kart

• cart

Short for go-kart,^[1] an alteration of go-cart.^[2]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑɹt/

• Audio (US):

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kart (plural karts)

1. A go-cart.
2. (video games, attributive) A subgenre of racing game with cartoonish characters, unrealistic physics and a focus on battling with power-ups and weapons.

   Synonym: mascot racer

   • 2012 July 26, Jeff W. Murray, Game Development for iOS with Unity3D, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 102:

     For our kart racer , we will start by investigating common elements in similar games that we will need to bring to life

   • 2021 June 22, Adam Jeremy Capps, The Game Maker's Bible: An All You Need Book To Create A Great Game, Adam Jeremy Capps, page 46:

     As there have been many kart games since Mario Kart. Before Mario Kart racing games were generally the same. This new style caught like fire.

   • 2024 February 23, Paul Roberts, Game AI Uncovered: Volume One, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 71:

     However, the tracks in a kart racing game tend to be a little bit wackier than your average racer and this was no different – loop-de-loops, racing upside down, and right-angle corners were all commonplace.

   1. A vehicle in such a game.

kart (third-person singular simple present karts, present participle karting, simple past and past participle karted)

1. (intransitive) To ride in a go-cart.

• “kart”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “kart”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “kart”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “kart”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

• karta (Sette Comuni)

From Italian carta.

kart f (plural kartn)

1. (Luserna) card

• postkart

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Borrowed from English kart.

• IPA^(key): /kɑrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: kart

kart m (plural karts)

1. kart, cart, go-kart, go-cart (small vehicle used for racing)

• kartbaan
• karten

kart m (plural karts)

1. go-cart

• “kart”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قَرْتْ (qart), from Proto-Turkic *kart. May be a derivation from Proto-Turkic *karı. However, this is uncertain.^[1] Compare Azerbaijani qart, archaic Turkish kart.

• IPA^(key): /kɑɾt/

kart (comparative taa kart, superlative en kart)

1. (animate) elderly, old

   Synonym: yaşlı

   kart kız

   old maid

• eski is used for inanimate objects.

kart (definite accusative kartı, plural kartlar)

1. old animal meat

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “карт”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 251
• Baskakov, N. A. (1991) “kart”, in İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 136
• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “kart”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 46
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “kart”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 93

kar +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒrt]
• Hyphenation: kart

kart

1. accusative singular of kar

Unadapted borrowing from English kart.

kart m (invariable)

1. kart, cart, go-kart, go-cart (small vehicle used for racing)

• (Courland) kartõ

From Proto-Finnic *karttadak.

kart

1. avoid

• IPA^(key): /kaʈ/, /kaʁt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aʈ, -aʁt, -art
• Hyphenation: kart
• Homophone: carte

kart m (definite singular karten, indefinite plural kart or karter, definite plural kartene)

1. unripe fruit or berries

From Latin charta (“paper, map”).

kart n (definite singular kartet, indefinite plural kart or karter, definite plural karta or kartene)

1. a map

• “kart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

kart m (definite singular karten, indefinite plural kartar, definite plural kartane)

1. unripe fruit or berries

kart n (definite singular kartet, indefinite plural kart, definite plural karta)

1. a map

• bykart
• plankart
• sjøkart

• “kart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkart/
• Rhymes: -art
• Syllabification: kart
• Homophone: kard

kart f

1. genitive plural of karta

Unadapted borrowing from English kart.

• Homophone: carte

kart m (plural karts)

1. alternative form of carte

• “kart”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “kart”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “kart”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “kart”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025

Borrowed from English kart.

kart m (plural karts)

1. kart, cart, go-kart, go-cart (small vehicle used for racing)

• “kart”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “kart” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

kart n

1. an unripe fruit or berry

• surkart

kart c

1. a kart (go-cart)

   Synonym: (more common outside professional karting) gokart

• karting

• kart in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kart in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kart in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• rakt

• IPA^(key): /kɑɾt/

From Proto-Turkic *karï (“old person”), whence obsolete (now dialectal) karı (“old person”). Cognate with Kazakh қарт (qart, “old man”), Kyrgyz карт (kart, “old, old man”), Azerbaijani qart, etc.

kart

1. hoary, old

• yaşlı, ihtiyar

• kartlaşmak (“to get old”)

From Ottoman Turkish قارت (kart), from French carte.

kart (definite accusative kartı, plural kartlar)

1. card

• kredi kartı

• “kart”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Borrowed from French quart.

kart n

1. quarter, one of four (equal) parts
2. A quarter of an hour, i.e. 15 minutes