karate

See also: kárate, karaté, karatè, Karate, and karatē

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手 ‎(karate), from 唐手 ‎(karate), from Okinawan 唐手 ‎(tūdī, “Chinese hand”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kə-räʹti, IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɑː.ti/
• Rhymes: -ɑːti

Noun

karate ‎(uncountable)

1. An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.

Derived terms

• karate kick

Related terms

• karateka

Translations

martial art

• Afrikaans: karate
• Arabic: كَارَاتِيه m ‎(karātīh)
• Armenian: կարատե ‎(karate)
• Belarusian: каратэ́ n ‎(karaté)
• Burmese: ကရာတေး (my) ‎(ka.rate:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空手 (zh) ‎(kōngshǒu), 空手道 (zh) ‎(kōngshǒudào)

• Czech: karate (cs) n
• Finnish: karate (fi)
• French: karaté (fr) m
• German: Karate (de) n
• Greek: καράτε (el) n ‎(karáte)
• Hebrew: קראטה m ‎(kárate)
• Hindi: कराटे ‎(karāṭē)
• Icelandic: karate n
• Indonesian: karate (id)
• Japanese: 空手 (ja) ‎(karate), 空手道 (ja) ‎(karatedō)
• Khmer: ការ៉ាតេ ‎(kaaraatee), ការ៉ាតេដូ ‎(kaaraatee doo)
• Korean: 카라테 ‎(karate), 가라데 ‎(garade), 공수도 ‎(gongsudo)
• Kyrgyz: карате ‎(karate)
• Lithuanian: karatė f
• Macedonian: кара́те n ‎(karáte)
• Malay: karate

• Malayalam: കരാട്ടെ ‎(karāṭṭe)
• Maori: karāti
• Norwegian: karate m
• Persian: کاراته (fa) ‎(kârâte)
• Polish: karate (pl) n
• Portuguese: caratê (pt) m
• Romanian: carate
• Russian: карате́ (ru) m ‎(karatɛ́), каратэ́ (ru) m ‎(karatɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: карате m

  Roman: karate m

• Sotho: karate
• Swedish: karate (sv) c
• Tagalog: karate
• Tajik: каратэ ‎(karate)
• Tamil: கராத்தே (ta) ‎(karāttē)
• Thai: คาราเต้ (th) ‎(kaa-raa-dtây)
• Turkish: karate (tr)
• Ukrainian: карате́ (uk) n ‎(karaté)
• Urdu: کراٹے ‎(karāṭē)
• Vietnamese: vỏ không thủ đạo, karate (vi)
• Yiddish: קאַראַטע ‎(karate)

Verb

karate ‎(third-person singular simple present karates, present participle karateing, simple past and past participle karated)

1. (transitive, informal) To attack (somebody or something) with karate or similar techniques.

Anagrams

• ektara

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Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese 空手 ‎(karate), from 唐手 ‎(karate), from Okinawan 唐手 ‎(tūdī, “empty hand”).

Noun

karate ‎(uncountable)

1. karate

Derived terms

• karatefederasie
• karatehou
• karatekampioen
• karatekampioenskap

• karateklub
• karatepak
• karatespan
• karatetegniek

Related terms

• karateka
• kata
• kihon

• kumite
• sensei

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Czech

Noun

karate n

1. karate

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Japanese 空手, from 唐手 ‎(karate), from Okinawan 唐手 ‎(tūdī, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaːratɛː/

Noun

karate n ‎(genitive singular karates, no plural)

1. karate

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Japanese

Romanization

karate

1. rōmaji reading of からて

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Polish

Etymology

From Japanese 空手 ‎(karate)

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

karate n ‎(indecl)

1. karate

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Japanese 空手, from 唐手 ‎(karate), from Okinawan 唐手 ‎(tūdī, “empty hand”).

Noun

karàte m ‎(Cyrillic spelling кара̀те) (not inflected)

1. karate

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手 ‎(karate), from 唐手 ‎(karate), from Okinawan 唐手 ‎(tūdī, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka̠ˈɾa̠.te̞]

Noun

karate m ‎(plural uncountable)

1. (martial arts) karate