cara

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára).

Noun

cara f (plural caras)

1. (anatomy) face

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cara”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾa/,

Noun

cara f (plural cares)

1. (anatomy) face

   Synonym: rostru

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -aɾa

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Noun

cara f (plural cares)

1. face (front part of the head)
2. face (public image)
3. heads (side of a coin)
4. face, surface

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

cara

1. feminine singular of car

Further reading

• “cara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

cara

1. wound

Declension

Derived terms

• carağa tuz basmaq (“rub salt in the wound”)
• carasın teşmek (“scratch one's wound”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa/
• Homophones: caras, carât

Verb

cara

1. third-person singular past historic of carer

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Noun

cara f (plural caras)

1. face (of a person or animal)

   Synonym: rostro

2. expression; gesture
   • 2016, Malandrómeda, Encontro con !@#$%!! :

     Os anos que botei soñando con este momento
     Funche compoñendo un discurso co tempo.
     Na cabeza creaba imaxes claras
     Dos teus ollos, escoitándome, e das túas caras

     The years I passed dreaming with this moment
     I composed a discourse along the time.
     Inside my head I was making a clear image
     of your eyes, while you was listening to me, and of your gestures

   Synonyms: aceno, xesto

3. surface (face of a polyhedron)

Derived terms

Preposition

cara

1. to

   Synonym: para

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

Further reading

• “cara” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

References

• “cara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cara” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cara” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cara” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• acara (archaic)
• tjara (pre-1967)

Etymology

From Malay cara, from Classical Malay cara.

• From Javanese ꦕꦫ (cara, “manner, way, custom, style, language”), from Old Javanese cara, cāra, ācāra (“behaviour, conduct”), from Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “behaviour, good conduct; usage; custom; rule”), from Sanskrit चर् (car, “to move, to practice”). Doublet of acara, acaram, and ajar.
• Alternatively, from Persian چاره (čâra, “remedy; help; business; scheme; means, manner, mode”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.ra/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra
• Rhymes: -ra, -a

Noun

cara (plural cara-cara, first-person possessive caraku, second-person possessive caramu, third-person possessive caranya)

1. way
2. manner

Related terms

Further reading

• “cara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Alternative forms

• caraid (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Middle Irish cara (“friend, relation”) (compare Scottish Gaelic caraid, Manx carrey), from Old Irish carae (“friend, relation”), from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɾˠə/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾˠə/

Noun

cara m (genitive singular carad, nominative plural cairde)

1. friend

Declension

• Alternative genitive plural: carad (in certain phrases, otherwise archaic)

Derived terms

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 117
• Entries containing “cara” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cara” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: cà‧ra

Adjective

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

Noun

cara f (plural care)

1. female equivalent of caro

Anagrams

• -arca, Arca, arac, arca

Javanese

Romanization

cara

1. Romanization of ꦕꦫ

Latin

Etymology 1

Inflected form of cārus (“beloved”).

Adjective

cāra

1. inflection of cārus:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

cārā

1. ablative feminine singular of cārus

Etymology 2

Apparently borrowed from Ancient Greek κάρᾱ (kárā, “head, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n-, from the root *ḱerh₂- (“top, head, horn”). Cognate to Latin cornū, corvus, crabrō, cerebrum and cernuus.

Attested tenuously in a single late Latin glossary, where it is given as Greek, and then in medieval Latin documents from Spain. Appears in Romance languages with the meaning “face, facial features” (corresponding to Latin vultus).

Noun

cara f (genitive carae); first declension

2. (Late Latin, rare, glosses, Medieval Latin, uncertain) the head

   Synonym: caput

   • Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum, 4 587.8, (etymologising on Virgil's Georgics III, 269):

     'Gargara' quasi cara, caros, idest 'caput, capitis'

   • Antidotarium Bambergense, 19 :

     dente dolentibus et carā satis antidotī adpositum prōdest

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

See also

Further reading

• “cara” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “cara”, in Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, digitalized in Wörterbuchnetz des Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Version 01/21, 2021 June 2 (last accessed)
• cara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (1994) Koine und Diglossie (in German), Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 493

Latvian

Noun

cara m

1. genitive singular of cars

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “behaviour, good conduct; usage; custom; rule”), from Sanskrit चर् (car, “to move, to practice”).

