carn

• IPA^(key): /kɑːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

carn (plural carns)

1. 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 […]

• Carn Brea

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.

carn

1. (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."

2. (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:

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

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkarn]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaɾn]

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carn f (uncountable)

1. meat
2. flesh

• “carn”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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.

From Old Irish carn,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *karnos.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /kɑːɾˠn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kaːɾˠn̪ˠ/^[2]

carn m (genitive singular cairn, nominative plural cairn)

1. heap, pile
2. cairn

• carn aoiligh
• carn consan
• carnán

• “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

• charn (Limousin)

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin carō, carnem.

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carn f (plural carns)

1. flesh
2. meat

carn oblique singular, f (oblique plural carns, nominative singular carn, nominative plural carns)

1. (early Anglo-Norman) alternative form of char (flesh)

• charn

From Latin carō, carnem.

carn f

1. flesh

• Occitan: carn

From Latin carnis.

• IPA^(key): /karŋ/

carn m

1. flesh
2. meat

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

From Latin carō, carnem.

carn f (plural carns)

1. (Sursilvan) meat

• IPA^(key): /karn/

From Middle Welsh carn.

carn m (plural carnau)

1. hoof
2. handle, haft (of knife)
3. hilt

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

carn f (plural carnau)

1. cairn, barrow

   Synonym: carnedd

• carnedd (“cairn”)