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 (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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Derived terms

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References

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Maltese

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Root
q-r-j
6 terms

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)