karate
/kəˈɹɑː.ti/US/kəˈɹɑ.ti/
karate noun: an Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.
Noun
karate (uncountable)
- An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.
- Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Wall taught karate at a local nursing home.2020 June 10, Ashley Vaughan, “This teenage martial artist creates videos to help superhero seniors stay active while in quarantine”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2024
Verb
karate (third-person singular simple present karates, present participle karateing, simple past and past participle karated)
- To attack (somebody or something) with karate or similar techniques.
karate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
karate in Hindi
- martial art
- कराटे karāṭe
karate in Tamil
- martial art
- கராத்தே karāttē
karate in Marathi
- कराटे, कराटेईंग
karate in Urdu
- martial art
- کراٹے karāṭē
More languagesFewer languages
- karate in Bengali
- কারাতে karate
- karate in Telugu
- కరాటే karāṭē
- karate in Malayalam
- കരാട്ടെ karāṭṭe
- karate in Kannada
- ಕರಾಟೆ karāṭe
- karate in Punjabi
- ਕਰਾਟੇ, ਕਾਰਾਟੇ, ਕਰਾਟੇਈੰਗ
- karate in Gujarati
- કરાટે karāṭe
- karate in Odia
- କରାଟେ, କାରାଟେ, କରାଟେକୁ
- karate in Sinhala
- කරාටේ karāṭē
- karate in Nepali
- कराते karāte, कराटे karāṭe
- karate in Tagalog
- karate
- karate in Arabic
- كَارَاتِيه karātīh
- karate in Malay
- karate
- karate in Indonesian
- karate
- karate in Persian
- کاراته kârâte
- karate in Thai
- คาราเต้ kaa-raa-dtêe
- karate in Vietnamese
- không thủ đạo, karate
- karate in Myanmar
- ကရာတေး ka.rate:
Examples of karate in a sentence
- I've never tried karate before, but I'm willing to have a go.
- And now I'm going to hit you with my karate chop! Take that!
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
Forms of karate
| third-person singular present | karates |
|---|---|
| present participle | karateing |
| past participle | karated |
| past | karated |
Origin of karate
Borrowed from Japanese 空(から)手(て) (karate), from 唐(から)手(て) (karate), an orthographic borrowing from Okinawan 唐手(とーでぃー) (tōdī, “Chinese hand”).
Words formed from karate
Phrases with karate
Words that rhyme with karate
Questions about karate
- What does karate mean?
- Karate means an Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.
- What is karate in Hindi?
- Karate in Hindi is कराटे (karāṭe). See Karate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is karate?
- Karate can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce karate?
- Karate is pronounced /kəˈɹɑː.ti/ (UK).
Words near karate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: karate (page history and authors); karate (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); karate (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); karate (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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