Masculine
canard
Meaning
- (masculine) duck (of either sex)
- (masculine) drake (male duck)
- (masculine) canard, hoax
- (informal, masculine, slang) newspaper
- (informal, masculine, slang) a man who complies with every desire of his partner in order to avoid conflict
- (informal, masculine, slang) a man who tries to attract women by offering them gifts
- (masculine) lump of sugar dunked in coffee or brandy
- (colloquial, masculine) off-note
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
Ente
pato
pato
anatra
eend
ànec
ördek
πάπια
anas
بطة
ritFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka.naʁ/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Middle French canard, from Old French canart, quanart (“duck”), from cane (“female duck", also "boat”), perhaps ultimately from the same imitative root as caner (“cackle, prattle”) or from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Frankish *kano, from Proto-West Germanic *kanō, from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *gan-, *gandʰ- (“vessel, tub”). + -ard (suffix), from Frankish *-hard (“hardy, bold”), from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard”). Cognate with Middle High German -hart. More at hard. Compare Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse knǫrr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).
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