chara

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See also: Chara, Chára, and Chará

English

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Etymology 1

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From translingual/New Latin Chara.

Noun

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chara (plural charas)

  1. A green alga of the genus Chara.
    Synonym: muskgrass
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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chara (plural charas)

  1. Shortened form of charabanc
    • 2013, Alf Townsend, The Charabanc: The Early Days of Motorised Coach Travel:
      The workers didn't get paid for any holidays, so a day out in a 'chara' was all they got.

Anagrams

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Eastern Bontoc

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Noun

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chara

  1. blood

Iban

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, behaviour, good conduct; usage; custom; rule), from Sanskrit चर् (car, to move, to practice).

Alternatively, from Malay cara, from Persian چاره (čâra, remedy; help; business; scheme; means, manner, mode).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃara/
  • Rhymes: -ra, -a
  • Hyphenation: cha‧ra

Noun

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chara

  1. manner, means, method
  2. style, fashion

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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chara

  1. Lenited form of cara.

Japanese

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Romanization

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chara

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ちゃら

Latin

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Etymology

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Compare English caraway.

Noun

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chara f (genitive charae); first declension

  1. An unknown kind of root, perhaps wild cabbage or the root of caraway
    • (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili, Liber III, 48:
      Est autem genus radicis inventum ab eis, qui fuerant vacui ab operibus, quod appellatur chara, quod admixtum lacte multum inopiam levabat.
      "There was a sort of root called chara, discovered by the troops which served under Valerius."

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative chara charae
Genitive charae charārum
Dative charae charīs
Accusative charam charās
Ablative charā charīs
Vocative chara charae

References

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  • chara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • chara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Liangmai Naga

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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chara

  1. soul
  2. bone

Middle Irish

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Noun

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chara

  1. Lenited form of cara.

Occitan

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Noun

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chara f (plural charas) (Limousin)

  1. face (front part of the head)

Spanish

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Noun

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chara f (plural charas)

  1. Any of a number of jays of the Corvidae family.

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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chara

  1. Aspirate mutation of cara.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cara gara nghara chara
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.