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kare

kara

masc acc pl of kara (adj); nt acc pl of kara (adj); masc loc sg of kara (adj); nt loc sg of kara (adj); …

1. kara (adj): doing; making
2. kara (root): (gram) √kar (do, make)
3. kara (masc): (gram) helping; supporting; promoting; lit. doing
4. kara (masc): semen; sperm; lit. doing
5. kara (masc): ray; lit. doing
6. kara (masc): tax; lit. doing
7. kara (masc): trunk of an elephant; lit. doing
8. kara (masc): hand; lit. doing
9. …

Built from

• kar — root · do, make
  The root of action; cognate with Sanskrit kṛ-, Greek κρι- (kri-), Latin cre- in crēō. The hand, ray, and tax all derive from the fundamental sense of agent or action.
• a — ending · masc/nt stem
  Nominalizing suffix forming masculine agent nouns and neuter abstracts from verbal roots; here attached to √kar to form the stem kara-.

Etymology. From √kar (do, make), cognate with Sanskrit kṛ, Greek κρίνω (krínō, sift, judge), Latin crēō (create), English craft. The concrete sense 'hand' derives from the hand as the agent of action; 'ray' from solar rays that 'do' or act; 'tax' from what is 'done' or exacted; 'trunk' from its function of doing/grasping.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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