karm

A native word, ultimately from Proto-Uralic. Cognate to Finnish karmea (“scary, bitter”) and Northern Sami guormes (“thick (flour), rough (skin)”).

karm (genitive karmi, partitive karmi, comparative karmim, superlative kõige karmim)

1. harsh, severe, cruel

karm (genitive karmu, partitive karmu)

1. smoke, fumes

• karm in Sõnaveeb

karm

1. indefinite accusative singular of karmur

From Old Norse karmr.

karm m (definite singular karmen, indefinite plural karmer, definite plural karmene)

1. a frame (for a door or window)

• dørkarm
• vinduskarm

• “karm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse karmr.

karm m (definite singular karmen, indefinite plural karmar, definite plural karmane)

1. a frame (for a door or window)

• dørkarm
• vindaugskarm

• “karm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /karm/
• Rhymes: -arm
• Syllabification: karm

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъrmъ.

karm m inan

1. food, fodder

   Synonyms: karma, pokarm, wikt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

karm

1. second-person singular imperative of karmić

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

karm f

1. genitive plural of karma

• karm in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• karm in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Norse karmr, which is related to krókr (“hook”).

karm c

1. a frame (for a door or window)

• fönsterkarm

• karm in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• kram, mark

From Old Norse karmr (“breast-work, parapet”), related to Old Norse kjarr (“copsewood, brush-wood, thicket”), from the same Indo-European root as Ancient Greek γέρρον (gérrhon, “anything made of wicker-work”).

karm m

1. backrest (of chairs, sofas, sleds etc.)

• bakvāl