kāra

kāra

1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of kārt

Borrowed from Sanskrit कार (kāra, “act, action”), कृ (kṛ, “to make”).

• IPA^(key): /su.hun/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Homophones: kara, kāra, khara
• Hyphenation: kā‧ra

kāra

1. making, doing

• kara

• → Balinese: ᬓᬵᬭ (kara)

kāra

1. song of praise

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

Inherited from Sanskrit कार (kāra); synchronically, as from the root of the verb karoti. The grammatical senses are likely to be borrowings of the Sanskrit cognate.

kāra m

1. deed
   1. service
   2. act of mercy
   3. worship, homage
2. doing, manner
3. production, application (esp. in compounds)
4. (grammar) item in question
   1. letter
   2. sound
   3. word

• kāranta (“final sound of word”)

• → Thai: การ (gaan)
• → Lü: ᦂᦱᧃ (k̇aan)
• → Lao: ການ (kān, “work”), → ການ (kān, “duty”)
• → Lao: ການ (kān, “action”)
  • → Lao: ການ (kān, “-ing”, prefix), → ການ (kān, “things to do with ...”, prefix)
• → Northern Thai: ᨠᩣ᩠ᩁ
• → Khmer: ការ (kaa)
• → Khmer: តុលាការ (tolaakaa)

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