Alternatively, from Persian چاره (čâra, “remedy; help; business; scheme; means, manner, mode”).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.rə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara, -ra, -a

Noun

cara (Jawi spelling چارا, plural cara-cara, informal 1st possessive caraku, 2nd possessive caramu, 3rd possessive caranya)

1. manner, means, method
2. style, fashion

Descendants

• > Indonesian: cara (inherited)

Further reading

• “cara” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• carait

Etymology

From Old Irish carae, from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarə/

Noun

cara

1. friend

   coscc carat ― a friend's advice

2. relative

Declension

Derived terms

• caratrad (“friendship, alliance”)

Descendants

Mutation

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Homophone: cāra
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit चर (cara, “wandering, walking, moving”).

Noun

cara

1. going
2. walking

Derived terms

Descendants

• >? Javanese: ꦕꦺꦴꦫꦺꦴ (coro)

Etymology 2

Noun

cara

1. Alternative spelling of cara, cāra, ācāra
2. Alternative spelling of cara, pacara, upacara, upacāra
3. Alternative spelling of caraṇa

Further reading

• "cara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Old Saxon

Noun

cara f

1. Alternative spelling of kara

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

cara m

1. act of walking about, act of frequenting
2. one who walks about, one who frequents
3. messenger, spy

Declension

Descendants

• → Thai: จร (jɔɔn, “to wander”)

Verb

cara

1. second-person singular imperative active of carati (“to walk”)

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “cara”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sa.ra/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ca‧ra

Noun

cara m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of car

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrh₂esn.

Noun

cara f (plural caras)

1. face

   Synonyms: face, rosto

2. heads (side of coin)

   Synonym: anverso

   Antonym: coroa

   cara ou coroa ― head or tails

3. (informal) resemblance, appearance (perceived characteristic of a person, object or situation)

   Synonym: pinta

   Ele tem cara de idiota. ― He looks like an idiot.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

Derived terms

Noun

cara m (plural caras)

1. (Brazil, informal) man, fellow, guy and any adult male

   Synonyms: bicho, camarada, cabra, tipo

Interjection

cara!

1. (Brazil, informal) man!; dude!

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

Etymology 2

From Latin cāra.

Adjective

cara

1. feminine singular of caro (“expensive, dear”)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:caro.

Sardinian

Etymology

From Spanish cara and/or Catalan cara, both from Late Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára).

Noun

cara f (plural caras)

1. face

References

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “kára”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Sassarese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkara/

Etymology 1

Likely from Spanish and/or Catalan cara, both from Late Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρᾱ (kárā), from Proto-Hellenic *kárahə, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérh₂sō (“top of the head/skull”), derived from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn, top”).

Noun

cara f (plural cari) (rare)

1. face

   Synonym: fàccia

   • 1957, Salvator Ruju, “Li candaréri [The candlesticks]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 144:

     Ma la più bèdda còsa, li baggiani
     di cara bruna, d’ócci risurani.

     But the most beautiful thing, the brown-faced young girls with smiling eyes.

     (literally, “But the most beautiful thing, the young girls of brown face, of smiling eyes.”)

2. countenance

   Synonyms: fàccia, chiza

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish cala, of unknown origin.

Alternative forms

• cala (Sedini)

Noun

cara f (plural cari)

1. inlet, cove

References

• Ugo Solinas (2016) Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 318
• Giosue Muzzo (1981) Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 55
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾa/
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧ra

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Noun

cara f (plural caras)

1. (anatomy) face (the front part of the head)

   Synonyms: rostro, haz

2. face (one's facial expression)
3. face (the frontal aspect of something)

   Synonyms: frente, fachada

4. (colloquial) gall, nerve (impudence)
5. (geometry) face (any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron)
6. side (of paper, a card, a coin)
7. heads (side of a coin)

   Synonym: anverso

   Antonyms: cruz, (Argentina) ceca

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

Further reading

• “cara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Venetian

Adjective

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

Welsh

Alternative forms

• câr (literary, third-person singular present/future)
• caraf (first-person singular future)
• cariff (colloquial, third-person singular future)
• carith (colloquial, third-person singular future)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːra/, /ˈkara/

Verb

cara

1. inflection of caru:
   1. first-person singular future colloquial
   2. third-person singular present indicative/future literary
   3. second-person singular imperative

Mutation