cardar

From card +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kərˈda]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaɾˈðaɾ]

cardar (first-person singular present cardo, first-person singular preterite cardí, past participle cardat)

1. (textiles) to comb, card (to disentangle the fibres)
2. (vulgar, ambitransitive) to fuck

   Synonym: fotre

   • 1993, Quim Monzó, “La inòpia”, in El perquè de tot plegat, Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, →ISBN, page 33:

     ¿Deu ser conscient que, fidel a la fidelitat, la carn se li ha afluixat, li han sortit arrugues, i gent que fa deu anys hauria volgut cardar amb ella ara ni ho considera?

     She must be aware that, staying true to faithfulness, her flesh has loosened, wrinkles have appeared, and whoever would've fucked her ten years ago won't even think about it now?

• cardada
• cardador
• cardaire

• “cardar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cardar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

From cardo, from Latin carduus (“thistle”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kɑɾˈðaɾ/

cardar (first-person singular present cardo, first-person singular preterite cardei, past participle cardado)

1. (textiles) to card

• carda
• cardador

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cardar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cardar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cardar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cardar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cardar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: car‧dar

cardar (first-person singular present cardo, first-person singular preterite cardei, past participle cardado)

1. to tease; to card (to disentangle the fibres of fibrous material)

From cardo, from Latin carduus (“thistle”).

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈdaɾ/ [kaɾˈð̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: car‧dar

cardar (first-person singular present cardo, first-person singular preterite cardé, past participle cardado)

1. to card or comb

• “cardar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024