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Caras

Caras proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Caras (plural Carases)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Caras

pluralCarases

Origin of Caras

* As a Greek surname, variant of Karas. Compare also Carras. * Also as a Greek surname, from the personal name Kyriakos, see also Kyriacou. * As a Romanian surname, from caras (“crucian carp”), see Karas. * As a Jewish surname of Slavic (Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene), variant of Karas. * As a Polish (Karaś), Hungarian (Kárász) and Jewish surname, from the "carp" sense above.

Phrases with Caras

Questions about Caras

What does Caras mean?
Caras means a surname.
What part of speech is Caras?
Caras is a proper noun.

Words near Caras in the dictionary

  1. Caraquenian
  2. Caraquenians
  3. Caraquet
  4. Caraqueño
  5. Caraqueños
  6. Caras
  7. Carases
  8. Carasi
  9. carassow
  10. carassows
  11. carat

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