cari

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See also: carí, cári, ca ri, cà ri, and çarı

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.ri/
  • Rhymes: -ari
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ri

Determiner

cari

  1. which

Pronoun

cari

  1. which, that, who

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic جَارِي (jārī).

Adjective

cari

  1. current (existing or occurring at the moment)
    Synonyms: hal-hazırkı, indiki

Further reading

  • “cari” in Obastan.com.

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

cari m (plural caris)

  1. curry (spice blend and dish)
    Synonym: curry

Further reading

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit चारिन् (cārin) via Malay cari.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.ri/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ri

Verb

cari (active mencari, passive dicari, perfective passive tercari)

  1. (transitive) to find; to look for; to seek
    Synonym: telusur

Conjugation

Conjugation of cari (meng-, transitive)
Root cari
Active Involuntary Passive Imperative Jussive
Active mencari tercari dicari cari carilah
Locative – – – – –
Causative / Applicative1 mencarikan tercarikan dicarikan carikan carikanlah
Causative
Locative – – – – –
Causative / Applicative1 mempercarikan terpercarikan dipercarikan percarikan percarikanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.ri/
  • Rhymes: -ari
  • Hyphenation: cà‧ri

Etymology 1

Noun

cari m pl (plural only)

  1. (people) Carians (ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

cari m pl

  1. masculine plural of caro

Noun

cari m pl

  1. plural of caro

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cari

  1. inflection of cariare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

cārī

  1. inflection of cārus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Latvian

Noun

cari m

  1. nominative/vocative plural of cars

Malay

Pronunciation

  • Audio (MY)(file)

Verb

cari (Jawi spelling چاري)

  1. to search, to look for, to seek

Derived terms

Further reading

Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

cari

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căra

Etymology 2

Noun

cari m

  1. plural of car

Etymology 3

Pronoun

cari

  1. Nonstandard form of care.

Spanish

Etymology

Short for cariño.

Noun

cari m or f by sense (plural caris)

  1. (colloquial) darling, dear, lover

Further reading

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جاری (cari), from Arabic جَارِي (jārī).

Adjective

cari

  1. current, prevailing, in effect
  2. usual, customary

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cari”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جاری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 635
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Venetian

Noun

cari m pl

  1. plural of caro

Welsh

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

cari

  1. second-person singular future colloquial of caru

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cari gari nghari chari
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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