karát

See also: karat, Karat, kárat, kārāt, and kärat

Czech

Noun

karát m inan (related adjective karátový)

  1. karat (US), carat (UK) (measure of the purity of gold)

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkɒraːt]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧rát
  • Rhymes: -aːt

Etymology 1

A wanderword, via German Karat or perhaps Italian carato.[1]

Noun

karát (plural karátok)

  1. carat (a unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams)
  2. carat (a measure of the purity of gold)
Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Possessive forms of karát
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. karátom karátjaim
2nd person sing. karátod karátjaid
3rd person sing. karátja karátjai
1st person plural karátunk karátjaink
2nd person plural karátotok karátjaitok
3rd person plural karátjuk karátjaik
Derived terms
  • karátos

Etymology 2

kar (“faculty, ensemble, choir”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

Noun

karát

  1. accusative of kara

References
  1. karát in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading
  • karát in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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