merd
See also: mérd
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɜː(ɹ)d/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Noun
merd
- (obsolete) Ordure; dung.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- discuss the original of a merd.
Derived terms
References
- “merd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Hungarian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛrd]
- Hyphenation: merd
- Rhymes: -ɛrd
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛɾd/
Derived terms
- merdayî
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “merd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 373
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse merðr, from Proto-Germanic *merþaz, *merþraz. Cognate with Icelandic merður.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛːr/, /mɛːɽ/
Noun
merd m (definite singular merden, indefinite plural merdar, definite plural merdane)
- a fish trap
- a net enclosure used in aquaculture
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