kar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kar"

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

kar

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Karenic languages.

English edit

Noun edit

kar (plural kars)

(marketing, in product names) Deliberate misspelling of car.
- 1989, International Shrine Clowns Association, page 26:
  In the fifties the need for a Klown vehicle was evident and a King Midget Frame was acquired and a Klown Kar was added.

Anagrams edit

AKR, Ark, Ark., RAK, RKA, ark, kra

Achi edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare with other Mayan – Quichean–Mamean K'iche' kar

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kar/

Noun edit

kar

fish (plural) karaiib'

References edit

Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala, Achi - castellano (2000)
livingdictionaries fish (kar) wav recording 2022

Afrikaans edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch kar, from Middle Dutch carre, from Latin carrus or the mediaeval variant carra, from Gaulish carros.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kar/
audio (file)

Noun edit

kar (plural karre, diminutive karretjie)

cart
car, automobile

Synonyms edit

wa

Derived terms edit

polisiekar

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Romani kar, from Sanskrit *काट (kāṭa).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [kaɾ]
IPA^(key): [kaɹ] (Gheg)

Noun edit

kar m (plural kar, definite kari, definite plural karet)

(anatomy) penis
(slang, vulgar) cock, dick

Declension edit

Declension of kar

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	kar	kare	kari	karet
accusative	kar	kare	karin	karet
dative	kari	kareve	karit	karevet
ablative	kari	karesh	karit	karevet

Synonyms edit

penis m (chiefly formal)
bile m
luc m (childish)
karuc m (colloquial, slightly vulgar, diminutive)
dërrasë f (vulgar)
hu m (vulgar)

Derived terms edit

karuc m (diminutive)

References edit

^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kar”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 170

Azerbaijani edit

Etymology edit

From Persian (kar).

Pronunciation edit

Audio (file)

Adjective edit

kar (comparative daha kar, superlative ən kar)

deaf
(phonetics, of a consonant) voiceless
kar samitlər ― voiceless consonants

Antonyms edit

(antonym(s) of "of a consonant"): cingiltili

Breton edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːr/

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Brythonic *kar, from Proto-Celtic *karants.

Noun edit

kar m (plural kerent)

relative

Mutation edit

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Mutation of kar

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	kar	gar	c'har	unchanged
plural	kerent	gerent	c'herent	unchanged

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

kar

Hard mutation of gar.

Mutation edit

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Mutation of kar

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	gar	c'har	unchanged	kar
plural	garoù	c'haroù	unchanged	karoù

Chuukese edit

Adjective edit

kar

hot

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈkar]

Noun edit

kar m inan

cirque

Declension edit

Declension of kar (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	kar	kary
genitive	karu	karů
dative	karu	karům
accusative	kar	kary
vocative	kare	kary
locative	karu	karech
instrumental	karem	kary

Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse ker.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ka/, [kʰɑ]
Rhymes: -ar

Noun edit

kar n (singular definite karret, plural indefinite kar)

Inflection edit

Declension of kar

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
neuter gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kar	karret	kar	karrene
genitive	kars	karrets	kars	karrenes

Derived terms edit

badekar

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kɑr/
audio (file)
Hyphenation: kar
Rhymes: -ɑr

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch carre, from Latin carrus or the mediaeval variant carra, from Gaulish carros. Doublet of ros.

Noun edit

kar f (plural karren, diminutive karretje n)

A cart, vehicle on wheels without motor.
Any wheeled vehicle, in particular a car or truck.

Synonyms edit

wagen

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Afrikaans: kar
→ Caribbean Hindustani: gári
→ Javanese: ꦏꦲꦂ (kahar)
- → Indonesian: kahar

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

kar

verb form of karren

Elfdalian edit

Noun edit

kar n

tub, bathtub

Inflection edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Hungarian edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈkɒr]
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɒr

Etymology 1 edit

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *karï (“forearm”)^[1] via Bulgar,^[2]^[3] compare Chuvash хур (hur, “span”).^[4]

Noun edit

kar (plural karok)

arm (upper limb of a human or animal)
lever (a rod with one end fixed, which can be pulled to trigger or control a mechanical device)
crank (bent piece of an axle used to impart a rotation to a mechanical device)
(only with the suffix -ban (“in”), often preceded by jó (“good”) or rossz (“bad”)) condition (the state or quality; the health status of a medical patient)

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	kar	karok
accusative	kart	karokat
dative	karnak	karoknak
instrumental	karral	karokkal
causal-final	karért	karokért
translative	karrá	karokká
terminative	karig	karokig
essive-formal	karként	karokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	karban	karokban
superessive	karon	karokon
adessive	karnál	karoknál
illative	karba	karokba
sublative	karra	karokra
allative	karhoz	karokhoz
elative	karból	karokból
delative	karról	karokról
ablative	kartól	karoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	karé	karoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	karéi	karokéi

Possessive forms of kar
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	karom	karjaim
2nd person sing.	karod	karjaid
3rd person sing.	karja	karjai
1st person plural	karunk	karjaink
2nd person plural	karotok	karjaitok
3rd person plural	karjuk	karjaik

Derived terms edit

Compound words

Expressions

tárt karokkal

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin chorus.

