different between kara vs kama

English

Etymology

From Punjabi ??? (ka??); see Hindi ???? (ka??, “bracelet”).

Noun

kara (plural karas)

1. (Sikhism) A bangle worn by Sikhs, one of the five Ks, to remind them to do God's work.

Anagrams

• arak, rak'a

Balinese

Romanization

kara

1. Romanization of ??
2. Romanization of ???

Basque

Noun

kara

1. allative singular of ka

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *kar?d. Cognate with Breton karout and Welsh caru.

Verb

kara (irregular)

1. to love

Conjugation

Mutation

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian caro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kara/
• Hyphenation: ka?ra
• Rhymes: -ara
• Audio:

Adjective

kara (accusative singular karan, plural karaj, accusative plural karajn)

1. dear

Derived terms

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?r?/, [?k?r?]
• Rhymes: -?r?
• Syllabification: ka?ra

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *kara.

Noun

kara

1. a dried branch, rib of a leaf or other similar dried part of a plant

   Synonym: karahka

2. core (uneaten part of an apple or similar fruit)
3. core of a pirn (in a weaving shuttle)
4. (machining) spindle
5. core (in injection molding)
6. spindle (of a door or window handle, etc.)
7. pin (a piece of wood, partly inserted inside the wall, that supports the frame of a window or door)
8. valve stem

Declension

Derived terms

• omenankara

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

kara

1. Synonym of koskikara (“bird of the genus Cinclus”)

Declension

Etymology 3

Clipping of karamboli.

Noun

kara

1. carom billiards, carambole

Declension

Anagrams

• arka

Gothic

Romanization

kara

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Hungarian

Etymology

From kar +? -a (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?r?]
• Hyphenation: ka?ra

Noun

kara

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of kar (“faculty; ensemble”)

Usage notes

For the possessive of kar in the sense “arm, lever”, see karja.

Declension

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kara/

Adjective

kara

1. dear

Japanese

Romanization

kara

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Jingpho

Noun

kara

1. hair

Karaim

Adjective

kara

1. black

References

• dnathan.com

Karao

Noun

kara

1. purpose; motive; intention

Latvian

Noun

kara m

1. genitive singular form of karš

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German karre, ultimately from Latin carrus, from Gaulish karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kara/

Noun

kara f (diminutive karka)

1. cart, wagon

Declension

References

• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Mapudungun

Noun

kara (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. city

   Synonym: waria

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Nias

Noun

kara (mutated form gara)

1. stone

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??r?/

Noun

kara n

1. definite plural of kar

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²k?(?)r?/

Noun

kara m

1. (non-standard since 1983) definite plural of kar

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kara n

1. definite plural of kar

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *karu. Cognate with Old English caru, Old High German chara (“grief”), Old Norse k?r (“sickbed”), Gothic ???????????????? (kara).

Noun

kara f

1. grief, sorrow
2. anxiety

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Oroqen

Adjective

kara

1. dark

References

• Whaley, Lindsay & Li, Fengxiang. (1998). The Suffix -Kan in Oroqen. Studies in Language. 22. 447-471. 10.1075/sl.22.2.06wha.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ra/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kara.

Noun

kara f

1. punishment
2. penalty, fine

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kara

1. inflection of karo:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

kara

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of kary

Further reading

• kara in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rapa Nui

Noun

kara

1. wing

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (kara), from Proto-Turkic *kara (“dark, black”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k????/

Adjective

kara (comparative daha kara, superlative en kara)

1. black, dark

   Synonym: siyah

   Antonyms: ak, beyaz

2. brunette
3. dark skinned
4. (figuratively) evil, wicked, villainous
5. (figuratively, archaic) courageous

Declension

Descendants

• ? Adyghe: ????? (q?r?)

Noun

kara (definite accusative karay?, plural karalar)

1. black

   Synonym: siyah

   Antonym: ak

2. land, field

   Antonym: deniz

3. (archaic) north

Declension

Coordinate terms

• (compass points)

See also

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kara

1. bay, inlet

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Wanyi

Noun

kara

1. country
2. stone

References

• Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: käm?, IPA^(key): /k?m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?

Etymology 1

From Japanese ? (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

Noun

kama (plural kama or kamas)

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

See also

• Kama (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit ??? (k??ma).

Noun

kama (uncountable)

1. (India) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   • 1958, V. Raghavan Chapter XII: K?ma, The Third End of Man, Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary (editors), Sources of Indian Tradition, Volume 2, page 258,

     The place of k?ma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).

   • 2006, Indian Erotology, article in Alan Soble (editor), Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493,

     Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and k?ma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

Derived terms

• kama rupa
• Kama Sutra

See also

• preman

Anagrams

• maka

Acehnese

Noun

kama

1. room (part of a building)

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Bikol Central

Etymology

From Spanish cama (“bed”).

Noun

kama

1. bed

Chichewa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese cama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.má/

Noun

kamá 9 (plural makamá 6)

1. bed

Synonyms

• bedi

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Verb

-kama (infinitive kukáma)

1. to milk

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kama]

Adverb

kama

1. (dialect, Moravia) which way, which direction

Synonyms

• (standard Czech) kudy

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. finely milled flour mixture (Estonian/Finnish food, talkkuna in Finnish)
2. kama

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Finnish

Etymology

Unknown; possibly related to dialectal kamahtaa ("to thump, to thud").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m?/, [?k?m?]
• Rhymes: -?m?
• Syllabification: ka?ma

Noun

kama

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) stuff (miscellaneous items or objects; personal effects)

2. (slang, singular only) product (illegal drugs)

Declension

Synonyms

• (stuff): tavara, roju

Compounds

• arvokama
• lällärikama
• pintakama

Garo

Verb

kama

1. (transitive) to burn

Related terms

• soa (intransitive)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (k?ma, “love”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *káHmas (“desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh?-mo-s, from *keh?- (“to desire, wish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

kama

1. love, especially sexual love or sensuality.
2. personification of love or desire as deity.

Related terms

Further reading

• “kama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Jamamadí

Verb

kama

1. (Banawá) to come

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

kama

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese cama.

Noun

kama

1. bed

Kavalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien ?? (kam-á, “tangerine”).

Noun

kama

1. orange; tangerine

Lele (Chad)

Noun

k?m?

1. water

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-? "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Lele k?m? [Gowers], […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ?ISBN, page 38

Maranao

Etymology 1

Noun

kama

1. breastplate

Etymology 2

From Spanish cama (“bed”)

Noun

kama

1. bed, cot

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kãma/

Noun

kama

1. breast

Ontong Java

Noun

kama

1. human
2. man
3. person

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese cama and Spanish cama and Kabuverdianu kama.

Noun

kama

1. bed

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-káma (infinitive gukáma, perfective -kámye)

1. to milk

Derived terms

• umukamyi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Japanese ? (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. kama

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kama).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. a kind of dagger

Declension

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit ??? (k??ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâ?ma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Hinduism) one of the four main goals of the material existence

Declension

References

• “kama” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “kama” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “kama” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-kámá (infinitive kukámá)

1. to milk

Swahili

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (kam?).

Conjunction

kama

1. as

   Synonym: mithili

2. if

   Synonym: ikiwa

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-kama (infinitive kukama)

1. to milk

Conjugation

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish cama (“bed”), from Late Latin, probably of Celtic or Iberian origin. Compare also camba.

Noun

kama

1. bed

   Synonyms: higaan, katre

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kama).

Noun

kama (definite accusative kamay?, plural kamalar)

1. wedge
2. dagger

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-kama^?

1. to brush hair

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.