# karakter
## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch karakter, from Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈrak.tər/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

karakter (plural karakters)
* character

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish carácter, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “I engrave”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧ter

### Noun

karakter
* character (trait marking a person or group)
    Synonyms: batasan, gawi
* character (moral strength)
* character (symbol for a sound or word)
* (authorship) character (being in a story)
    Synonym: personahe

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:karakter.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkaraktɛr]

### Noun

karakter m inan
* Obsolete form of charakter.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “karakter”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “karakter”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Etymology

From French caractère (“character, personality”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /karakteːr/, [kʰɑɑɡ̊ˈtˢeːˀɐ̯]

### Noun

karakter c (singular definite karakteren, plural indefinite karakterer)
* character (distinguishing feature)
* mark (a score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement)
* grade (rating)

#### Further reading

* “karakter” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “karakter” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
* karakter on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$
* Karakter (personlighed) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$
* Karakter (bedømmelse) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkaːˈrɑk.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧ter
* Rhymes: -ɑktər

### Noun

karakter n (plural karakters, diminutive karaktertje n)
* a character, standardized graphic symbol, such as a letter of an alphabet or a numeric digit
* a character; a role, often conventionalised, in theatre
* a nature, a character
* a character, a person's psychological characteristics; especially guts, backbone
* (obsolete) a magical mark, a witch's mark

#### Derived terms

* karakteriseren
* karakteristiek
* karaktermoord

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: karakter
* → Indonesian: karakter

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Latin character.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkɒrɒktɛr]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧ter
* Rhymes: -ɛr

### Noun

karakter (plural karakterek)
* character (a person's psychological characteristics)
* character (a person with a distinctive personality)
* character (strength of mind, moral strength)
* character, glyph (a written or printed symbol, or letter)

#### Derived terms

* karakteres
* karaktergyilkosság
* karakterrajz
* karakterszerep
* karakterszínész

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* karakter 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

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkʰaraxtɛ(ː)r/
    Rhymes: -ɛːr

### Noun

karakter m (genitive singular karakters, nominative plural karakterar)
* character (a person’s psychological characteristics)
* a person with a distinctive personality
* (dated) grade, mark

#### Declension
## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch karakter, from Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kaˈrak̚tər]
* Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧têr

### Noun

karaktêr (plural)
* character:
** a person's psychological characteristics; especially guts, backbone; quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
    Synonyms: tabiat, watak
** (computing, mathematics) a written or printed symbol, or letter.
** (computing) one of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

#### Derived terms

* berkarakter
* karakter amoral
* karakter anal
* karakter permintaan

### Further reading

* “karakter” 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.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr); from English character (in a novel etc.).

### Noun

karakter m (definite singular karakteren, indefinite plural karakterer, definite plural karakterene)
* character, nature
* a character (in a novel, etc.)
* mark (in an exam, schoolwork)
    gode karakterer ― good marks

### References

* “karakter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr); from English character (in a novel, etc.).

### Noun

karakter m (definite singular karakteren, indefinite plural karakterar, definite plural karakterane)
* character, nature
* a character (in a novel, etc.)
* mark (in an exam, schoolwork)
    gode karakterar ― good marks

### References

* “karakter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /karǎkter/

### Noun

karàkter m (Cyrillic spelling кара̀ктер)
* character

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “karakter”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish carácter, from Latin character. Sense 4, semantic loan from English character.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /kaˈɾakteɾ/ [kɐˈɾak.t̪ɛɾ] (“trait; moral strength”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -akteɾ
** IPA: /ˈkaɾakteɾ/ [ˌkaː.ɾɐkˈt̪ɛɾ], /kaɾakˈteɾ/ [kɐ.ɾɐkˈt̪ɛɾ] (“symbol for sound of word; being in a story”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -aɾakteɾ, -eɾ
* Syllabification: ka‧rak‧ter

### Noun

karakter or káraktér or karaktér (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜇᜃ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔)
* character (traits marking a person or group)
* character (moral strength)
* character (symbol for a sound or word)
* character (being in a story)
    Synonyms: bida, persona, personahe

#### Related terms

* karakerisasyon

### Further reading

* “karakter”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قاراقتر (karakter), from French caractère, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kɑ.ɾɑk.tæɾ]

### Noun

karakter (definite accusative karakteri, plural karakterler)
* character, a symbol such as a letter of an alphabet
* a person's psychological characteristics, character
* a person in a novel or story