karani

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili karani.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kàɾáníꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into njata class which includes njata, gĩkabu, gĩtara, ithanwa, kĩihũri, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on. Clements (1984) classifies this term into “HLHL class” corresponding to Armstrong's njata and ðiimbo classes (e.g. itũũra), and Benson's disyllabic 7 and 8 (e.g. matũũra (“plural of itũũra”), thani), together with matũũra.[3]

Noun

karani class 12 (plural tũrani)

  1. clerk, secretary

References
  1. “karani” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 369. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. Clements, George N. (1984). "Principles of tone assignment in Kikuyu." In Clements, G.N. and J.A. Goldsmith (eds.) Autosegmental studies in Bantu tone, pp. 281–339. Dordrecht: Mouton de Gruyter; Foris Publications. →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaˈra.ɲi/

Participle

karani

  1. virile nominative/vocative plural of karany

Purepecha

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaˈrani/

Verb

karani

  1. (obsolete) paint
  2. write

Derived terms

References
  • Gilberti, Maturino (1559) Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan (in Spanish), Iuan Pablos Bressano, page 10v: “Carani. eſcriuir o pintar.”
  • Gylberti, Maturino (1559) Aqui comiença el Vocabulario enla lengua Castellana y Mechuacana (in Spanish), Mexico: Iuan Pablos Bressano, page 83v: “Eſcriuir como quiera. carani.”
  • Gylberti, Maturino (1559) Aqui comiença el Vocabulario enla lengua Castellana y Mechuacana (in Spanish), Mexico: Iuan Pablos Bressano, page 140r: “Pintar. carani. atani.”
  • [Instituto Lingüístico de Verano] (1975) Frases sencillas, tarasco-español‎ (in Spanish), third edition, page 14: “karáni”
  • Lagunas, Iuan Baptista de (1574) Dictionarito breue y compendioso en la lẽgua de Michuacan (in Spanish), Mexico: Pedro Balli, page 39: “Carani, que es eſcreuir”
  • Lathrop, Maxwell (2007) Vocabulario del idioma purépecha‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 7, 26: “karani”

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَرَّانِيّ‎ (karrāniyy).

Noun

karani (ma class, plural makarani)

  1. clerk
  2. secretary

Descendants
  • → Kikuyu: karani
  • → Malagasy: [Term?]
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