different between karate vs boxing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?(??)?(?) (karate), from ?(??)?(?) (karate), from Okinawan ?? (t?d?, “Chinese hand”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?-rä?ti, IPA^(key): /k?????.ti/, /k?????.te?/
• Rhymes: -??ti

Noun

karate (uncountable)

1. An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.

Related terms

• karaoke
• karateka

Translations

Verb

karate (third-person singular simple present karates, present participle karateing, simple past and past participle karated)

1. (transitive, informal) To attack (somebody or something) with karate or similar techniques.

Anagrams

• ektara

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (karate), from ?? (karate), from Okinawan ?? (t?d?, “empty hand”).

Noun

karate (uncountable)

1. karate

Derived terms

Related terms

Czech

Noun

karate n

1. karate

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

Noun

karate

1. karate

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??, from Okinawan ?? (t?d?, “Chinese hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka??ra?.t?/
• Hyphenation: ka?ra?te
• Rhymes: -a?t?

Noun

karate n or m (uncountable)

1. karate (Japanese martial art)

Derived terms

• karateka
• karateslag
• karatetrap

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (karate).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

karate

1. (martial arts) karate

Declension

Anagrams

• kaaret, kertaa, ketara, ratkea, trakea

Icelandic

Etymology

From Japanese ??, from ?? (karate), from Okinawan ?? (t?d?, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?a?rat??/

Noun

karate n (genitive singular karates, no plural)

1. karate

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (???, karate, literally “the state of being empty-handed”), from Japanese ?? (???, karate, literally “Tang Dynasty; China+ hand”), from Okinawan ?? (??????, t?d?, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ra.te/
• Hyphenation: ka?ra?té

Noun

karate

1. (sports, martial arts) karate; an Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting

Related terms

Further reading

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

Japanese

Romanization

karate

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Japanese ??, via English karate.

Noun

karate m (definite singular karaten, uncountable)

1. karate

References

• “karate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “karate” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Japanese ??, via English karate.

Noun

karate m (definite singular karaten, uncountable)

1. karate

References

• “karate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (karate).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?ra.t?/

Noun

karate n (indeclinable)

1. karate

Derived terms

• (noun) karateka

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French karaté

Noun

karate n (uncountable)

1. karate

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Japanese ??, from ?? (karate), from Okinawan ?? (t?d?, “empty hand”).

Noun

karàte m (Cyrillic spelling ???????) (not inflected)

1. karate

Spanish

Alternative forms

kárate

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (karate), from ?? (karate), from Okinawan ?? (t?d?, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??ate/, [ka??a.t?e]

Noun

karate m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) karate

Hypernyms

• deporte de combate

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (karate)

Pronunciation

Noun

karate (n class, plural karate)

1. karate

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?ks??/
• (General American) enPR: bäks??ng, IPA^(key): /?b??ks??/
• Rhymes: -?ks??
• Hyphenation: box?ing

Etymology 1

From box (“to punch”) +? -ing.

Verb

boxing

1. present participle of box

Noun

boxing (uncountable)

1. (sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists, the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

Synonyms

• (sports): fisticuffs, pugilism, sparring

Hyponyms

• kickboxing
• shadowboxing

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• boxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• boxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From box +? -ing.

Noun

boxing (plural boxings)

1. Material used for making boxes or casing.
2. (construction) Casing.
3. (object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

Antonyms

• (programming): unboxing

Hyponyms

• autoboxing

Translations

Verb

boxing

1. present participle of box