karaoke (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[karaoke 词源字典]
1979, Japanese, from kara "empty" + oke "orchestra," shortened form of okesutora, which is a Japanization of English orchestra.[karaoke etymology, karaoke origin, 英语词源]
karat (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
variant of carat (q.v.). In U.S., karat is used for "proportion of fine gold in an alloy" and carat for "weight of a precious stone."
karate (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1955, Japanese, literally "empty hand, bare hand," from kara "empty" + te "hand." A devotee is a karateka.
Karen (1)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
Mongoloid people of Burma, 1759, from Burmese ka-reng "wild, dirty, low-caste man" [OED].
Karen (2)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
fem. proper name, Danish shortened form of Katherine. Rare before 1928; a top-10 name for girls born in the U.S. 1951-1968.
KarlyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
see Carl.
karma (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1827, in Buddhism, the sum of a person's actions in one life, which determine his form in the next; from Sanskrit karma "action, work, deed; fate," related to krnoti, Avestan kerenaoiti "makes," Old Persian kunautiy "he makes;" from PIE root *kwer- "to make, form" (see terato-). Related to the second element in Sanskrit.
karmic (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1883, from karma + -ic.
karoo (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"barren table land in South Africa," 1789, said to be from a Hottentot word.
karst (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
name of a high, barren limestone region around Trieste; used by geologists from 1894 to refer to similar landforms. The word is the German form of Slovenian Kras.
kart (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1959, short for go-kart (see go-cart).
karyo-youdaoicibaDictYouDict
before vowels kary-, word-forming element used since c. 1874 in biological terms referring to cell nuclei, from Greek karyon "nut, kernel," possibly from PIE root *kar- "hard" (see hard (adj.)).
karyotype (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1929, ultimately from Russian kariotip (1922); see karyo- + type.
kasbah (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
see casbah.
KashmiryoudaoicibaDictYouDict
from Sanskrit Kashypamara "land of Kashyap," said to be the name of a renowned sage. Related: Kashmiri.
katakana (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
from Japanese katakana, from kata "side" + kana "borrowed letter(s)."
katana (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1610s, from Japanese.
KateyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
fem. proper name, pet form of Katherine. In World War II it was the Allies' nickname for the standard torpedo bomber used by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
kathenotheism (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"a form of polytheism characteristic of the Vedic religion, in which one god at a time is considered supreme," 1865, coined in German by Max Müller from Greek kath' hena "one by one" + theism. Müller also coined henotheism (1860), from Greek henos "one," for "faith in a single god" as distinguished from exclusive belief in only one god, in writings on early Hebrew religion.
KatherineyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
fem. proper name, also Katharine, see Catherine.