qara

• (Tabriz, also colloquial) qərə

From Proto-Turkic *kara. Cognate with Old Turkic (kara, “black”), Turkish kara, Chuvash хура (hura), etc.

• IPA^(key):
• (Tabriz) IPA^(key): ^[1][2]

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• Hyphenation: qa‧ra

qara (comparative daha qara, superlative ən qara, intensive qapqara)

1. black
2. (only in combination with the verb basmaq) scary hallucination; ghost; nightmare, especially one associated with sleep paralysis

   Synonym: qara-qura

   məni qara basdı ― I hallucinated; I imagined something scary and unreal

qara

1. black

qara (Northern dialect)

(imperative; singular; second)

1. to look at
2. to consider
3. to seek, to query
4. to care, to be in charge of

From Proto-Turkic *kara.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: qa‧ra

qara

1. black

• aq

From Proto-Turkic *kara.

• (Mansûrâbâdî, Talxâbî) IPA^(key):
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qara

1. black

   Antonym: hürün

qara (definite accusative qarañ, plural qaralar)

1. nightmare

• qaralığ (“dark”)
• qaralıq (“dark, darkness, blackness”)
• qarayâaz (“spring”)

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1971) Khalaj Materials, Indiana University, →ISBN
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

From Arabic قَرَأَ (qaraʔa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔa.ra/
• Homophones: qara’, qargħa (except archaically)

qara (imperfect jaqra, past participle moqri, verbal noun qari)

1. to read
2. to size up

qara

1. skin, leather, bark, peel, hide
2. agave, maguey; Agave americana

Not to be confused with q'ara.

qara

1. Latin spelling of кара (qara, “black”)