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qara

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See also: qará and q'ara

Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic гара
Abjad قارا

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ɡɑˈrɑ]
  • (Tabriz) IPA(key): [ɡæˈræ][1][2]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: qa‧ra

Adjective

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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
    Synonym: qara-qura
    məni qara basdıI hallucinated; I imagined something scary and unreal

Derived terms

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See also

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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

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  1. ^ Haneda, Koichi (2009—2010) “qara”, in لغات لهجه‌ی تبریز [Vocabulary of Tabrizi Dialect] (in Persian), Tabriz: یاران, →ISBN, page 96
  2. ^ Səlimi, Hüseynqulu (1976) A generative phonology of Azerbaijani (PhD)‎[1], University of Florida, page 130: “The Tabriz pronunciation for 'Fold (it)!' is not [gatda], but [gætdæ]. There are other words, too, which reflect a breach of syn-harmony in Tabriz speech, as in [gæræ] < /gara/ gara 'black', etc.”

Crimean Tatar

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Adjective

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qara

  1. black

Verb

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kara.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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qara

  1. black

Antonyms

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Khalaj

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Perso-Arabic قارا

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kara.

Pronunciation

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  • (Mansûrâbâdî, Talxâbî) IPA(key): [ɢ̥ɒɾa]
  • (Xarrâbî) IPA(key): [qaɾa]

Adjective

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qara

  1. black
    Antonym: hürün

Noun

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qara (definite accusative qarañ, plural qaralar)

  1. nightmare

Declension

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Declension of qara
singular plural
nominative qara qaralar
genitive qarañ qaralarııñ
dative qaraqa qaralarqa
definite accusative qarañ qaraları
locative qaraça qaralarça
ablative qarada qaralarda
instrumental qarala qaralarla
equative qaravâra qaralarvâra

Derived terms

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References

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Maltese

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Etymology

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From Arabic قَرَأَ (qaraʔa).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. to read
  2. to size up

Conjugation

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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

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Noun

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qara

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

Usage notes

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Not to be confused with q'ara.

Declension

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Tatar

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Adjective

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qara

  1. Latin spelling of кара (qara, black)