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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (kárman, “act, action, performance”), first attested in English in 1827.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kär?-m?, IPA^(key): /?k??m?/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?k??.m?]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?k??.m?]
  • (Indian English) IPA^(key): [?k??m(?)]
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?
• Hyphenation: kar?ma
• Homophone: cama (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

karma (countable and uncountable, plural karmas)

1. (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism) The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
2. A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.
3. (uncommon) A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere.
   • 2001, Inside the Hits, page 307:

     That means everything from lighting to the vibes, the karma of the room.

   • 2006, Chase Sargent, From Buddy to Boss, page 219:

     How many times when you have been in a bar have you felt that a confrontation was building up, even without extensive verbal exchanges? Sometimes you can feel the karma or energy of a place change, and you should not ignore that

   • 2010, R.L. Roach, Irish Lie, page 135:

     On the way to Lancaster, which was about an hour and a half from Philly, John felt the karma.

4. (Internet, Reddit) A score assigned to a user of a discussion forum, indicating the popularity of their posts with other users.

Derived terms

• duskarma
• karmic
• instant karma

Translations

References

• karma at OneLook Dictionary Search
• karma in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• karma in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Karam, Makar, krama, makar

Dutch

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (kárman, “act, action, performance”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “via English?”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?r.m?/
• Hyphenation: kar?ma
• Rhymes: -?rm?

Noun

karma n (uncountable)

1. karma

Derived terms

• karmisch

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (kárman, “act, action, performance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?karma/
• Hyphenation: kar?ma

Adjective

karma (accusative singular karman, plural karmaj, accusative plural karmajn)

1. karmic

Related terms

• karmo (“karma”)

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (kárman, “act, action, performance”). Appears as headword on p. 341 of the Pieni Tietosanakirja ("Little Encyclopedia") [1] from 1925-28, published by Otava, Helsinki.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

karma

1. karma

Declension

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?rm?]
• Hyphenation: kar?ma
• Rhymes: -m?

Etymology 1

karom (“claw”) +? -a (possessive suffix)

Noun

karma

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of karom

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (kárman, “act, action, performance”).

Noun

karma

1. karma

Declension

Derived terms

• karmikus

References

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?arma/
• Rhymes: -arma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (kárman, “act, action, performance”).

Noun

karma n (genitive singular karma, no plural)

1. karma

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

karma

1. indefinite accusative plural of karmur
2. indefinite genitive plural of karmur

Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (karma), ?????? (karman), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kárma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kárma, from Proto-Indo-European *k?er- (“to do, make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /karma/
• Hyphenation: kar?ma

Noun

karma

1. karma,
   1. (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism) The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
   2. A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.

Related terms

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (karman, “act, action, performance”), from the root ?? (k?, “to do, make”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *k?er- (“to do, make, build”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kar.ma/
• Rhymes: -arma
• Hyphenation: kàr?ma

Noun

karma m (invariable)

1. karma

Derived terms

• karmico

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kar.ma/

Etymology 1

Noun

karma f

1. fodder

Usage notes

The term karma is used for pets, whereas pasza is used for other domesticated animals such as livestock or poultry.

Declension

Synonyms

• pasza

Related terms

• karmi?
• pokarm

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (kárman, “act, action, performance”).

Noun

karma f

1. karma

Declension

Synonyms

• karman

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

karma m (plural karmas)

1. Alternative spelling of carma

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kârma/
• Hyphenation: kar?ma

Noun

k?rma m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. karma

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (kárman, “act, action, performance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?ma/, [?ka?.ma]

Noun

karma m (plural karmas)

1. karma

Related terms

• kármico

Further reading

• “karma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Turkish kar- (“to mix”) + -ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??ma/

Noun

karma (definite accusative karmay?, plural karmalar)

1. mixing

Declension

Adjective

karma (comparative daha karma, superlative en karma)

1. mixed

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.ma/

Verb

karma

1. second-person singular negative imperative of karmak

Etymology 3

Probably from English karma, ultimately from Sanskrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.ma/

Noun

karma (definite accusative karmay?, plural karmalar)

1. karma

Declension

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.