Carp

//ˈkɑːp//

Synonyms for "carp" (91 found)

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Closest matches (19)

cavil quibble bug bully bullyrag carp at catch at straws

Verb(12 words)

babble bat the breeze bemoan blab blabber blather cavil chat chatter chew the fat chew the rag chicane

Strong matches (27)

Verb(14 words)

chinwag chit-chat chunner clack claver clepe drivel gabble gibber go on grouch jabber lament maunder

complain criticize cut up fault-find find fault fish fret at fuss at get gripe hassle henpeck knock

Related words (45)

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

4 entries

cyprinid cyprinid fish freshwater fish object

More specific

21 entries

Asian carp German carp Indian carp Japanese crucian carp Prussian carp bighead carp black carp carp bream common carp crucian carp flying carp grass carp invasive carp koi koi carp leather carp

Showing 16 of 21 words.

Synonyms

1 entries

cavil

derived

9 entries

carp louse carp pox carper carping carpless carplike carpsucker holy carp toothcarp

is a

3 entries

cyprinid fish freshwater fish

part of

1 entries

domestic carp

related to

34 entries

also also fish big big goldfish blaming blaming people censure common carp complain crap cyprinidae cyprinus carpio fault fish fish type freshwater

Showing 16 of 34 words.

similar

2 entries

cavil quibble

Translations

100 translations across 69 languages.

Abenaki

1 entries

wôbhagas noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Afrikaans

1 entries

karp noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Albanian

1 entries

krap noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

κυπρῖνος noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Arabic

1 entries

شَبُّوط noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Aramaic

1 entries

ܫܒܘܛܐ noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Armenian

1 entries

ծածան noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Asturian

1 entries

carpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

karp noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
sazan noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
çəki balığı noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Basque

1 entries

karpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Belarusian

1 entries

карп noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Bulgarian

3 entries

шара́н noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
мърморя verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)
опявам verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

Catalan

1 entries

carpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Cebuano

1 entries

karpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

鯉魚 /鲤鱼 noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Czech

1 entries

kapr noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Danish

1 entries

karpe noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Dutch

1 entries

karper noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Esperanto

2 entries

karpo noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
kritikaĉi verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

Faroese

1 entries

karpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Finnish

2 entries

karppi noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
sättiä verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

French

2 entries

carpe noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
maugréer verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

Galician

1 entries

carpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Georgian

2 entries

კობრი noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
ჭანარი noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

German

1 entries

Karpfen noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Greek

1 entries

κυπρίνος noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Hebrew

1 entries

קרפיון noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Hungarian

1 entries

ponty noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Icelandic

4 entries

vatnakarfi noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
finna að verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)
gagnrýna verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)
gagnrýna smugulega verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

Ido

1 entries

karpo noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Indonesian

2 entries

ikan mas noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
karper noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Irish

1 entries

carbán noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Italian

2 entries

carpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
reina noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Japanese

2 entries

コイ noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
鯉 noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Kazakh

1 entries

тұқы noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Korean

1 entries

잉어 noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Latin

1 entries

carpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

karpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Macedonian

3 entries

крап noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
приго́вара verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)
се бу́ни verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

Malay

2 entries

ikan mas noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
kap noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Manchu

1 entries

ᡶᡠᠰᡝᠯᡳ noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Middle Armenian

1 entries

շապութ noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Māori

1 entries

morihana noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Norman

1 entries

carpe noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

karpe noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
karpefisk noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

karpe noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Nuosu

1 entries

ꆹꒄꉛ noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

سازان noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

потька noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Persian

1 entries

کپور noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Polish

3 entries

karp noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
utyskiwać verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)
zrzędzić verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

Portuguese

2 entries

carpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
resmungar verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

Romanian

1 entries

crap noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Russian

2 entries

карп noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
саза́н noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

krȁp noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
šàran noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
кра̏п noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
ша̀ран noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Slovak

1 entries

kapor noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Slovene

1 entries

krap noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Spanish

1 entries

carpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Swedish

2 entries

karp noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
gnata verb (to complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons)

Tagalog

1 entries

karpa noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Tamil

3 entries

கெண்டை noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
கெண்டைமீன் noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
சேல் noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Thai

1 entries

ไน noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Turkish

1 entries

sazan noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Ukrainian

1 entries

ко́роп noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

karp noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Vietnamese

1 entries

cá chép noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Volapük

1 entries

karip noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Yiddish

1 entries

קאַרפּ noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Zazaki

2 entries

kapır noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)
sazan noun (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Sample sentences

27 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The pond abounds with carp.

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Did you know that carp eat tadpoles?

Source: tatoeba (240270)

Such fishes as carp and trout live in fresh water.

Source: tatoeba (240271)

A clean river flows through our town, and we can see many carp swimming in it.

Source: tatoeba (247646)

Showing 4 of 27 available sentences.

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