chara

See also: Chara, Chára, and Chará

English

Etymology 1

From translingual/New Latin Chara.

Noun

chara (plural charas)

1. A green alga of the genus Chara.

   Synonym: muskgrass

Etymology 2

Noun

chara (plural charas)

1. Shortened form of charabanc
   • 2013, Alf Townsend, The Charabanc: The Early Days of Motorised Coach Travel:

     The workers didn't get paid for any holidays, so a day out in a 'chara' was all they got.

Anagrams

• achar

Eastern Bontoc

Noun

chara

1. blood

Iban

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃara/
• Rhymes: -ra, -a
• Hyphenation: cha‧ra

Noun

chara

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

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈxɑɾˠə/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈxaɾˠə/

Noun

chara

1. Lenited form of cara.

Japanese

Romanization

chara

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちゃら

Latin

Etymology

Compare English caraway.

Noun

chara f (genitive charae); first declension

1. An unknown kind of root, perhaps wild cabbage or the root of caraway
   • (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili, Liber III, 48:

     Est autem genus radicis inventum ab eis, qui fuerant vacui ab operibus, quod appellatur chara, quod admixtum lacte multum inopiam levabat.

     "There was a sort of root called chara, discovered by the troops which served under Valerius."

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	chara	charae
Genitive	charae	charārum
Dative	charae	charīs
Accusative	charam	charās
Ablative	charā	charīs
Vocative	chara	charae

References

• “chara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Liangmai Naga

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɑːrə/

Noun

chara

1. soul
2. bone

Middle Irish

Noun

chara

1. Lenited form of cara.

Occitan

Noun

chara f (plural charas) (Limousin)

1. face (front part of the head)

Spanish

Noun

chara f (plural charas)

1. Any of a number of jays of the Corvidae family.

Derived terms

• chara nuquiblanca
• chara papán
• chara pinta
• chara yucateca

 

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈχara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈχaːra/, /ˈχara/

Verb

chara

1. Aspirate mutation of cara.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cara	gara	nghara	chara
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.