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karaoke (n.)[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.): 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.): 1955, Japanese, literally "empty hand, bare hand," from kara "empty" + te "hand." A devotee is a karateka.
Karen (1): Mongoloid people of Burma, 1759, from Burmese ka-reng "wild, dirty, low-caste man" [OED].
Karen (2): fem. proper name, Danish shortened form of Katherine. Rare before 1928; a top-10 name for girls born in the U.S. 1951-1968.
Karl: see Carl.
karma (n.): 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.): 1883, from karma + -ic.
karoo (n.): "barren table land in South Africa," 1789, said to be from a Hottentot word.
karst (n.): 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.): 1959, short for go-kart (see go-cart).
karyo-: 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.): 1929, ultimately from Russian kariotip (1922); see karyo- + type.
kasbah (n.): see casbah.
Kashmir: from Sanskrit Kashypamara "land of Kashyap," said to be the name of a renowned sage. Related: Kashmiri.
katakana (n.): from Japanese katakana, from kata "side" + kana "borrowed letter(s)."
katana (n.): 1610s, from Japanese.
Kate: 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.): "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.
Katherine: fem. proper name, also Katharine, see Catherine.