Noun edit

kar (plural karok)

faculty (scholarly staff at colleges or universities; usually preceded by the adjective denoting the members, e.g. tanári kar (“teaching staff”))
faculty (department at a university, e.g. that of arts, science, or law)
Meronym: tanszék
a group of people performing together (choir, chorus, chorus line, ensemble, etc.)
Hyponyms: énekkar, tánckar, zenekar

Usage notes edit

These two nouns are almost completely homonymous except for the third person single-object possessive forms and all multiple-object possessive forms, the first one (with the sense "arm") having an extra -j- between the root and the possessive ending.

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	kar	karok
accusative	kart	karokat
dative	karnak	karoknak
instrumental	karral	karokkal
causal-final	karért	karokért
translative	karrá	karokká
terminative	karig	karokig
essive-formal	karként	karokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	karban	karokban
superessive	karon	karokon
adessive	karnál	karoknál
illative	karba	karokba
sublative	karra	karokra
allative	karhoz	karokhoz
elative	karból	karokból
delative	karról	karokról
ablative	kartól	karoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	karé	karoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	karéi	karokéi

Possessive forms of kar
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	karom	karaim
2nd person sing.	karod	karaid
3rd person sing.	kara	karai
1st person plural	karunk	karaink
2nd person plural	karotok	karaitok
3rd person plural	karuk	karaik

Derived terms edit

kari

Compound words

References edit

^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “karı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 644-645
^ Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume I, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 492-494
^ kar in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “kar”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 361

Anagrams edit

rak

Iban edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [kar]

Noun edit

kar

map

Icelandic edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kʰaːr/
Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1 edit

From Danish kar, from Old Norse ker. Doublet of ker. Cognate with Swedish kar.

Noun edit

kar n (genitive singular kars, nominative plural kör)

tub

Declension edit

declension of kar

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular		plural
nominative	kar	karið	kör	körin
accusative	kar	karið	kör	körin
dative	kari	karinu	körum	körunum
genitive	kars	karsins	kara	karanna

Derived terms edit

baðkar

Etymology 2 edit

From English car.

Noun edit

kar n (genitive singular kars, nominative plural kör)

(colloquial, North America) car, automobile

Declension edit

declension of kar

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular		plural
nominative	kar	karið	kör	körin
accusative	kar	karið	kör	körin
dative	kari	karinu	körum	körunum
genitive	kars	karsins	kara	karanna

Synonyms edit

bíll

Related terms edit

(colloquial, North American) strítkar (“streetcar”)

K'iche' edit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

kar

Wikipedia

Noun edit

kar

fish

Kaingang edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kaɾ/, [ˈkaɾɐ]

Adjective edit

kar

every; all

Latvian edit

Verb edit

kar

inflection of kārt:
(with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of kārt
(with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of kārt

Ngarrindjeri edit

Pronoun edit

kar

they

Northern Kurdish edit

Noun edit

kar m

work, labor

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Noun edit

kar m (definite singular karen, indefinite plural karer, definite plural karene)

a bloke, chap, fellow, guy, man

Usage notes edit

Between 1938 and 1983, kara was a co-standard definite plural form. The form is now considered dialectal. This morphological peculiarity was shared with a choice other masculine nouns: gamp, gutt, hest, and tupp.

Derived terms edit

ågerkar

Etymology 2 edit

From Danish kar, from Old Norse ker, in the sense of blood vessels influenced by Latin vas.

Noun edit

kar n (definite singular karet, indefinite plural kar, definite plural kara or karene)

a container, vessel, tub, vat
a (fish) trap (e.g. for salmon)
a pier (for a bridge)
a vessel, artery, tube in a body or plant

Derived terms edit

References edit

“kar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“kar_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
“kar_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kɑːr/

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of kall.

Noun edit

kar m (definite singular karen, indefinite plural karar, definite plural karane)

a bloke, chap, fellow, guy, man
Synonyms: fyr, mann, type

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse ker, from Proto-Germanic *kazą. Doublet of kjer.

Noun edit

kar n (definite singular karet, indefinite plural kar, definite plural kara)

a vessel, tub (container of liquid or other substance)

Derived terms edit

References edit

“kar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams edit

ark, kra, rak

Polish edit

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

kar

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kar/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ar
Syllabification: kar

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from German Kar, from Middle High German kar, from Old High German char, from Proto-Germanic *kazą.

