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:
  discuss the original of a merd.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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

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