carpa

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkar.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaɾ.pa]

Inherited from Late Latin carpa.

carpa f (plural carpes)

1. carp (fish)

• carpí

Borrowed from Spanish carpa.

carpa f (plural carpes)

1. large tent

• “carpa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “carpa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “carpa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

carpa

1. inflection of carpir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

carpa (plural carpas)

1. wrist

• carpal

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pa/
• Rhymes: -arpa
• Hyphenation: càr‧pa

Inherited from Late Latin carpa.

carpa f (plural carpe)

1. carp (fish)

   Synonym: reina

• → Ladin: carpa
• → Romansh: carpa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

carpa

1. inflection of carpare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• capra, parca

Unattested in Late Latin, from an unattested Germanic source (possibly Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍀𐌰 (*karpa)). Surmised only from Old French carpe, Italian carpa. Compare Old High German karpho (from which German Karpfen).

Suggestions as to the further origin of the supposed Gothic word are speculative. It has been compared with Sanskrit शफर (śaphara), Welsh carp, Lithuanian šapalas. However, the un-shifted Germanic k suggests that the word entered Indo-European languages through Germanic and is ultimately from a non-Indo-European substrate native to the Alpine region and Danube basin.^[1][2]

carpa f (genitive carpae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) A carp (fish)

First-declension noun.

• "carpa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Late Latin carpa, from a Germanic language, probably Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍀𐌰 (*karpa).

• Hyphenation: car‧pa

carpa f (plural carpas)

1. carp (any fish of the family Cyprinidae)

• “carpa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “carpa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾpa/ [ˈkaɾ.pa]

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• Rhymes: -aɾpa
• Syllabification: car‧pa

Borrowed from Quechua karpa.

carpa f (plural carpas)

1. tent (for events, party, circus)
2. (Latin America) tent (for camping)

   Synonym: (Spain) tienda de campaña

3. (theater) a kind of comedic and musical theatre, under a tent

• → Catalan: carpa

• tienda f
• toldo m

Inherited from Late Latin carpa.

carpa f (plural carpas)

1. carp (fish)

• Palenquero: kappa
• → Basque: karpa
• → Cebuano: karpa
• → Tagalog: karpa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

carpa

1. inflection of carpir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “carpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Cyprinus carpio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• carpa (circo) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• carpas (teatro en México) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es