name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
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Standard Lemma guide
kara
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CMU ARPABET: K EH1 R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from Hindi.
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name
Meaning 3
A Papua New Guinean language.
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Synonyms: Lemakot
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name
Meaning 4
The language presumed to have been spoken by the Gaya confederacy in southern Korea, thought by some scholars to be attested from thirteen placenames.
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name
Meaning 5
An Omotic language, also sometimes called Karo.
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name
Meaning 6
The twenty-fifth year of the 60 year cycle of the Tamil calendar.
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noun
Meaning 7
A bangle worn by Sikhs, one of the five Ks, to remind them to do God's work.
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Usage: Sikhism
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History
Etymology
Variant of Cara.
Borrowed from Korean 加耶, from Middle Chinese 伽倻. The Middle Chinese pronunciation is thought to have been closer to /kaja/, but /kaɾa/ (Kara) is thought to have been the oldest pronunciation.
Borrowed from Tamil கர (kara).
From Punjabi ਕੜਾ (kaṛā); see Hindi कड़ा (kaṛā, “bracelet”).