کار

From Sanskrit कर्ण (kárṇa, “ear”).

• IPA^(key): /kɑɾ/

کار (kar)

1. (anatomy) ear

• Elena Bashir; Maula Nigah; Rahmat Karim Baig (2022), “کار”, in A digital Khowar-English dictionary with audio‎^[1], second edition, Chicago, I.L.: South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago, archived from the original on 19 January 2023.

• Audio (Iran):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (kʾl /⁠kār⁠/, “work, deed, affair”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do, make, construct”). Related to کردن (kardan), پیکر (peykar), پیکار (peykār) etc. Cognates include Sanskrit -कार (-kāra) and Armenian կար- (kar-) (to be able to).

کار • (kār / kâr) (plural کارها (kār-hā / kâr-hâ), Tajik spelling кор)

1. work
2. (physics) work
3. deed
4. occupation, job

   دنبال یک کار تازه می‌گردم.

   donbâl-e yek kâr-e tâze mi-gardam.

   I'm looking for a new (lit. fresh) job.

5. business

• → Azerbaijani: kar
• → Baharna Arabic: كار (kār)
• → Gulf Arabic: كار (kār, “hard-worker”)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: कार (kār)

  Urdu: کار (kār)

• → Ottoman Turkish: كار (kâr)
  • Turkish: kâr
  • → Armenian: քյար (kʻyar)
  • → Bulgarian: кяр (kjar)
  • → Macedonian: ќар (ḱar)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ćȃr/ћа̑р
  • → Crimean Tatar: kâr
• → Turkmen: kär

کار • (kâr)

1. present stem form of کشتن (keštan, “to sow, to plant”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian کار (kār).

کار • (kār) m (Hindi spelling कार)

1. work, occupation, action
2. function, duty, use

From Sanskrit कारक (kāraka).

ـکار • (-kār) (Hindi spelling कार-)

1. denotes a doer or agent; -er