{"id":20222,"date":"2020-11-27T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T13:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20222"},"modified":"2020-11-27T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T13:33:27","slug":"a-touch-of-the-cafards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20222","title":{"rendered":"A Touch of the Cafards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a French-speaking person told you that they <strong>have the cafard<\/strong>, would you know what they meant?<\/p>\n<p>In French, <strong>avoir le cafard<\/strong> means to feel down, blue or to have the blues. The word <strong>cafard<\/strong> [ka.fa\u0281] means depression, sadness, melancholoy. It also means a false devotee, hypocrite or bigot; an informant; or a cockroach [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.le-dictionnaire.com\/definition\/cafard\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/franksworldpics\/22419410884\/in\/photolist-Aa8kLY-9bGgkk-297mCoc-G3rUMT-qRV8uS-449qaZ-zrpuL-uaz2mu-nRGEtf-rrMWHd-9aRcMW-kqeEf-7ndjMq-4aVj4q-E3jBNa-oKKx5Y-7R5Y7h-8guMCn-643u4x-RA83v6-5hYWnw-7w1zPq-q53GdJ-49k7j-3VZynT-qeaxz4-cTLvYy-GsbHt-9mJwp5-4oXMhp-36VNLr-khrTJZ-zrAzYw-5apWT5-sg1UU-6eSTtj-8FuwWj-2inbPU-nvya2f-5Hxfq-ftV7Qw-wjzDAE-ChLxj-hreEM9-fnKTER-coG6Uw-9zcA81-5a6Gx3-aChK3G-8fdL4E\" title=\"Feeling blue\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5806\/22419410884_f8acc1bbce_z.jpg\" alt=\"Feeling blue\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Arabic <strong>\u0643\u064e\u0627\u0641\u0650\u0631<\/strong>\u200e (k\u0101fir &#8211; unbeliever, disbeliever; farmer; ungrateful), from <strong>\u0643\u064e\u0641\u064e\u0631\u064e\u200e<\/strong> (kafara &#8211; to disbelieve, cover,  conceal) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cafard\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words and expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>un coup de cafard = a fit of the blues<\/li>\n<li>attraper le cafard = to get the blues<\/li>\n<li>donner le cafard = to depress<\/li>\n<li>J&#8217;ai toujours le cafard les lundis = I always feel blue on Mondays<\/li>\n<li>cafardeux (-euse) = glum, gloomy, depressing<\/li>\n<li>cafarder = to sneak, to sneak on, to tattle (on), to tell tales, to rat (sb out), to blab, to grass up, to dob in, to tittle-tattle<\/li>\n<li>cafardage = sneaking, talebearing, taletelling, tattling<\/li>\n<li>cafardeur (-euse) = snitch, squealer, tattletale, grass, telltale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How would you describe someone who informs on \/ betrays people, or a <strong>cafardeur\/cafardeuse<\/strong>, and what they do (<strong>cafarder<\/strong>)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a French-speaking person told you that they have the cafard, would you know what they meant? In French, avoir le cafard means to feel down, blue or to have the blues. The word cafard [ka.fa\u0281] means depression, sadness, melancholoy. It also means a false devotee, hypocrite or bigot; an informant; or a cockroach [source]. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,104,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20228,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222\/revisions\/20228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}