# karo
## English
### Etymology

From Maori karo.

### Noun

karo
* Pittosporum crassifolium, a shrub of New Zealand.

## Balinese
### Romanization

karo
* Romanization of ᬓᬭᭀ

## Borôro
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaːɾʌ/

### Noun

karo
* fish

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From Spanish carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-o-, from *k̑ers- (“to run”). Also short for karosa.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ka‧ro

### Noun

karo
* carriage used to carry images of saints during a procession

### Anagrams

* arko, okra, orka

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈkaro/ [ˈka.ro]
* Rhymes: -aro
* Syllabification: ka‧ro

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

karo (plural karo-karo)
* Acronym of kepala biro (“head of bureau”).

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tobelo [Term?].

#### Noun

karo (plural karo-karo)
* dead coral washed up on the beach

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦫꦺꦴ (karo), from Old Javanese karwa (“the two, both; a second, with”).

#### Noun

karo (plural karo-karo)
* annual Tengger community traditional ceremony of the second month after Kasada

### Further reading

* “karo” 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.

## Japanese
### Romanization

karo
* Rōmaji transcription of かろ

## Javanese
### Romanization

karo
* Romanization of ꦏꦫꦺꦴ

## Latvian
### Verb

karo
* inflection of karot:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** third-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of karot
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of karot

## Maori
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *kalo₃ from Proto-Oceanic *kalo or *karut (“to scratch with fingernails, to claw at”) (compare with Fijian kadru, also doublet of raku) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *garut (“rub against, scrape, scratch”) (compare with Malay garut (“to grind against one another, to scrape”) and garu “to scratch”). Doublet of raku.

### Verb

karo
* to pick out or scoop something out of a hole

### Derived terms

* hīkaro
* tīkaro

### References

* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kalo.3”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 131
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 237

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

karo
* Pittosporum crassifolium, a shrub of New Zealand.

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “karo”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 120
* “karo” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.rɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arɔ
* Syllabification: ka‧ro

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French carreau (“square”), from Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Classical Latin quadrus.

#### Noun

karo n
* (card games) diamond

##### Coordinate terms

Suits in Polish · kolor (layout · text) :
| kier | karo | pik | trefl |

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

karo
* vocative singular of kara

### Further reading

* karo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* karo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Rapa Nui
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɐ.ro/

### Verb

karo
* dig

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* kàrōn

### Etymology

Borrowed from German Karo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kâro/

### Noun

kȁro m (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ро)
* ♦, diamonds in card- and boardgames

#### See also

Suits in Serbo-Croatian · boje (layout · text) :
| herc, srce | karo, kocka | pik, list | tref, detelina |

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

#### Noun

karo class IX (plural karo class X)
* tuition fee (monetary payment charged for education)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

karo class IX (plural karo class X)
* sink, washbasin

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish carro, from Old Spanish carro, from Latin carrus. Doublet of kar.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈkaɾo/ [ˈkaː.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -aɾo
* Syllabification: ka‧ro

### Noun

karo (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜇᜓ)
* carriage used to carry an image of a saint in a procession
* hearse
    Synonym: karosa

#### Related terms

* karera
* kareta
* karetela
* kariton
* karosa
* karwahe

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* rako, arok, arko, okra

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French carreau.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈɾo/

### Noun

karo (definite accusative karoyu, plural karolar)
* (architecture) tile
* (card games) diamonds
    Synonym: orya

#### Coordinate terms

Suits in Turkish · takım (layout · text) :
| kupa | orya, karo | maça | ispati, sinek |

### Further reading

* “karo”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karo”, in Nişanyan Sözlük