karate

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

English

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 (af)
• Arabic: كَارَاتِيه‎‎ m (karātīh)
• Armenian: կարատե (hy) (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
• Danish: karate c
• 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:

  Bokmål: karate m

  Nynorsk: 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 (st)
• Swedish: karate (sv) c
• Tagalog: karate
• Tajik: каратэ (karate)
• Tamil: கராத்தே (ta) (karāttē)
• Thai: คาราเต้ (th) (kaa-raa-dtêe)
• Turkish: karate (tr)
• Ukrainian: карате́ (uk) n (karaté)
• Urdu: کراٹے‎‎ (karāṭē)
• Vietnamese: võ 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

Borrowed 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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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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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 空手 (karate).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑrɑte/, [ˈkɑrɑt̪e̞]
• Hyphenation: 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		—	—

Anagrams

• kaaret, kertaa, ketara, ratkea

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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 Japanese 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

karate

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

Related terms

Terms related to karate

• 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.

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Japanese

Romanization

karate

1. Rōmaji transcription of からて

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾate/

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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

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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

Alternative forms

kárate

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 (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) karate