merd
See also: mérd
English
Etymology
French merde, Latin merda. Doublet of mierda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɜː(ɹ)d/
- 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 54573970:
- discuss the original of a merd.
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Derived terms
- bemerd
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for merd in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- -derm, D-MER, Drem, E-DRM, EDMR, EMDR, derm, derm-
Estonian
Noun
merd
- partitive singular of meri
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- merjed
Etymology
mer + -d (personal suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛrd]
- Hyphenation: merd
- Rhymes: -ɛrd
Verb
merd
- second-person singular subjunctive present definite of mer
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛɾd/
Adjective
merd
- generous
- Synonym: camêr
- brave
- Synonym: mêrxas
- dependable, reliable
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
Norwegian Nynorsk
Merdar.
Alternative forms
- merde f
- mar, mir, mire, mør, mjerd, mjerde, mjard (dialectal)
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