karate

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空(から)手(て) (karate), from 唐(から)手(て) (karate), from Okinawan 唐手 (tūdī, “Chinese hand”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• 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.

Related terms

• karaoke
• karateka

Translations

martial art

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

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

• Czech: karate (cs) n
• Danish: karate c
• Esperanto: karateo (eo)
• Finnish: karate (fi)
• French: karaté (fr) m
• Georgian: კარატე (ka) (ḳaraṭe)
• German: Karate (de) n
• Greek: καράτε (el) n (karáte)
• Gujarati: કરાટે (karāṭe)
• Hebrew: קראטה‎ m (kárate)
• Hindi: कराटे (karāṭe)
• Icelandic: karate n
• Indonesian: karate (id)
• Japanese: 空手 (ja) (からて, karate), 空手道 (ja) (からてどう, karatedō)
• Kannada: ಕರಾಟೆ (karāṭe)
• Khmer: ការ៉ាតេ (kaaraatee), ការ៉ាតេដូ (kaaraateedou)
• Korean: 카라테 (karate), 가라데 (garade), 공수도 (gongsudo)
• Kyrgyz: карате (qarate)
• Lithuanian: karatė f
• Macedonian: кара́те n (karáte)
• Malay: karate

• Malayalam: കരാട്ടെ (karāṭṭe)
• Maori: karāti
• Nepali: कराते (karāte), कराटे (karāṭe)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karate m

  Nynorsk: karate m

• Persian: کاراته‎ (fa) (kârâte)
• Polish: karate (pl) n
• Portuguese: caratê (pt) m, karaté (pt) m, caraté m
• Romanian: karate (ro), carate
• Russian: карате́ (ru) m (karatɛ́), каратэ́ (ru) m (karatɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: карате m

  Roman: karate m

• Sinhalese: කරාටේ (karāṭē)
• Sotho: karate (st)
• Spanish: karate (es)
• Swahili: karate
• Swedish: karate (sv) c
• Tagalog: karate
• Tajik: каратэ (karate)
• Tamil: கராத்தே (ta) (karāttē)
• Telugu: కరాటే (karāṭē)
• Thai: คาราเต้ (th) (kaa-raa-dtêe)
• Tibetan: ཁ་ར་ཏེ (kha ra te)
• Turkish: karate (tr)
• Ukrainian: карате́ (uk) n (karaté)
• Urdu: کراٹے‎ (karāṭē)
• Vietnamese: không thủ đạo (vi), 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

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

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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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手.

Noun

karate

1. karate

Declension

Declension of karate

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	karate	karaten	karate	karateene
genitive	karates	karatens	karates	karateenes

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaːˈraː.tə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧te
• Rhymes: -aːtə

Noun

karate n or m (uncountable)

1. karate (Japanese martial art)

Derived terms

• karateka
• karateslag
• karatetrap

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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 空手 (karate).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑrɑte/, [ˈkɑrɑt̪e̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑrɑte
• Syllabification: ka‧ra‧te

Noun

karate

1. (martial arts) karate

Declension

Inflection of karate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		karate	—
genitive		karaten	—
partitive		karatea	—
illative		karateen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		karate	—
accusative	nom.	karate	—
	gen.	karaten
genitive		karaten	—
partitive		karatea	—
inessive		karatessa	—
elative		karatesta	—
illative		karateen	—
adessive		karatella	—
ablative		karatelta	—
allative		karatelle	—
essive		karatena	—
translative		karateksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		karatetta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of karate (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	karateni	karatemme
2nd person	karatesi	karatenne
3rd person	karatensa

Anagrams

• kaaret, kertaa, ketara, ratkea, trakea

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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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Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 空手(からて) (karate, literally “the state of being empty-handed”), from earlier 唐手(からて) (karate, literally “Tang Dynasty; China+ hand”), from Okinawan 唐手 (トゥーディー, tūdī, “empty hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ra.te/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧té

Noun

karaté

1. (sports, martial arts) karate; an Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting

Related terms

• karategi
• karateka

 

Further reading

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

Further reading

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

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Japanese

Romanization

karate

1. Rōmaji transcription of からて

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Japanese 空手, via English karate.

Noun

karate m (definite singular karaten, uncountable)

1. karate

References

• “karate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “karate” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Japanese 空手, via English karate.

Noun

karate m (definite singular karaten, uncountable)

1. karate

References

• “karate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

From Japanese 空手 (karate).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈra.tɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɛ
• Syllabification: ka‧ra‧te

Noun

karate n (indeclinable)

1. karate

Related terms

noun

• karateka

 

Further reading

• karate in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• karate in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French karaté

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈra.te/

Noun

karate n (uncountable)

1. karate

Declension

declension of karate (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) karate	karateul
genitive/dative	(unui) karate	karateului
vocative	karateule

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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)

1. karate

Declension

Declension of karate

	singular	plural
nominative	karate	karatei
genitive	karatea	karatea
dative	karateu	karateima
accusative	karate	karatee
vocative	karateu / karatee	karatei
locative	karateu	karateima
instrumental	karateom	karateima

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Spanish

Alternative forms

kárate

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾate/, [kaˈɾa.t̪e]

Noun

karate m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) karate

Hypernyms

• deporte de combate

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Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手 (karate)

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

karate (n class, plural karate)

1. karate

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 空手(からて) (karate), from 唐手(からて) (karate), from Okinawan 唐手 (とぅーでぃー) (tūdī).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧te
• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾate/, [kxɐˈɾate]

Noun

karáte

1. (martial arts) karate

Derived terms

• karatihin
• kumarate
• magkarate

 

Further reading

• “karate” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.