cari

See also: carí, cári, ca ri, cà ri, and çarı

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• care, cai

Etymology

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: ca‧ri

Determiner

cari

1. which

Pronoun

cari

1. which, that, who

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic جَارِي (jārī).

Adjective

cari

1. current (existing or occurring at the moment)

   Synonyms: hal-hazırkı, indiki

Further reading

• “cari” in Obastan.com.

French

Alternative forms

• carry, kari

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi/

Noun

cari m (plural caris)

1. curry (spice blend and dish)

   Synonym: curry

Further reading

• “cari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cira, cria

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit चारिन् (cārin) via Malay cari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.ri/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ca‧ri

Verb

cari (active mencari, passive dicari, perfective passive tercari)

1. (transitive) to find; to look for; to seek

   Synonym: telusur

Conjugation

Conjugation of cari (meng-, transitive)
Root	cari
	Active	Involuntary / Perfective	Passive	Basic / Imperative	Jussive
Active	mencari	tercari	dicari	cari	carilah
Locative	–	–	–	–	–
Causative / Applicative1	mencarikan	tercarikan	dicarikan	carikan	carikanlah
	Causative
Active	–	–	–	–	–
Locative	–	–	–	–	–
Causative / Applicative1	mempercarikan	terpercarikan	dipercarikan	percarikan	percarikanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• bercari
• bercari-cari
• bercari-carian
• cari-cari
• cari-carian
• carian
• mencari-cari
• pencari
• pencarian

 

Further reading

• “cari” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: cà‧ri

Etymology 1

Noun

cari m pl (plural only)

1. (people) Carians (ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

cari m pl

1. masculine plural of caro

Noun

cari m pl

1. plural of caro

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cari

1. inflection of cariare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Acri, acri, arci-, crai

Latin

Adjective

cārī

1. inflection of cārus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Latvian

Noun

cari m

1. nominative/vocative plural of cars

Malay

Pronunciation

• Audio (Malaysia):

  (file)

Verb

cari (Jawi spelling چاري)

1. to search, to look for, to seek

Derived terms

• carian

Further reading

• “cari” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [karʲ]

Etymology 1

Verb

cari

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căra

Etymology 2

Noun

cari m

1. plural of car

Etymology 3

Pronoun

cari

1. Nonstandard form of care.

Spanish

Etymology

Short for cariño.

Noun

cari m or f by sense (plural caris)

1. (colloquial) darling, dear, lover

Further reading

• “cari”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Turkish

Alternative forms

• carî

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جاری (cari), from Arabic جَارِي (jārī).

Adjective

cari

1. current, prevailing, in effect
2. usual, customary

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cari”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جاری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 635
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Venetian

Noun

cari m pl

1. plural of caro

Welsh

Alternative forms

• ceri (literary)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkarɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːri/, /ˈkari/

Verb

cari

1. second-person singular future colloquial of caru

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cari	gari	nghari	chari
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.