carat

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• UK: /ˈkæ.ɹət/
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• /ˈkɛɹ.ət/ US, Mary–marry–merry merger
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• homophone: karat
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• homophone: carrot
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• homophone: caret (weak vowel merger)
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• rhymes with -æɹət
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• CMU ARPABET: K EH1 R AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat, similarly small units such as inches”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “hornlet, carob seed”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). Doublet of quilate and keratin.

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ) — mass
• Arabic: قِيراط (gīrāṭ) — mass
• Bulgarian: карат (karat) — mass
• Catalan: quirat — mass
• Chinese Mandarin: 克拉 (kèlā) — mass
• Czech: karát — mass
• Dutch: karaat — mass
• Esperanto: karato — mass
• Finnish: karaatti — mass
• French: carat — mass
• Galician: quilate — mass
• German: Karat — mass
• Greek: καράτι (karáti) — mass
• Hebrew: קראט (qarat') — mass
• Hungarian: karát — mass
• Indonesian: karat — mass
• Italian: carato — mass
• Japanese: カラット (karatto) — mass
• Khmer: ការាត់ (kaarat) — mass
• Korean: 캐럿 (kaereot) — mass
• Maltese: karat — mass
• Persian: قیراط (qirât) — mass
• Polish: karat — mass
• Portuguese: quilate — mass
• Russian: кара́т (karát) — mass
• Sicilian: caratu — mass
• Slovak: karát — mass
• Spanish: quilate — mass
• Swahili: karati — mass
• Swedish: karat — mass
• Thai: กะรัต (gà-ràt) — mass
• Turkish: karat — mass
• Arabic: قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ) — measure of the purity of gold
• Arabic: قيراط (ʔerāṭ) — measure of the purity of gold
• Armenian: կարատ (karat) — measure of the purity of gold
• Belarusian: кара́т (karát) — measure of the purity of gold
• Bulgarian: карат (karat) — measure of the purity of gold
• Burmese: ကရက် (ka.rak) — measure of the purity of gold
• Catalan: quirat — measure of the purity of gold
• Chinese Mandarin: 克拉 (kèlā) — measure of the purity of gold
• Czech: karát — measure of the purity of gold
• Dutch: karaat — measure of the purity of gold
• Esperanto: karato — measure of the purity of gold
• Finnish: karaatti — measure of the purity of gold
• French: carat — measure of the purity of gold
• Galician: quilate — measure of the purity of gold
• German: Karat — measure of the purity of gold
• Greek: καράτι (karáti) — measure of the purity of gold
• Hebrew: קראט (qarat') — measure of the purity of gold
• Hungarian: karát — measure of the purity of gold
• Indonesian: karat — measure of the purity of gold
• Italian: carato — measure of the purity of gold
• Japanese: カラット (karatto) — measure of the purity of gold
• Khmer: ការ៉ាត់ (kaarat) — measure of the purity of gold
• Korean: 캐럿 (kaereot) — measure of the purity of gold
• Kyrgyz: карат (karat) — measure of the purity of gold
• Macedonian: ка́рат (kárat) — measure of the purity of gold
• Maltese: karat — measure of the purity of gold
• Polish: karat — measure of the purity of gold
• Portuguese: quilate — measure of the purity of gold
• Russian: кара́т (karát) — measure of the purity of gold
• Sicilian: caratu — measure of the purity of gold
• Slovak: karát — measure of the purity of gold
• Spanish: quilate — measure of the purity of gold
• Swedish: karat — measure of the purity of gold
• Tagalog: kilatis — measure of the purity of gold
• Thai: กะรัต — measure of the purity of gold
• Turkish: ayar — measure of the purity of gold
• Ukrainian: кара́т (karát) — measure of the purity of gold
• Vietnamese: ca ra — measure of the purity of gold
• Vietnamese: cà rá — measure of the purity of gold
• Vietnamese: cara — measure of the purity of gold