Karas

• As a Slavic and Jewish surname (Polish Karaś, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Upper Sorbian): all from the noun karaś (“crucian carp”). Compare Caras, Karasch, Karras.
• As a Hungarian surname, from the name of the river Karaš, itself possibly from Turkish kara (“black”). Also Americanized from Kárász, itself related to the carp sense above.
• As a Greek surname, from κάρας (káras, “black”), itself from the Turkish word. Also shortened from names like Καραγεωργίου (Karageorgíou, “Black George”), Καραγιάννης (Karagiánnis, “black John”), etc. Compare Caras, Kara, Karras.
• As a German surname, shortened from names like Zacharias, or Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed”), Christian saint's name.

Karas (plural Karases)

1. A surname.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Karas”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 276.
• Forebears

• akras, Sakar, Araks, araks, Raska, Skaar, askar, Sakra, Askar, kasra

From karas (“crucian carp”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaras]

Karas m anim

1. a male surname

• “Karas”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
• Vladimír Šmilauer, Jaroslav Kuchař, and Slavomír Utěšený (1972) Čeština všední i nevšední, Prague: Academia, page 399

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• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁas/

Karas m or f by sense

1. a surname

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• Forebears (French)

From the noun karās (“crucian carp”), from Proto-Slavic *karasь.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaras]

Karas m pers (female equivalent Karasová)

1. a male surname

• “Karas”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025