English

Proper noun

Kara

1. A female given name.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Kara

1. The Papua New Guinean language which has the ISO code 'leu', formerly called Lemakot.

Etymology 3

From Korean 加耶 (伽倻). The Middle Chinese pronunciation is thought to have been closer to Kaya,^[1] but /kaɾa/ (Kara) is thought to have been the oldest pronunciation.^[2]

Proper noun

Kara

1. The language presumed to have been spoken by the Gaya confederacy in southern Korea, thought by some scholars to be attested from thirteen placenames.

Etymology 4

Proper noun

Kara

1. The Omotic language which has the ISO code 'kxh' and which is also sometimes called "Karo".

Etymology 5

From Sanskrit கர.

Proper noun

Kara

1. The twenty-fifth year of the 60 year cycle of the Tamil calendar.

Anagrams

• arak
• rak'a

References

1. ↑ Christopher I. Beckwith, Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives (BRILL, 2007), page 40, n. 27
2. ↑ Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2009: ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2), page 105

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaːra/

  Rhymes: -aːra

  Homophone: kara

Proper noun

Kara f

1. A female given name

Declension

Turkish

Proper noun

Kara

1. A male given name

English

Noun

kara ‎(plural karas)

1. (Sikhism) The bangle worn by Sikhs, to remind the wearer to do God's work, and one of the five Ks.

Anagrams

• arak
• rak'a

Cornish

Etymology

Cognate with Breton karout and Welsh caru.

Verb

kara ‎(irregular)

1. to love

Conjugation

Mutation

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian caro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾa/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ra

Adjective

kara ‎(accusative singular karan, plural karaj, accusative plural karajn)

1. dear

Derived terms

• karulino
• karulo

Finnish

Noun

kara

1. A dried branch, rib of a leaf or other similar dried part of a plant.
2. A core (uneaten part) of an apple (also omenankara) or of a similar fruit.
3. The chuck of a drill or lathe.
4. A leftover piece from injection molding.
5. A piece of wood, partly inserted inside the wall, that supports the frame of a window or door.
6. Short form of koskikara (bird of the genus Cinclus).
7. The game of carom billiards or carambole.

Declension

Synonyms

• (dry branch) karahka

Anagrams

• arka

Gothic

Romanization

kara

1. Romanization of 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰

Hungarian

Etymology

kar +‎ -a ‎(“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒrɒ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ra

Noun

kara

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of kar

Declension

Ido

Adjective

kara

1. dear

Japanese

Romanization

kara

1. rōmaji reading of から

Latvian

Noun

kara m

1. genitive singular form of karš

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Latin carrus, from Gaulish karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros ‎(“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-o-, from *ḱers- ‎(“to run”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkara/

Noun

kara f ‎(diminutive karka)

1. cart, wagon

Declension

Mapudungun

Noun

kara ‎(using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. city

Synonyms

• 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

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kar-, perhaps from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Latin garriō ‎(“chatter”). Cognate with Old English ċearu, Old High German chara ‎(“grief”), Old Norse kǫr ‎(“sickbed”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰 ‎(kara).

Noun

kara f

1. grief, sorrow
2. anxiety

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkara/

Noun

kara f

1. punishment
2. penalty, fine

   kara śmierci — capital punishment

Declension

Noun

kara

1. genitive singular of karo
2. nominative plural of karo
3. accusative plural of karo
4. vocative plural of karo

Rapa Nui

Noun

kara

1. wing

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈɾɑ/

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰴𐰺𐰀 ‎(kara, “dark, black; land; north”), from Proto-Turkic *kara ‎(“dark, black”).

Adjective

kara ‎(comparative daha kara, superlative en kara)

1. black, dark

   kara büyü‎ ― black magic

2. brunette
3. dark skinned
4. (figuratively) evil, wicked, villainous
5. (figuratively, archaic) courageous

Declension

Synonyms

• siyah

Antonyms

• ak

Noun

kara ‎(definite accusative karayı, plural karalar)

1. (colours) black
2. land, field

   kara göründü!‎

   land ahoy!

3. (archaic) north

Declension

Synonyms

• (black): siyah
• (north): kuzey

Antonyms

• (black, north): ak
• (land): deniz
• (north): güney

See also

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Veps

Noun

kara

1. bay, inlet

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “бухта”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [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)