كار
Gulf Arabic
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
كار • (kār) m (Kuwait)
- busy person
- ما كاري ― mā kāri ― I'm not busy
Derived terms
- اشكار (eškār)
References
- الرشيد, خالد عبد القادر عبد العزيز (2012) “كار”, in موسوعة اللهجة الكويتية (in Arabic), page 531
Moroccan Arabic
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaːr/
Noun
كار • (gār) f (plural كارات (gārāt))
- train station
- Synonym: (commoner) محطة (maḥaṭṭa, mḥaṭṭa)
Alternative forms
- ڭار (gār), گار (gār)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaːr/
Noun
كار • (kār) m (plural كيران (kīrān))
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /caɾ/
Noun
كار • (kâr)
- (poetic, rare) business, negotium, work, affair, scheme
- Synonym: ایش (iş)
- profit, gain, earnings
- Synonym: قازانچ (kazanç)
- (trailing part in compounds) doer, maker, somebody having the job of
Derived terms
Related terms
- كار كذار (kargüzar, “skillful”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kâr
- → Armenian: քյար (kʻyar)
- → Bulgarian: кяр (kjar)
- → Macedonian: ќар (ḱar)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ćȃr/ћа̑р
- → Crimean Tatar: kâr
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1004b