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cara f (plural caras)

1. (anatomy) face

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cara”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈka.ɾa]

cara f (plural cares)

1. (anatomy) face

   Synonym: rostru

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -aɾa

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

cara f (plural cares)

1. face (front part of the head)
2. face (public image)
3. heads (side of a coin)
4. face, surface

• cara a cara

cara f sg

1. feminine singular of car

• “cara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

cara

1. wound

• carağa tuz basmaq (“rub salt in the wound”)
• carasın teşmek (“scratch one's wound”)

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa/
• Homophones: caras, carât

cara

1. third-person singular past historic of carer

From Old Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

cara f (plural caras)

1. face (of a person or animal)
2. surface (face of a polyhedron)

From Malay cara,

• From Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “behaviour, good conduct; usage; custom; rule”), from Sanskrit चर् (car, “to move, to practice”)
• Alternatively, from Persian چاره‎ (čâra, “remedy; help; business; scheme; means, manner, mode”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ra/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra

cara (plural cara-cara, first-person possessive caraku, second-person possessive caramu, third-person possessive caranya)

1. way
2. manner

• “cara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

• caraid (Cois Fharraige)

From Middle Irish cara (“friend, relation”) (compare Scottish Gaelic caraid, Manx carrey), from Old Irish carae (“friend, relation”), from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kāro- (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɾˠə/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾˠə/

cara m (genitive singular carad, nominative plural cairde)

1. friend

• Alternative genitive plural: carad (in certain phrases, otherwise archaic)

• "cara" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 cara”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• “cara” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Entries containing “cara” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cara” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

cara

1. Feminine singular of adjective caro.

cara f (plural care)

1. female equivalent of caro

• arac, arca

Inflected form of cārus (“beloved”).

cāra

1. nominative feminine singular of cārus
2. nominative neuter plural of cārus
3. accusative neuter plural of cārus
4. vocative feminine singular of cārus
5. nominative neuter plural of cārus

cārā

1. ablative feminine singular of cārus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n-.

cara f (genitive carae); first declension

1. face

First declension.

cara m

1. genitive singular form of cars

• carait

From Old Irish carae, from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kāro- (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkara/

cara

1. friend

   coscc carat ― a friend's advice

2. relative

• caratrad (“friendship, alliance”)

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 cara”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

cara f

1. Alternative spelling of kara

cara

1. second-person singular imperative active of carati (“to walk”)

cara

1. genitive singular of car
2. accusative singular of car

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾa/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra

From Old Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrh₂esn.

cara f (plural caras)

1. face

   Synonyms: face, rosto

2. heads (side of coin)

   cara ou coroa ― head or tails

   Synonym: anverso

   Antonym: coroa

3. (informal) resemblance, appearance (perceived characteristic of a person, object or situation)

   Ele tem cara de idiota.

   He looks like an idiot.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:cara.

cara m (plural caras)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) man, fellow, guy and any adult male

   Synonyms: bicho, camarada, cabra, tipo

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:cara.

From Latin cāra.

cara

1. Feminine singular of adjective caro.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:caro.

cara f

1. (Logudorese) face

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾa/

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From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

cara f (plural caras)

1. (anatomy) face (the front part of the head)

   Synonyms: rostro, haz

2. face (one's facial expression)
3. face (the frontal aspect of something)

   Synonyms: frente, fachada

4. (colloquial) gall, nerve (impudence)
5. (geometry) face (any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron)
6. heads (side of a coin)

   Synonym: anverso

   Antonyms: cruz, ceca (Argentina)

cara

1. Feminine singular of adjective caro.

• “cara” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

cara f sg

1. feminine singular of caro

• câr (literary, third-person singular present/future)
• caraf (first-person singular future)
• cariff (colloquial, third-person singular future)
• carith (colloquial, third-person singular future)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːra/, /ˈkara/

cara

1. inflection of caru:
   1. (colloquial) first-person singular future
   2. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future
   3. second-person singular imperative