaĉi — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Finnish: sättiä — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• French: maugréer — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Icelandic: finna að — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Icelandic: gagnrýna — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Icelandic: gagnrýna smugulega — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Icelandic: kvarta — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Icelandic: vera með sparðatíning — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Macedonian: се бу́ни (se búni) — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Macedonian: приго́вара (prigóvara) — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Polish: utyskiwać — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Polish: zrzędzić — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Portuguese: resmungar — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons
• Swedish: gnata — to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons