karani

Borrowed from Swahili karani.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kàɾáníꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into njata class which includes njata, gĩkabu, gĩtara, ithanwa, kĩihũri, etc.^[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on. Clements (1984) classifies this term into “HLHL class” corresponding to Armstrong's njata and ðiimbo classes (e.g. itũũra), and Benson's disyllabic 7 and 8 (e.g. matũũra (“plural of itũũra”), thani), together with matũũra.^[3]

karani class 12 (plural tũrani)

1. clerk, secretary

Borrowed from English currant.

karani

1. currant (small raisin)

• “karani” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈra.ɲi/
• Rhymes: -aɲi
• Syllabification: ka‧ra‧ni

karani

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of karany

• carani, karáni (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /kaˈrani/

karani

1. (obsolete) paint
2. write

• Gilberti, Maturino (1559) Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan (in Spanish), Iuan Pablos Bressano, page 10v: “Carani. eſcriuir o pintar.”
• Gylberti, Maturino (1559) Aqui comiença el Vocabulario enla lengua Castellana y Mechuacana (in Spanish), Mexico: Iuan Pablos Bressano, page 83v: “Eſcriuir como quiera. carani.”
• Gylberti, Maturino (1559) Aqui comiença el Vocabulario enla lengua Castellana y Mechuacana (in Spanish), Mexico: Iuan Pablos Bressano, page 140r: “Pintar. carani. atani.”
• [Instituto Lingüístico de Verano] (1975) Frases sencillas, tarasco-español‎^[1] (in Spanish), third edition, page 14: “karáni”
• Lagunas, Iuan Baptista de (1574) Dictionarito breue y compendioso en la lẽgua de Michuacan (in Spanish), Mexico: Pedro Balli, page 39: “Carani, que es eſcreuir”
• Lathrop, Maxwell (2007) Vocabulario del idioma purépecha‎^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 7, 26: “karani”

karani (Cyrillic spelling карани)

1. masculine plural passive past participle of karati

Borrowed from Arabic كَرَّانِيّ (karrāniyy).

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karani class V (plural makarani class VI)

1. clerk
2. secretary

   Synonym: sekretari

• ukarani (“clerkship”)

• → Kikuyu: karani
• → Malagasy:

karani

1. star