kara

From Punjabi ਕੜਾ (kaṛā).

kara (plural karas)

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

• arak, rak'a

Cognate with Breton karout and Welsh caru.

kara (irregular)

1. to love

From Italian caro.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkara/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ra
• Rhymes: -ara

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

1. dear

kara

1. A dried branch, rib of a leaf or other similar dried part of a plant.

   Synonym: karahka

2. A core (uneaten part) of an apple or similar fruit.
3. The core of a pirn in a weaving shuttle.
4. The chuck of a drill or lathe.
5. A leftover piece from injection molding.
6. A piece of wood, partly inserted inside the wall, that supports the frame of a window or door.
7. Short form of koskikara (“bird of the genus Cinclus”).
8. The game of carom billiards or carambole.

• omenankara

• arka

kara

1. Romanization of 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰

kar +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

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

kara

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

kara

1. dear

kara

1. Rōmaji transcription of から

kara

1. black

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kara m

1. genitive singular form of karš

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkara/

kara f (diminutive karka)

1. cart, wagon

kara (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. city

• waria

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

kara (mutated form gara)

1. stone

• karene

kara n

1. definite plural of kar

kara n

1. definite plural of kar

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).

kara f

1. grief, sorrow
2. anxiety

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

kara

1. dark

• Whaley, Lindsay & Li, Fengxiang. (1998). The Suffix -Kan in Oroqen. Studies in Language. 22. 447-471. 10.1075/sl.22.2.06wha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ra/

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From Proto-Slavic *kara.

kara f

1. punishment
2. penalty, fine

   kara śmierci ― capital punishment, death penalty

kara

1. inflection of karo:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative, accusative, and vocative plural

kara

1. feminine nominative and vocative singular of kary

• kara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

kara

1. wing

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

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈɾɑ/

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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

• → Adyghe: къарэ (qāră)

• siyah

• ak

kara (definite accusative karayı, plural karalar)

1. black
2. land, field

   kara göründü!

   land ahoy!

3. (archaic) north

• (black): siyah
• (north): kuzey

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

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

kara

1. bay, inlet

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “бухта”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

kara

1. country
2. stone

• 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)