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kara

Pronunciation: /kaˈɾa/

“kara” is a Turkish word. Its 14 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. black, dark
  2. brunette
  3. dark skinned
  4. evil, wicked, villainous
  5. courageous
  6. sad, woeful, dark

noun

  1. black
  2. slander
  3. north
  4. fault, mistake
  5. gendarmerie
  6. key
  7. a black person
  8. land, field

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قره (kara), from Old Anatolian Turkish قَرَه (qara), from Proto-Turkic *kara (“dark, black”). Compare Azerbaijani qara, Gagauz kara, Turkmen gara, Uzbek qora.

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