qara

See also: qará and q'ara

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic гара
Perso-Arabic قارا

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kara. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kara, black), Turkish kara, Chuvash хура (hura), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡɑˈrɑ]
  • (Tabriz) IPA(key): [ɡæˈræ][1]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: qa‧ra

Adjective

qara (comparative daha qara, superlative ən qara, intensive qapqara)

  1. black
  2. (only in combination with the verb basmaq) scary hallucination; ghost; nightmare, especially one associated with sleep paralysis
    məni qara basdıI hallucinated; I imagined something scary and unreal
    Synonym: qara-qura

Derived terms

See also

Colors in Azerbaijani · rənglər (layout · text)
          boz      qara
             qırmızı, al; tünd qırmızı              narıncı; qonur, qəhvəyi              sarı; tünd sarı
             açıq yaşıl              yaşıl              salat; tünd yaşıl
             mavi; firuzəyi              açıq göy              göy
             bənövşəyi; indiqo              çəhrayı; açıq çəhrayı              çəhrayı

References

  1. Haneda, Koichi (2009—2010), “qara”, in لغات لهجه‌ی تبریز [Vocabulary of Tabrizi Dialect] (in Persian), Tabriz: یاران, →ISBN, page 96

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

  1. black

Verb

qara (Northern dialect)

(imperative; singular; second)

  1. to look at
  2. to consider
  3. to seek, to query
  4. to care, to be in charge of

Karakalpak

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kara.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [qɑˈrɑ]
  • Hyphenation: qa‧ra

Adjective

qara

  1. black

Antonyms


Khalaj

Perso-Arabic قارا

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kara.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qaˈɾa/

Adjective

qara

  1. black

References

  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

Maltese

Root
q-r-j
6 terms

Etymology

From Arabic قَرَأَ (qaraʾa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔa.ra/
  • Homophones: qara', qargħa (except archaically)

Verb

qara (imperfect jaqra, past participle moqri, verbal noun qari)

  1. to read
  2. to size up

Conjugation

    Conjugation of qara
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m qrajt qrajt qara qrajna qrajtu qraw
f qrat
imperfect m naqra taqra jaqra naqraw taqraw jaqraw
f taqra
imperative aqra aqraw

Quechua

Noun

qara

  1. skin, leather, bark, peel, hide
  2. agave, maguey; Agave americana

Usage notes

Not to be confused with q'ara.

Declension


Tatar

Adjective

qara

  1. Latin spelling of кара (qara, black)
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