كار

See also: کار, گاز, and گار

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Persian کار (kâr).

Pronunciation

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /kɑːr/

Noun

كار • (kār) m (Kuwait)

1. busy person

   ما كاري ― mā kāri ― I'm not busy

Derived terms

• اشكار (eškār)

References

• الرشيد, خالد عبد القادر عبد العزيز (2012) “كار”, in موسوعة اللهجة الكويتية (in Arabic), page 531

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology 1

From French gare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːr/

Noun

كار • (gār) f (plural كارات (gārāt))

1. train station

   Synonym: (commoner) محطة (maḥaṭṭa, mḥaṭṭa)

Alternative forms

• ڭار (gār), گار (gār)

Etymology 2

From French car.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːr/

Noun

كار • (kār) m (plural كيران (kīrān))

1. interurban bus

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian کار (kâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /caɾ/

Noun

كار • (kâr)

1. (poetic, rare) business, negotium, work, affair, scheme

   Synonym: ایش (iş)

2. profit, gain, earnings

   Synonym: قازانچ (kazanç)

3. (trailing part in compounds) doer, maker, somebody having the job of

   Synonym: ـچی (-çi)

   خدمت كار ― hidmet-kâr, hizmet-kâr ― domestic, do-all

Derived terms

• صنعتكار (sanʼatkâr, “artist; artisan”)
• كارسز (kârsız, “profitless, fruitless”)

Related terms

• كار كذار (kargüzar, “skillful”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kâr
• → Armenian: քյար (kʻyar)
• → Bulgarian: кяр (kjar)
• → Macedonian: ќар (ḱar)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ćȃr/ћа̑р
• → Crimean Tatar: kâr

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1004b