chara

See also: Chara, Chára, and Chará

English

Etymology 1

From translingual/New Latin Chara.

Noun

chara (plural charas)

  1. A green alga of the genus Chara.
    Synonym: muskgrass

Noun

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

Eastern Bontoc

Noun

chara

  1. blood

Iban

Etymology

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

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

Noun

chara

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

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

chara

  1. Lenited form of cara.

Japanese

Romanization

chara

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ちゃら

Latin

Etymology

Compare English caraway.

Noun

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

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

  • 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.

Liangmai Naga

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɑːrə/

Noun

chara

  1. soul
  2. bone

Middle Irish

Noun

chara

  1. Lenited form of cara.

Occitan

Noun

chara f (plural charas) (Limousin)

  1. face (front part of the head)

Spanish

Noun

chara f (plural charas)

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

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

chara

  1. Aspirate mutation of cara.

Mutation

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.
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