carn

See also: Carn, càrn, cârn, and čarn

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːn/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Etymology 1

Noun

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 […]

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

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:

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

• Audio (Valencia):

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Noun

carn f (uncountable)

1. meat
2. 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 [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.