different between kart vs karst

English

Alternative forms

• cart

Noun

kart (plural karts)

1. A go-cart.

Verb

kart (third-person singular simple present karts, present participle karting, simple past and past participle karted)

1. (intransitive) To ride in a go-cart.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German karte, from Old French carte, from Latin charta (“paper”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s, “sheet of paper; book”). Cognate with German Karte.

Noun

kart f (plural kartn)

1. (Luserna) card

Derived terms

• postkart

References

• “kart” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English kart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?(?)rt/
• Hyphenation: kart

Noun

kart m (plural karts)

1. go-cart, kart

Derived terms

• kartbaan
• karten

Hungarian

Etymology

kar +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?rt]
• Hyphenation: kart

Noun

kart

1. accusative singular of kar

Italian

Noun

kart m (invariable)

1. go-kart

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) kartõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *karttadak.

Verb

kart

1. avoid

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/, /ka?t/
• Rhymes: -a?, -a?t
• Hyphenation: kart
• Homophone: carte

Etymology 1

Noun

kart m (definite singular karten, indefinite plural kart or karter, definite plural kartene)

1. unripe fruit or berries

Etymology 2

Noun

kart n (definite singular kartet, indefinite plural kart or karter, definite plural karta or kartene)

1. a map

Derived terms

References

• “kart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

kart m (definite singular karten, indefinite plural kartar, definite plural kartane)

1. unripe fruit or berries

Etymology 2

Noun

kart n (definite singular kartet, indefinite plural kart, definite plural karta)

1. a map

Derived terms

• bykart
• plankart
• sjøkart

References

• “kart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

kart m (plural karts)

1. go-cart (small motor vehicle used for racing)

Spanish

Noun

kart m (plural karts)

1. go-cart (small vehicle used for racing)

Swedish

Noun

kart n

1. unripe fruit

Anagrams

• rakt

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *k?rï (“old person”). Cognate with Kazakh ???? (qart, “old man”), Kyrgyz ???? (kart, “old, old man”), Azerbaijani qart, etc.

Adjective

kart

1. hoary, old

Derived terms

• kartla?mak (“to get old”)

Synonyms

• ya?l?, ihtiyar

Etymology 2

From French carte.

Noun

kart (definite accusative kart?, plural kartlar)

1. card

Declension

West Flemish

Etymology

Borrowed from French quart.

Noun

kart n

1. quarter, one of four (equal) parts
2. A quarter of an hour, i.e. 15 minutes

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karst. The German term and the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst Plateau) have a common origin in Italo-Dalmatian carsus (cf. Italian carso); the metathesis in the Slovene term precludes German borrowing from Slovene.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: käst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• (US) enPR: kärst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• Rhymes: -??(r)st

  Homophones: cast, caste (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

karst (plural karsts)

1. (geology) A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
   • 1978, M. M. Sweeting, “The Karst of Kweilin, Southern China,” The Geographical Journal, vol. 144, no. 2, p. 200:

     In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.

   • 2009, Katherine Harmon, “Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008,” ScientificAmerican.com, May 29, 2009:

     The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.

Derived terms

• karstology
• thermokarst
• glaciokarst
• paleokarst

Translations

Further reading

• karst on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Stark, Trask, karts, skart, stark

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rst/
• Hyphenation: karst
• Rhymes: -?rst

Noun

karst m (plural karsten)

1. (geology) karst (terrain with caves formed by limestone dissolution by underground drainage)

Derived terms

• karstbron

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?st/

Noun

karst m (plural karsts)

1. (geology) karst

Further reading

• “karst” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Noun

karst n (genitive singular karsts, no plural)

1. (geology) karst

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• carst

Etymology

From German der Karst, name of a limestone region in Slovenia.

Noun

karst m (plural karstes)

1. (geology) karst

   Synonym: malpaís