Variant of Cara.
Kara
- A female given name.
Kara
- A surname from Hindi.
Kara
- A Papua New Guinean language.
- Synonym: (former name) Lemakot
Borrowed from Korean 加耶, from Middle Chinese 伽倻. The Middle Chinese pronunciation is thought to have been closer to /kaja/,[1] but /kaɾa/ (Kara) is thought to have been the oldest pronunciation.[2]
Kara
- The language presumed to have been spoken by the Gaya confederacy in southern Korea, thought by some scholars to be attested from thirteen placenames.
Kara
- An Omotic language, also sometimes called Karo.
Borrowed from Tamil கர (kara).
Kara
- The twenty-fifth year of the 60 year cycle of the Tamil calendar.
- ^ Christopher I. Beckwith, Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives (BRILL, 2007), page 40, n. 27
- ^ Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2009: →ISBN, page 105
Possibly from kara (“dried branch, (dialectal) grumpy person”) or kara (“bird”).[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑrɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝rɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑrɑ
- Syllabification(key): Ka‧ra
Kara
- a Finnish surname
- Kara is the 2924th (tied with 11 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 269 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- ^ Mikkonen, Pirjo, Paikkala, Sirkka (2000) Sukunimet, Helsinki: Otava, →ISBN
Kara f
- a female given name
Kara
- a male given name