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kra

kra noun: the letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of Greenland, replaced in 1973 by the letter q.

Noun (1)

kra

  1. The letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of Greenland, replaced in 1973 by the letter q.

Noun (2)

kra

  1. A long-tailed macaque of India and Sumatra, reddish-olive in colour with black spots and tail.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: KRA

KRA

  1. (Kenya, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Kenya Revenue Authority.

Noun (3) capitalized: KRA

KRA (plural KRAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of key result area.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Kra

Kra

  1. A branch of the Kra-Dai language family spoken in southern China and northern Vietnam.

Forms of kra

pluralKRAs

Origin of kra

Coined by Thai linguist Weera Ostapirat in 1999 from a reconstruction of a Proto-Kra endonym cognate with Thai ข้า (kâa, “slave”).

Phrases with kra

Questions about kra

What does kra mean?
Kra means the letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of Greenland, replaced in 1973 by the letter q.
What part of speech is kra?
Kra can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kra?
The plural of kra is KRAs.

Words near kra in the dictionary

  1. KPSS tests
  2. Kpuesi
  3. Kpwe
  4. Kquoja
  5. KR
  6. kra
  7. Kra Daadi
  8. Kra-Dai
  9. Kraabel
  10. Kraaifontein
  11. Kraak ware

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kra (page history and authors); KRA (page history and authors); Kra (page history and authors). 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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