What does karl in Icelandic mean?

What is the meaning of the word karl in Icelandic? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use karl in Icelandic.

The word karl in Icelandic means man, chess piece, male, Charles, man. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word karl

man

noun (adult male human)

Gaman ađ sjá ađ kvæntur karl kann ađ sauma.

It's nice to see a married man who can sew.

chess piece

noun (any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess)

male

noun

Enginn, hvorki karl né kona, á að hafa kynmök fyrir giftingu.

No one, male or female, is to have sexual relations before marriage.

Charles

proper (given name)

Karl segist hafa farið að spila „mjög mikið“ þegar hann var 11 ára.

Charles says that he began playing “all the time” when he was about 11.

man

verb noun interjection (male adult human)

Karl og kona eiga aldrei ađ vera ein nema ūau séu á hreyfingu.

Because man and woman should never be alone unless they are in motion.

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Ūađ væri skrũtiđ ef Karl henti okkur ekki út.

I'll be surprised if Karl doesn't evict us.

2 Ýmsir valdhafar hafa verið nefndir „miklir,“ svo sem Kýrus mikli, Alexander mikli og Karl mikli (eða Karlamagnús) sem nefndur var „hinn mikli“ jafnvel í lifanda lífi.

2 Various rulers have been called Great, such as Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, and Charlemagne, who was termed “the Great” even during his own lifetime.

„Hafið þér eigi lesið, að skaparinn gjörði þau frá upphafi karl og konu og sagði: ‚Fyrir því skal maður yfirgefa föður og móður og bindast konu sinni, og þau tvö skulu verða einn maður.‘

“Did you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’?

16 Karl, kona, piltur eða stúlka, sem er kynferðislega ögrandi í klæðaburði, er ekki að draga fram sanna karlmennsku eða kvenleika með því og vissulega ekki að heiðra Guð.

16 For a man or woman, boy or girl, to act in or dress in a sexually provocative way would not enhance true masculinity or femininity, and it certainly does not honor God.

„Þegar karl getur konu barn utan hjónabands, ætti að leggja fulla áherslu á að þau giftist.

“When a man and woman conceive a child out of wedlock, every effort should be made to encourage them to marry.

Núna er ég orðinn karl í krapinu

Now it' s turned to barnacles

Þetta var um 200 árum áður en læknirinn Karl Landsteiner uppgötvaði ABO blóðflokkakerfið.

This is the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, the scientist who discovered the ABO blood group system.

Karl kvæntist aldrei og eignaðist aldrei börn.

Charles never married nor had children.

Þessi kærasti þinn, ekki heitir hann Karl?

Your boyfriend, his name happen to be " Karl "?

Í bók sinni Das Buch des Bücher (Bók bókanna) segir Karl Ringshausen á 3. blaðsíðu:

In his book Das Buch der Bücher (The Book of Books), page 3, Karl Ringshausen writes:

Vktu, litli karl.

Give way, little man.

6 Þegar óleyfilegar langanir hafa skotið rótum í svikulu hjartanu má búast við að karl og kona, sem laðast hvort að öðru, fari að ræða mál sem þau ættu ekki að ræða við annan en maka sinn.

6 Once illicit desires take root in their treacherous hearts, two people who are attracted to each other may find themselves discussing matters that they should be sharing only with their spouse.

Nei, karl minn.

No sir-you-ree Bob!

Þessi ríki karl, einhver iðnjöfur... vill fá hann í móttökuna í fyrirtækinu sínu

This rich cat, some industrialist...... wants him for the lobby of his company

Þeim finnst að það sé betra fyrir karl og konu að búa saman áður en þau skuldbinda sig með hjónabandi.

They feel that it is better for a man and woman to live together before making a commitment to become husband and wife.

‘Í Biblíuna vantar ótvíræða yfirlýsingu þess efnis að faðirinn, sonurinn og heilagur andi séu sama eðlis‘ [segir mótmælendaguðfræðingurinn Karl Barth].“

‘The Bible lacks the express declaration that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are of equal essence’ [said Protestant theologian Karl Barth].”

Við þetta hverfa að mestu hin eiginlegu karleinkenni vegna þess að þau eru háð karl-kynhormónum sem framleidd eru í eistum.

Mostly they get away with this, due to the illusion-creating glamour they cast.

3 Rétt eins og Karl þurftu mörg okkar að breyta miklu áður en við létum skírast, til að laga okkur að helstu kröfum Biblíunnar.

3 Like Kevin, many of us had to make significant changes prior to our baptism in order to bring our life into harmony with the Bible’s basic requirements.

En Karl er uppá ūví!

But Karl's up there!

Karl lét skírast ári síðar eftir nokkrar biblíunámsstundir og varð þá einn af Biblíunemendunum.

About a year later, after several sessions of Bible study, Karl was baptized, thereby becoming one of the Bible Students.

Við honum tók frændi hans, Karl.

His brother, Charles joined him.

Bara af því að ég var góður, gamall karl og hún vorkenndi mér.

But only because I was a nice, kind, old man, and she was sorry for me.

Til dæmis eru karl-trúboðar ávarpaðir sem öldungar.

For example, male missionaries are addressed as elders.

Leiðinlegur karl

Boring old buffer, really

Sumir ganga skrefi lengra og halda því fram að með því að flytja gen milli óskyldra tegunda „séum við komin inn á svið sem tilheyrir Guði og Guði einum.“ Karl Bretaprins er þeirrar skoðunar.

Others, Prince Charles of England included, argue that transferring genes between utterly unrelated species “takes us into the realms that belong to God, and to God alone.”

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