karakter

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch karakter, from Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈrak.tər/
  • (file)

Noun

karakter (plural karakters)

  1. character

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish carácter, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, type, nature, character), from χαράσσω (kharássō, I engrave).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧ter

Noun

karakter

  1. character (trait marking a person or group)
    Synonyms: batasan, gawi
  2. character (moral strength)
  3. character (symbol for a sound or word)
  4. (authorship) character (being in a story)
    Synonym: personahe

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:karakter.

Czech

Noun

karakter m inan

  1. Obsolete form of charakter.

Declension

Further reading

  • karakter in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • karakter in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From French caractère (character, personality).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /karakteːr/, [kʰɑɑɡ̊ˈtˢeːˀɐ̯]

Noun

karakter c (singular definite karakteren, plural indefinite karakterer)

  1. character (distinguishing feature)
  2. mark (a score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement)
  3. grade (rating)

Declension

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkaːˈrɑk.tər/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɑktər

Noun

karakter n (plural karakters, diminutive karaktertje n)

  1. A character, standardized graphic symbol, such as a letter of an alphabet or a numeric digit.
  2. A character; a role, often conventionalised, in theatre.
  3. A nature, a character.
  4. A character, a person's psychological characteristics; especially guts, backbone.
  5. (obsolete) A magical mark, a witch's mark.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: karakter
  • Indonesian: karakter

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin character.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɒrɒktɛr]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

karakter (plural karakterek)

  1. character (a person's psychological characteristics)
  2. character (a person with a distinctive personality)
  3. character (strength of mind, moral strength)
  4. character, glyph (a written or printed symbol, or letter)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative karakter karakterek
accusative karaktert karaktereket
dative karakternek karaktereknek
instrumental karakterrel karakterekkel
causal-final karakterért karakterekért
translative karakterré karakterekké
terminative karakterig karakterekig
essive-formal karakterként karakterekként
essive-modal
inessive karakterben karakterekben
superessive karakteren karaktereken
adessive karakternél karaktereknél
illative karakterbe karakterekbe
sublative karakterre karakterekre
allative karakterhez karakterekhez
elative karakterből karakterekből
delative karakterről karakterekről
ablative karaktertől karakterektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
karakteré karaktereké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
karakteréi karakterekéi
Possessive forms of karakter
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. karakterem karaktereim
2nd person sing. karaktered karaktereid
3rd person sing. karaktere karakterei
1st person plural karakterünk karaktereink
2nd person plural karakteretek karaktereitek
3rd person plural karakterük karaktereik

Derived terms

  • karakteres
Compound words
  • karakterrajz
  • karakterszerep
  • karakterszínész

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • karakter in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰaraxtɛ(ː)r/
    Rhymes: -ɛːr

Noun

karakter m (genitive singular karakters, nominative plural karakterar)

  1. character (a person’s psychological characteristics)
  2. a person with a distinctive personality
  3. (dated) grade, mark

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch karakter, from Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kaˈrak̚tər]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧têr

Noun

karaktêr (plural karakter-karakter, first-person possessive karakterku, second-person possessive karaktermu, third-person possessive karakternya)

  1. character:
    1. a person's psychological characteristics; especially guts, backbone; quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
      Synonyms: tabiat, watak
    2. (computing, mathematics) a written or printed symbol, or letter.
    3. (computing) one of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

Derived terms

  • berkarakter
  • karakter amoral
  • karakter anal
  • karakter permintaan

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr); from English character (in a novel etc.).

Noun

karakter m (definite singular karakteren, indefinite plural karakterer, definite plural karakterene)

  1. character, nature
  2. a character (in a novel, etc.)
  3. mark (in an exam, schoolwork)
    gode karakterergood marks

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr); from English character (in a novel, etc.).

Noun

karakter m (definite singular karakteren, indefinite plural karakterar, definite plural karakterane)

  1. character, nature
  2. a character (in a novel, etc.)
  3. mark (in an exam, schoolwork)
    gode karakterargood marks

References

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

karàkter m (Cyrillic spelling кара̀ктер)

  1. character

Declension

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish carácter, from Latin character. Sense 4, semantic loan from English character.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /kaˈɾakteɾ/ [kɐˈɾak.tɛɾ] (trait; moral strength, noun)
      • Rhymes: -akteɾ
    • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾakteɾ/ [ˈka.ɾɐk.tɛɾ], /kaɾakˈteɾ/ [kɐ.ɾɐkˈtɛɾ] (symbol for sound of word; being in a story, noun)
      • Rhymes: -aɾakteɾ, -eɾ
  • Syllabification: ka‧rak‧ter

Noun

karakter or káraktér or karaktér (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜇᜃ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔)

  1. character (traits marking a person or group)
  2. character (moral strength)
  3. character (symbol for a sound or word)
  4. character (being in a story)
    Synonyms: bida, persona, personahe
  • karakerisasyon

Further reading

  • karakter”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قاراقتر (karakter), from French caractère, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɑ.ɾɑk.tæɾ]

Noun

karakter (definite accusative karakteri, plural karakterler)

  1. character, a symbol such as a letter of an alphabet
  2. a person's psychological characteristics, character
  3. a person in a novel or story

Declension

Inflection
Nominative karakter
Definite accusative karakteri
Singular Plural
Nominative karakter karakterler
Definite accusative karakteri karakterleri
Dative karaktere karakterlere
Locative karakterde karakterlerde
Ablative karakterden karakterlerden
Genitive karakterin karakterlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterim karakterlerim
2nd singular karakterin karakterlerin
3rd singular karakteri karakterleri
1st plural karakterimiz karakterlerimiz
2nd plural karakteriniz karakterleriniz
3rd plural karakterleri karakterleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterimi karakterlerimi
2nd singular karakterini karakterlerini
3rd singular karakterini karakterlerini
1st plural karakterimizi karakterlerimizi
2nd plural karakterinizi karakterlerinizi
3rd plural karakterlerini karakterlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterime karakterlerime
2nd singular karakterine karakterlerine
3rd singular karakterine karakterlerine
1st plural karakterimize karakterlerimize
2nd plural karakterinize karakterlerinize
3rd plural karakterlerine karakterlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterimde karakterlerimde
2nd singular karakterinde karakterlerinde
3rd singular karakterinde karakterlerinde
1st plural karakterimizde karakterlerimizde
2nd plural karakterinizde karakterlerinizde
3rd plural karakterlerinde karakterlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterimden karakterlerimden
2nd singular karakterinden karakterlerinden
3rd singular karakterinden karakterlerinden
1st plural karakterimizden karakterlerimizden
2nd plural karakterinizden karakterlerinizden
3rd plural karakterlerinden karakterlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterimin karakterlerimin
2nd singular karakterinin karakterlerinin
3rd singular karakterinin karakterlerinin
1st plural karakterimizin karakterlerimizin
2nd plural karakterinizin karakterlerinizin
3rd plural karakterlerinin karakterlerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterim karakterlerim
2nd singular karaktersin karakterlersin
3rd singular karakter
karakterdir
karakterler
karakterlerdir
1st plural karakteriz karakterleriz
2nd plural karaktersiniz karakterlersiniz
3rd plural karakterler karakterlerdir
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