cari

• care, cai

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: ca‧ri

cari

1. which

cari

1. which, that, who

From Arabic جَارِي (jārī).

cari

1. current (existing or occurring at the moment)

   Synonyms: hal-hazırkı, indiki

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “cari”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[1] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 1, Baku: Şərq-Qərb

• carry, kari

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi/

cari m (plural caris)

1. curry (spice blend and dish)

   Synonym: curry

• “cari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• cira, cria

• cahari (archaic)

From Malay cari, from Sanskrit चारिन् (cārin).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃari/ [ˈt͡ʃa.ri]

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• Rhymes: -ari
• Syllabification: ca‧ri

cari (active mencari, passive dicari)

1. (transitive) to find; to search; to seek (to try to find something whose whereabouts are unknown)

   Synonym: telusuri

• “cari”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: cà‧ri

cari m pl (plural only)

1. (people) Carians (ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cari m pl

1. masculine plural of caro

cari m pl

1. plural of caro

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cari

1. inflection of cariare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• Acri, acri, arci-, crai

cārī

1. inflection of cārus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

cari m

1. nominative/vocative plural of cars

• (Baku, /a/-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃari/ [ˈt͡ʃa.ri]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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  • Rhymes: -ari, -ri, -i
• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃarik/ [ˈt͡ʃa.riʔ]
  • Rhymes: -ariʔ, -riʔ, -iʔ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ri

cari (Jawi spelling چاري, active mencari, third-person passive dicari)

1. to search, to look for, to seek

   Synonym: telusuri (Indonesia)

• > Indonesian: cari (inherited)

• "cari" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• Hyphenation: ca‧ri

cari m (plural caris)

1. alternative form of acari

• “cari”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cari”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): [karʲ]

cari

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căra

cari m

1. plural of car

cari

1. nonstandard form of care

Short for cariño.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾi/ [ˈka.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Syllabification: ca‧ri

cari m or f by sense (plural caris)

1. (colloquial) darling, dear, lover

• “cari”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• carî

From Ottoman Turkish جاری (cari), from Arabic جَارِي (jārī).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaːˈɾiː/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ri

cari

1. current, prevailing, in effect

   Synonyms: yürürlükteki, geçerli

   Fransa’da liberal sistem caridir, diğer yerlerde otorite sistemi caridir.

   In France the liberal system is current, elsewhere the authoritarian system is current.

2. usual, customary

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cari”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جاری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 635
• Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

• “cari”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

cari m pl

1. plural of caro

• ceri (literary)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkarɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːri/, /ˈkari/

cari

1. second-person singular future colloquial of caru