Karachi
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Urdu کراچی (karācī) and Borrowed from Sindhi ڪراچي (karācī) / कराची, from earlier کولاچی (kolācī) / कोलाची, named after Mai Kolachi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈrɑːt͡ʃi/
Audio (Pakistan): (file)
Proper noun
Karachi
- The largest city in Pakistan situated along the Arabian Sea, as well as the provincial capital of Sindh Province.
- 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 5 June 2018:
- Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947.
- 2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 208:
- Karachi, colourful buses, colourless buildings, graffitied walls, billboards advertising mobile phones and soft drinks and ice cream, birds circling in the white-hot sky.
Derived terms
Translations
the capital of the province of Sindh, Pakistan
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Karachi ?
Portuguese
Proper noun
Karachi f
- alternative spelling of Carachi
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈɾat͡ʃi/ [kaˈɾa.t͡ʃi]
- Rhymes: -atʃi
- Syllabification: Ka‧ra‧chi
Proper noun
Karachi ?