-காரன்

From Sanskrit -कार (-kāra) +‎ -அன் (-aṉ), from the root कृ (kṛ, “to do, make”).

• IPA^(key): /kaːɾɐn/

-காரன் • (-kāraṉ) (masculine)

1. forms doer / maker nouns.

   Synonym: -அன் (-aṉ)

   ‎கடற்கொள்ளை (kaṭaṟkoḷḷai, “piracy”) + ‎-காரன் (-kāraṉ) → ‎கடற்கொள்ளைக்காரன் m (kaṭaṟkoḷḷaikkāraṉ, “pirate”)

2. (colloquial) added to certain kinship terms when the third person refers to someone's relative.

• -காரி (-kāri, feminine equivalent)
• -காரர் (-kārar, common gender equivalent)

• S. Ramakrishnan (1992), “-காரன்”, in தற்காலத் தமிழ் அகராதி [Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil] (in Tamil), Madras: Cre-A Publishers, page [1]
• University of Madras (1924–1936), “காரன்”, in Tamil Lexicon, Madras [Chennai]: Diocesan Press
• Johann Philipp Fabricius (1779), “காரன்”, in A Malabar and English Dictionary, Tranquebar: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Pub. House; republished as Tamil and English Dictionary, 1972
• Miron Winslow (1862), “காரன்”, in A comprehensive Tamil and English dictionary of high and low Tamil, Madras: P. R. Hunt
• Johann Philipp Fabricius (1779), “காரன்”, in A Malabar and English Dictionary, Tranquebar: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Pub. House; republished as Tamil and English Dictionary, 1972