kara
Turkish
/kɑˈɾɑ/
adj
Definitions
- black, dark
- brunette
- dark skinned
- (figuratively) evil, wicked, villainous
- (figuratively) courageous
Etymology
Derived from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰺𐰀 (north, dark, land, black) inherited from Proto-Turkic *kara (black, dark).
Origin
Proto-Turkic
*kara
Gloss
black, dark
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
黒
Emoji
🐃 🐈⬛ 🕋 🖤 🦓
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Afyonkarahisar English
- caracal Italian
- caracal French
- caracal Portuguese
- Afyonkarahisar Turkish
- Karabağ Turkish
- Karadağ Turkish
- Karadağca Turkish
- Karadağlı Turkish
- Karadeniz Turkish
- Karagöz Turkish
- afyon Turkish
- baldır Turkish
- baldırıkara Turkish
- bağ Turkish
- biber Turkish
- ciğer Turkish
- dağ Turkish
- deniz Turkish
- dul Turkish
- göz Turkish
- hisar Turkish
- karabiber Turkish
- karaciğer Turkish
- karadul Turkish
- karakol Turkish
- karakulak Turkish
- karamsar Turkish
- karanlık Turkish
- kol Turkish
- kulak Turkish
- қара Kazakh
- қарақат Kazakh
- Qarabağ Azerbaijani
- karandaş Azerbaijani
- qara Azerbaijani
- qaralamaq Azerbaijani
- qaranlıq Azerbaijani
- qaraqalpaq Azerbaijani
- qarayara Azerbaijani
- qaraçı Azerbaijani
- üzüqara Azerbaijani
- قره Ottoman Turkish
- قرهقولاق Ottoman Turkish
- قرهگوز Ottoman Turkish
- *kara Proto-Turkic
- *kara teŋiŕ Proto-Turkic
- *kat Proto-Turkic
- *oluk Proto-Turkic
- -ელი Georgian
- ყარაჩოხელი Georgian
- ჩოხა Georgian
- хар Mongolian
- харгана Mongolian
- харалугъ Old East Slavic
- ҡара Bashkir
- ҡарағат Bashkir
- къарэ Adyghe
- قارا Uighur, Uyghur
- قاراچاي Uighur, Uyghur
- qora Uzbek
- *kara Proto-Mongolic
- кара Tuvan
- кара Kirghiz, Kyrgyz
- kara Old Turkic
- 𐰴𐰺𐰀 Old Turkic
- хара Yakut
- кара Tatar
- қара Shor
- хура Chuvash
- кара Dolgan
- qara Karakalpak