kāra
See also: Appendix:Variations of "kara"
Latvian edit
Verb edit
kāra
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit कार (kāra, “act, action”), कृ (kṛ, “to make”).
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
kāra
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Balinese: ᬓᬵᬭ (kara)
Noun edit
kāra
Further reading edit
- "kāra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Etymology edit
Inherited from Sanskrit कार (kāra); synchronically, as from the root of the verb karoti. The grammatical senses are likely to be borrowings of the Sanskrit cognate.
Noun edit
kāra m
- deed
- doing, manner
- production, application (esp. in compounds)
- (grammar) item in question
Declension edit
Declension table of "kāra" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | kāro | kārā |
Accusative (second) | kāraṃ | kāre |
Instrumental (third) | kārena | kārehi or kārebhi |
Dative (fourth) | kārassa or kārāya or kāratthaṃ | kārānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | kārasmā or kāramhā or kārā | kārehi or kārebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | kārassa | kārānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | kārasmiṃ or kāramhi or kāre | kāresu |
Vocative (calling) | kāra | kārā |
Derived terms edit
- kāranta (“final sound of word”)
Letters
Descendants edit
- → Thai: การ (gaan)
- → Lü: ᦂᦱᧃ (k̇aan)
- → Lao: ການ (kān, “work”), → ການ (kān, “duty”)
- → Lao: ການ (kān, “action”)
- → Northern Thai: ᨠᩣ᩠ᩁ
- → Khmer: ការ (kaa)
- → Khmer: តុលាការ (tolaakaa)
References edit
- Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “kāra”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead