carat

See also: carât

English

Alternative forms

• (unit of purity): karat (North America)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French carat, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian carato, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat”) (and meaning other small units as well, such as an inch), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek , diminutive form of .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/
• Homophones: karat, carrot
• Homophone: caret

Noun

carat (plural carats)

1. A unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams.
2. (historical) Any of several units of weight, varying from 189 to 212 mg, the weight of a carob seed.
3. A measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats.

Translations

weight

• Arabic: قِيرَاط m (qīrāṭ)
• Bulgarian: карат (bg) m (karat)
• Catalan: quirat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克拉 (zh) (kèlā)

• Dutch: karaat (nl) n
• Finnish: karaatti (fi)
• French: carat (fr) m
• German: Karat (de) n
• Greek: καράτι (el) n (karáti)
• Hebrew: קראט m (qarat')
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• Italian: carato (it) m
• Japanese: カラット (karatto)
• Khmer: ការាត់ (km) (kaarat)
• Korean: 캐럿 (kaereot)
• Maltese: karat
• Persian: قیراط (fa) (qirât)
• Polish: karat (pl) m
• Portuguese: quilate (pt) m
• Russian: кара́т (ru) m (karát)
• Spanish: quilate (es) m
• Swedish: karat (sv) c
• Thai: กะรัต (th) (gà-ràt)

measure of the purity of gold

• Armenian: կարատ (hy) (karat)
• Bulgarian: карат (bg) m (karat)
• Catalan: quirat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克拉 (zh) (kèlā)

• Czech: karát (cs) m
• Dutch: karaat (nl) n
• Finnish: karaatti (fi)
• French: carat (fr) m
• German: Karat (de) n
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• Greek: καράτι (el) n (karáti)
• Hebrew: קראט m (qarat')
• Italian: carato (it) m
• Maltese: karat
• Polish: karat (pl) m
• Portuguese: quilate (pt) m
• Russian: кара́т (ru) m (karát)
• Spanish: quilate (es) m
• Swedish: karat (sv) c
• Tagalog: kilates

Further reading

• carat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATRAC, Carta

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Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation in 1360 in the plural as quarais. Attested in the singular as quaret at least as early as 1433. Spellings with an initial c- first attested 1367.

Noun

carat m (plural caras or caraz)

1. carat (measure of purity of gold)

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Middle Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarad/

Noun

carat

1. genitive singular of cara (“friend; relative”)
2. genitive plural of cara (“friend; relative”)

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
carat	charat	carat pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.