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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

Noun

kars

1. plural of kar

Anagrams

• AKRs, Sark, arks, ksar, sark, skar

Danish

Noun

kars n

1. indefinite genitive singular of kar

Latgalian

Noun

kars m

1. war

Swedish

Noun

kars

1. indefinite genitive singular of kar
2. indefinite genitive plural of kar

Anagrams

• Rask, arks, rask, skar

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjæ??/

Noun

kars m

1. small box, box of birch bark, net or tows (fine tree roots) to carry fish in
2. bag

Derived terms

• fiskkars (“mesh bag for fish”)
• smörkars (“butter dish”)
• strömmingskars (“bag of nets or birch bark to carry herring”)