Noun edit

kar m inan

cirque, combe, corrie, cwm
Synonyms: cyrk lodowcowy, kocioł

Declension edit

Declension of kar

	singular	plural
nominative	kar	kary
genitive	karu	karów
dative	karowi	karom
accusative	kar	kary
instrumental	karem	karami
locative	karze	karach
vocative	karze	kary

Derived terms edit

adjective

karowy

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

kar f

genitive plural of kara

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

kar n

genitive plural of karo

Romani edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit *काट (kāṭa).^[1] Cognate with Hindi काढ़ (kāṛh), Gujarati કાડ (kāḍ), Sindhi 𑊺𑋠𑋊𑋣 (kāṛu), Marathi 𑘎𑘰𑘚 (kāḍ).^[1]^[2]

Noun edit

kar m

penis^[1]^[2]^[3]

Descendants edit

Angloromani: kor, kori, korri, kuri
- → English: corey, cory
→ Albanian: kar

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*kāṭa2”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 154
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kar¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 135b
^ Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 92

Sumerian edit

Romanization edit

kar

Romanization of 𒋼𒀀 (kar)

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse ker, from Proto-Germanic *kazą.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kɑːr/
Homophone: karl

Noun edit

kar n

tub
bathtub
Synonym: badkar

Declension edit

Declension of kar
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	kar	karet	kar	karen
Genitive	kars	karets	kars	karens

Derived terms edit

References edit

kar in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
kar in Svensk ordbok (SO)
kar in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
kar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams edit

ark, rak

Tat edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Persian (kâr).

Noun edit

kar

work

Tok Pisin edit

Etymology edit

From English car.

Noun edit

kar

car

Synonyms edit

ka

Turkish edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ/ [ˈkʰɑɾ̞̊]

Etymology 1 edit

From Ottoman Turkish قار (kar, “snow”), from Proto-Turkic *kār, *Kiār (“snow”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰴𐰺 (kar, “snow”), Proto-Mongolic *karig (“strong coldness”).

Noun edit

kar (definite accusative karı, plural karlar)

snow

Declension edit

Inflection

Nominative

kar

Definite accusative

karı

Singular

Plural

Nominative

kar

Definite accusative

Dative

Locative

Ablative

Genitive

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	karım	karlarım
2nd singular	karın	karların
3rd singular	karı	karları
1st plural	karımız	karlarımız
2nd plural	karınız	karlarınız
3rd plural	karları	karları
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	karımı	karlarımı
2nd singular	karını	karlarını
3rd singular	karını	karlarını
1st plural	karımızı	karlarımızı
2nd plural	karınızı	karlarınızı
3rd plural	karlarını	karlarını
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	karıma	karlarıma
2nd singular	karına	karlarına
3rd singular	karına	karlarına
1st plural	karımıza	karlarımıza
2nd plural	karınıza	karlarınıza
3rd plural	karlarına	karlarına
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	karımda	karlarımda
2nd singular	karında	karlarında
3rd singular	karında	karlarında
1st plural	karımızda	karlarımızda
2nd plural	karınızda	karlarınızda
3rd plural	karlarında	karlarında
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	karımdan	karlarımdan
2nd singular	karından	karlarından
3rd singular	karından	karlarından
1st plural	karımızdan	karlarımızdan
2nd plural	karınızdan	karlarınızdan
3rd plural	karlarından	karlarından
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	karımın	karlarımın
2nd singular	karının	karlarının
3rd singular	karının	karlarının
1st plural	karımızın	karlarımızın
2nd plural	karınızın	karlarınızın
3rd plural	karlarının	karlarının

Predicative forms
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	karım	karlarım
2nd singular	karsın	karlarsın
3rd singular	kar kardır	karlar karlardır
1st plural	karız	karlarız
2nd plural	karsınız	karlarsınız
3rd plural	karlar	karlardır

Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

kar

second-person singular imperative of karmak

Uzbek edit

Etymology edit

From Persian (kar).

Adjective edit

kar (comparative karroq, superlative eng kar)

deaf

Derived terms edit

karlik

West Frisian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Frisian kere, from Proto-Germanic *kuziz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to test, taste, choose”).

Noun edit

kar c (plural karren)

choice

Derived terms edit

foarkar

Yurok edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kaɹ/

Noun edit

kar

key

Zazaki edit

Noun edit

kar

(grammar) verb

Synonyms edit

fiil

[1] Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kar”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 170

[2] Clauson, Gerard (1972) “karı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 644-645

[3] Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume I, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 492-494

[4] kar in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

[5] Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “kar”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 361

[t-6] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*kāṭa2”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 154

[bi-7] 2.0 ^2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kar¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 135b

[8] Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 92

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