Northern Sami language
"Karasjok" is a Norwegianized form of the Northern Sami language name "Kárášjohka". The meaning of the first element could be "káráš" from Northern Sami which could mean "food plate of wood", or from Finnish, "kara", "something that sticks". The last element is "johka" which means "river", whose equivalent in Finnish is "joki".