Noun: karate
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Han er nordisk mester i karate. (He is the Nordic karate champion.)
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en som virkelig kan og har forstått karaten, gjør alt han kan for å unngå å bruke den (Someone who truly knows and understands karate does everything he can to avoid using it.) [1974, Billedbladet NÅ, number 17, page 23:]
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sort belte i karate (black belt in karate) [1981, Gert Nygårdshaug, Solfiolinen, page 115:]
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han brukte karate, brakk nesten armen på meg (He used karate and nearly broke my arm.) [1984, Ebba Haslund, Døgnfluens lengsel, page 101:]
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han begynte å trene karate i 1976, og det var ikke snakk om idrettskarate (He began training karate in 1976, and it was not competitive karate.) [1987, Morten Jørgensen, Sennepslegionen, page 94:]
Nouns inflected like karate
overtakelse,
modelljernbane,
seanse,
overtagelse,
snegle,
satire,
sminkebørste,
salvie,
sjanse,
smerte,
slange,
sonate,
single,
skygge,
skotte,
skjede,
skalle,
bekreftelse,
fenaknoke,
sommerferie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from English karate, from Japanese 空手 (karate, “empty hand”). The modern Japanese spelling is analyzable as 空 (kara, “empty”) + 手 (te, “hand”). It replaced the earlier 唐手 (karate, “Chinese hand”), an orthographic borrowing from Okinawan 唐手 (tōdī, “Chinese hand”). During the early twentieth century, the first character was changed from 唐 (kara, “Tang dynasty; China”) to the homophonous 空 (kara, “empty”), while the pronunciation remained unchanged.
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk karate, Danish karate, Swedish karate, Icelandic karate, German Karate, French karaté and Finnish karate (“karate”). See: English Nouns '
karate', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
karate', Danish Nouns '
karate', Swedish Nouns '
karate', Icelandic Nouns '
karate', German Nouns '
Karate', French Nouns '
karaté', Finnish Nouns '
karate'.
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