different between karate vs kickboxing

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

Alternative forms

• kick-boxing

Etymology

A 1960s compound of kick +? boxing. Possibly coined as a Japanese anglicism (????), ???????? (kikkubokushingu) by Osamu Noguchi, to be reborrowed into English.

Noun

kickboxing (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) A hybrid martial art derived from Muay Thai, karate and especially boxing during the 1960s to 1970s; more generally, any stand-up combat sport that combines kicks and punches.

   The Japanese kickboxing gym, recently opened in the Thai capital, had been a great success (Black Belt Magazine, March 1973, p. 13)

Related terms

• boxing
• kick
• kickboxer

Translations

See also

• Muay Thai

Further reading

• Kickboxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From English kickboxing.

Noun

kickboxing m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) kickboxing (sport like boxing but allowing strikes with the feet)

   Synonym: kickboxe

Spanish

Etymology

From English kickboxing.

Noun

kickboxing m (uncountable)

1. kickboxing

Hypernyms

• deporte de combate