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Translingual

Symbol

kar

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Karenic languages.

English

Noun

kar (plural kars)

  1. (marketing, in product names) Deliberate misspelling of car.
    • 1989, International Shrine Clowns Association, page 26:
      In the fifties the need for a Klown vehicle was evident and a King Midget Frame was acquired and a Klown Kar was added.

Anagrams

Achi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare with other Mayan – Quichean–Mamean K'iche' kar

Pronunciation

Noun

kar

  1. fish (plural) karaiib'

References

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kar, from Middle Dutch carre, from Latin carrus or the mediaeval variant carra, from Gaulish carros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kar/
  • (file)

Noun

kar (plural karre, diminutive karretjie)

  1. cart
  2. car, automobile

Synonyms

Derived terms

Albanian

Etymology

From Romani kar, from Sanskrit *काट (kāṭa).

Pronunciation

Noun

kar m (plural kar, definite kari, definite plural karet)

  1. (anatomy) penis
  2. (slang, vulgar) cock, dick

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “kar”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 170

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian کر (kar).

Pronunciation

Adjective

kar (comparative daha kar, superlative ən kar)

  1. deaf
  2. (phonetics, of a consonant) voiceless
    kar samitlərvoiceless consonants

Antonyms

Breton

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *kar, from Proto-Celtic *karants.

Noun

kar m (plural kerent)

  1. relative
Mutation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kar

  1. Hard mutation of gar.
Mutation

Chuukese

Adjective

kar

  1. hot

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

kar m inan

  1. cirque

Declension

Further reading

  • kar in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • kar in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse ker.

Pronunciation

Noun

kar n (singular definite karret, plural indefinite kar)

  1. vessel
  2. trough
  3. tub

Inflection

Derived terms

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch carre, from Latin carrus or the mediaeval variant carra, from Gaulish carros. Doublet of ros.

Noun

kar f (plural karren, diminutive karretje n)

  1. A cart, vehicle on wheels without motor.
  2. Any wheeled vehicle, in particular a car or truck.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: kar
  • Caribbean Hindustani: gári
  • Javanese: ꦏꦲꦂ (kahar)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kar

  1. verb form of karren

Elfdalian

Noun

kar n

  1. tub, bathtub

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *karï (forearm) via Bulgar, compare Chuvash хур (hur, span).

Noun

kar (plural karok)

  1. arm (upper limb of a human or animal)
  2. lever (a rod with one end fixed, which can be pulled to trigger or control a mechanical device)
  3. crank (bent piece of an axle used to impart a rotation to a mechanical device)
  4. (only with the suffix -ban (in), often preceded by (good) or rossz (bad)) condition (the state or quality; the health status of a medical patient)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative kar karok
accusative kart karokat
dative karnak karoknak
instrumental karral karokkal
causal-final karért karokért
translative karrá karokká
terminative karig karokig
essive-formal karként karokként
essive-modal
inessive karban karokban
superessive karon karokon
adessive karnál karoknál
illative karba karokba
sublative karra karokra
allative karhoz karokhoz
elative karból karokból
delative karról karokról
ablative kartól karoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
karé karoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
karéi karokéi
Possessive forms of kar
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. karom karjaim
2nd person sing. karod karjaid
3rd person sing. karja karjai
1st person plural karunk karjaink
2nd person plural karotok karjaitok
3rd person plural karjuk karjaik
Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions

Etymology 2

From Latin chorus.

Noun

kar (plural karok)

  1. faculty (scholarly staff at colleges or universities; usually preceded by the adjective denoting the members, e.g. tanári kar (teaching staff))
  2. faculty (department at a university, e.g. that of arts, science, or law)
    Meronym: tanszék
  3. a group of people performing together (choir, chorus, chorus line, ensemble, etc.)
    Hyponyms: énekkar, tánckar, zenekar
Usage notes

These two nouns are almost completely homonymous except for the third person single-object possessive forms and all multiple-object possessive forms, the first one (with the sense "arm") having an extra -j- between the root and the possessive ending.

Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative kar karok
accusative kart karokat
dative karnak karoknak
instrumental karral karokkal
causal-final karért karokért
translative karrá karokká
terminative karig karokig
essive-formal karként karokként
essive-modal
inessive karban karokban
superessive karon karokon
adessive karnál karoknál
illative karba karokba
sublative karra karokra
allative karhoz karokhoz
elative karból karokból
delative karról karokról
ablative kartól karoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
karé karoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
karéi karokéi
Possessive forms of kar
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. karom karaim
2nd person sing. karod karaid
3rd person sing. kara karai
1st person plural karunk karaink
2nd person plural karotok karaitok
3rd person plural karuk karaik
Derived terms
Compound words

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “karı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 644-645
  2. ^ Róna-Tas, András; Berta, Árpád; Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume I, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 492-494
  3. ^ kar in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  4. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996), “kar”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 361

Further reading

  • (arm, lever): kar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (faculty; ensemble): kar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Anagrams

Iban

Pronunciation

Noun

kar

  1. map

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Danish kar, from Old Norse ker. Doublet of ker. Cognate with Swedish kar.

Noun

kar n (genitive singular kars, nominative plural kör)

  1. tub
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English car.

