カラオケ

Japanese

Alternative spelling
空オケ (rare)

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Japanese 空

Ancient Greek ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai)

Ancient Greek -τρᾰ (-tra)

Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra)bor.

Latin orchēstrabor.

English orchestrabor.

Japanese オーケストラ

Japanese カラオケ

Blend of 空 (kara, “empty”) +‎ オーケストラ (ōkesutora, “orchestra”, itself from English orchestra).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) カラオケ (Heiban – )^[2]
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Noun

カラオケ • (karaoke)

karaoke: popular music remixed or arranged to remove the lead vocals, and played back for entertainment, allowing others to sing the lead part
(broadcasting industries) a method of preparing recorded material for a music performer (a singer or instrument player) and playing it back when the performer performs
a karaoke machine, a music playback machine that plays popular tunes with the lead vocals audio missing or removed, and often with a video screen showing the song lyrics highlighted in time with the music

Derived terms

カラオケボックス (karaoke bokkusu)

Descendants

→ Albanian: karaoke
→ Arabic: كَارَاوُكِي (karawoki)
→ Armenian: կարաոկե (karaoke)
→ Belarusian: карао́ке (karaókje)
→ Bengali: কারাওকে (karaōke)
→ Bulgarian: карао́ке (karaóke)
→ Cantonese: 卡拉OK (kaa1 laa1 ou1 kei1)
→ Catalan: karaoke
→ Czech: karaoke
→ Danish: karaoke
→ Dutch: karaoke
→ English: karaoke
- → Welsh: carioci
→ Esperanto: karaoko
→ Estonian: karaoke
→ Finnish: karaoke
→ French: karaoke
→ Georgian: კარაოკე (ḳaraoḳe)
→ German: Karaoke
→ Greek: καραόκε (karaóke)
→ Hakka: 卡拉OK (khà-la-o-khie)
→ Hebrew: קַרְיוֹקִי (qaryóqi)
→ Hindi: कराओके (karāoke)
→ Hungarian: karaoke
→ Indonesian: karaoke
→ Italian: karaoke
→ Kazakh: караоке (karaoke)
→ Khmer: ខារ៉ាអូខេ (khaaraaʼoukhee)
→ Korean: 가라오케 (garaoke)
→ Kyrgyz: караоке (karaoke)
→ Lao: ກາຣາໂອເກະ (kā rā ʼō ke)
→ Latvian: karaoke
→ Lithuanian: karaokė
→ Macedonian: карао́ке (karaóke)
→ Malay: karaoke
→ Malayalam: കരോക്കി (karōkki)
→ Mandarin: 卡拉OK (kǎlā'ōukèi)
→ Min Nan: 卡拉OK (kha-lá-ó͘-khe)
→ Mongolian: караоке (karaoke), ᠺᠠᠷᠠᠣᠺᠧ (karaokē)
→ Norwegian:
Bokmål: karaoke
→ Persian: کارائوکه (kârâ'ôke), کارائوکی (kârâ'ōki)
→ Polish: karaoke
→ Portuguese: karaokê
→ Romanian: karaoke
→ Russian: карао́ке (karaóke)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: караоке

Latin script: karaoke
→ Slovak: karaoke
→ Slovene: karaoke
→ Spanish: karaoke
→ Swedish: karaoke
→ Tagalog: karaoke
→ Thai: คาราโอเกะ (kaa-raa-oo-gè)
→ Turkish: karaoke
→ Ukrainian: карао́ке (karaóke)
→ Urdu: کراوکی (karā'oke)
→ Vietnamese: caraôkê, karaoke

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[KDJ-1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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