karate

See also: kárate, karaté, karatè, Karate, and karatē

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手 (からて) (karate), from 唐手 (からて) (karate), from Okinawan 唐手 (tūdī, “Chinese hand”).

Pronunciation
  • enPR: kə-räʹti, IPA(key): /kəˈɹɑː.ti/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːti

Noun

karate (uncountable)

  1. An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.

Translations

Verb

karate (third-person singular simple present karates, present participle karateing, simple past and past participle karated)

  1. (transitive, informal) To attack (somebody or something) with karate or similar techniques.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手 (karate), from 唐手 (karate), from Okinawan 唐手 (tūdī, “empty hand”).

Noun

karate (uncountable)

  1. karate

Derived terms

Czech

Noun

karate n

  1. karate

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手.

Noun

karate

  1. karate

Declension
Declension of karate
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative karate karaten karate karateene
genitive karates karatens karates karateenes

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 空手 (karate).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑrɑte/, [ˈkɑrɑt̪e̞]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧te

Noun

karate

  1. (martial arts) karate

Declension
Inflection of karate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative karate —
genitive karaten —
partitive karatea —
illative karateen —
singular plural
nominative karate —
accusative nom. karate —
gen. karaten
genitive karaten —
partitive karatea —
inessive karatessa —
elative karatesta —
illative karateen —
adessive karatella —
ablative karatelta —
allative karatelle —
essive karatena —
translative karateksi —
instructive — —
abessive karatetta —
comitative — —

Anagrams

Icelandic

Etymology

From Japanese 空手, from 唐手 (karate), from Okinawan 唐手 (tūdī, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰaːratɛː/

Noun

karate n (genitive singular karates, no plural)

  1. karate

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 空手 (からて, karate, literally “the state of being empty-handed”), from Japanese 唐手 (からて, karate, literally “Tang Dynasty; China+ hand”), from Okinawan 唐手 (トゥーディー, tūdī, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ka.ra.te/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧té

Noun

karate

  1. (sports) karate, an Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.

Further reading

Japanese

Romanization

karate

  1. Rōmaji transcription of からて

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Japanese 空手, via English karate.

Noun

karate m (definite singular karaten, uncountable)

  1. karate

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Japanese 空手, via English karate.

Noun

karate m (definite singular karaten, uncountable)

  1. karate

References

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese 空手 (karate).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaˈra.tɛ/
  • audio(file)

Noun

karate n (indeclinable)

  1. karate

Derived terms

Further reading
  • karate in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Japanese 空手, from 唐手 (karate), from Okinawan 唐手 (tūdī, “empty hand”).

Noun

karàte m (Cyrillic spelling кара̀те) (not inflected)

  1. karate

Spanish

Alternative forms

kárate

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手 (karate), from 唐手 (karate), from Okinawan 唐手 (tūdī, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ka̠ˈɾa̠.te̞]

Noun

karate m (uncountable)

  1. (martial arts) karate
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