Noun

kar n (genitive singular kars, nominative plural kör)

  1. (colloquial, North America) car, automobile
Declension
Synonyms
Related terms

K'iche'

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Noun

kar

  1. fish

Kaingang

Pronunciation

Adjective

kar

  1. every; all

Latvian

Verb

kar

  1. inflection of kārt:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person plural present indicative
    3. second-person singular imperative
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of kārt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of kārt

Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kar

  1. they

Northern Kurdish

Noun

kar m

  1. work, labor

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Noun

kar m (definite singular karen, indefinite plural karer, definite plural karene)

  1. a bloke, chap, fellow, guy, man
Usage notes
  • Between 1938 and 1983, kara was a co-standard definite plural form. The form is now considered dialectal. This morphological peculiarity was shared with a choice other masculine nouns: gamp, gutt, hest, and tupp.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Danish kar, from Old Norse ker, in the sense of blood vessels influenced by Latin vas.

Noun

kar n (definite singular karet, indefinite plural kar, definite plural kara or karene)

  1. a container, vessel, tub, vat
  2. a (fish) trap (e.g. for salmon)
  3. a pier (for a bridge)
  4. a vessel, artery, tube in a body or plant
Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of kall.

Noun

kar m (definite singular karen, indefinite plural karar, definite plural karane)

  1. a bloke, chap, fellow, guy, man
    Synonyms: fyr, mann, type

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ker, from Proto-Germanic *kazą. Doublet of kjer.

Noun

kar n (definite singular karet, indefinite plural kar, definite plural kara)

  1. a vessel, tub (container of liquid or other substance)
Derived terms

References

Anagrams

Polish

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Kar, from Middle High German kar, from Old High German char, from Proto-Germanic *kazą.

Noun

kar m inan

  1. cirque, combe, corrie, cwm
    Synonyms: cyrk lodowcowy, kocioł
Declension
Derived terms
adjective

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kar f

  1. genitive plural of kara

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kar n

  1. genitive plural of karo

Further reading

  • kar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit *काट (kāṭa). Cognate with Hindi काढ़ (kāṛh), Gujarati કાડ (kāḍ), Sindhi 𑊺𑋠𑋊𑋣 (kāṛu), Marathi 𑘎𑘰𑘚 (kāḍ).

Noun

kar m

  1. penis

Descendants

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*kāṭa2”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 154
  2. 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “kar¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 135b
  3. ^ Andrea Scala (2020), “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras; Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 92

Sumerian

Romanization

kar

  1. Romanization of 𒋼𒀀 (kar)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ker, from Proto-Germanic *kazą.

Pronunciation

Noun

kar n

  1. tub
  2. bathtub
    Synonym: badkar

Declension

Declension of kar 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative kar karet kar karen
Genitive kars karets kars karens

Derived terms

References

Anagrams

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English car.

Noun

kar

  1. car

Synonyms

Turkish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish قار (kar, snow), from Proto-Turkic *kār, *Kiār (snow). Compare Old Turkic 𐰴𐰺 (kar, snow), Proto-Mongolic *karig (strong coldness).

Noun

kar (definite accusative karı, plural karlar)

  1. snow
Declension
Inflection
Nominative kar
Definite accusative karı
Singular Plural
Nominative kar karlar
Definite accusative karı karları
Dative kara karlara
Locative karda karlarda
Ablative kardan karlardan
Genitive karın karların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular karım karlarım
2nd singular karın karların
3rd singular karı karları
1st plural karımız karlarımız
2nd plural karınız karlarınız
3rd plural karları karları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular karımı karlarımı
2nd singular karını karlarını
3rd singular karını karlarını
1st plural karımızı karlarımızı
2nd plural karınızı karlarınızı
3rd plural karlarını karlarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular karıma karlarıma
2nd singular karına karlarına
3rd singular karına karlarına
1st plural karımıza karlarımıza
2nd plural karınıza karlarınıza
3rd plural karlarına karlarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular karımda karlarımda
2nd singular karında karlarında
3rd singular karında karlarında
1st plural karımızda karlarımızda
2nd plural karınızda karlarınızda
3rd plural karlarında karlarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular karımdan karlarımdan
2nd singular karından karlarından
3rd singular karından karlarından
1st plural karımızdan karlarımızdan
2nd plural karınızdan karlarınızdan
3rd plural karlarından karlarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular karımın karlarımın
2nd singular karının karlarının
3rd singular karının karlarının
1st plural karımızın karlarımızın
2nd plural karınızın karlarınızın
3rd plural karlarının karlarının
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular karım karlarım
2nd singular karsın karlarsın
3rd singular kar
kardır
karlar
karlardır
1st plural karız karlarız
2nd plural karsınız karlarsınız
3rd plural karlar karlardır
Derived terms
See also

Further reading

  • kar”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Etymology 2

Verb

kar

  1. second-person singular imperative of karmak

Uzbek

Etymology

From Persian کر (kar).

Adjective

kar (comparative karroq, superlative eng kar)

  1. deaf

Derived terms

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian kere, from Proto-Germanic *kuziz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (to test, taste, choose).

Noun

kar c (plural karren)

  1. choice

Derived terms

Further reading

  • kar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yurok

Pronunciation

Noun

kar

  1. key

Zazaki

Noun

kar

  1. (grammar) verb

Synonyms