Chara

See also: chara, Chára, and Chará

Translingual

Chara globularis

Etymology

Latin chara (“unknown kind of root”)

Proper noun

Chara f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Characeae – the stoneworts and related green algae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Charophyta - superphylum; Charophyta - phylum; Charophyceae - class; Charales - order; Characeae - family; Chareae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): For species see Chara at World Register of Marine Species

References

• Chara (alga) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chara (Plantae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chara on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chara at AlgaeBase
• Chara at World Register of Marine Species
• Chara at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Chara at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Chara at Paleobiology Database

English

Proper noun

Chara (countable and uncountable, plural Charas)

1. (countable) A surname.
   1. A surname from Spanish Chará.
   2. A surname from Slovak Chára or Czech Chára.
2. A river in Yakutia, Russia; Russian Ча́ра (Čára)

   Synonyms: Chara River, River Chara

3. Ellipsis of Chara language.; A language found in Ethiopia. (ISO 639-3: cra)
4. Ellipsis of Chara people.; An ethnic group found in Ethiopia.

   Synonym: Charas

Derived terms

• Chara Language
• Chara People
• Chara River
• River Chara

 

Anagrams

• achar

Old Czech

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈxara/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈxara/

Proper noun

Chara m pers

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Chara (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	Chara	Chařě	Chary
genitive	Chary	Charú	Char
dative	Chařě	Charama	Charám
accusative	Charu	Chařě	Chary
vocative	Charo	Chařě	Chary
locative	Chařě	Charú	Charách
instrumental	Charú	Charama	Charami

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Chara”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění