cardar

Catalan

Etymology

From card +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

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, transitive, intransitive) 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?

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cardada
• cardador
• cardaire

Further reading

• “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, 2024

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑɾˈðaɾ/

Verb

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

1. (textiles) to card

Conjugation

Derived terms

• carda
• cardador

References

• “carda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cardar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cardar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “cardar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cardar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “cardar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: car‧dar

Verb

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)

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. to card or comb

Conjugation

Further reading

• “cardar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014