karakter
Turkish
[kʰaɾækte̞ɾ̝̊]
noun
Definitions
- character, a symbol such as a letter of an alphabet
- a person's psychological characteristics, character
- a person in a novel or story
Etymology
Borrowed from French caractère (personality, character) derived from Latin character (branding iron) derived from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (nature, character, type, engraver).
Origin
Ancient Greek
χαρακτήρ
Gloss
nature, character, type, engraver
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
字
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- caract English
- character English
- caracter Latin
- character Latin
- charactērem Latin
- karakter Hungarian
- caractère French
- caractériel French
- caractérologie French
- carácter Spanish, Castilian
- χαράσσω Ancient Greek
- χαρακτήρ Ancient Greek
- karakter Norwegian Bokmål
- caractere Portuguese
- caráter Portuguese
- charakter Polish
- karakter Norwegian Nynorsk
- carachtar Irish
- karakter Danish
- caractere Old French
- garser Old French
- ĥaraktero Esperanto
- caràcter Catalan, Valencian
- caracter Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- caracter Middle Dutch
- caractar Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- karacter Middle High German
- карактер Macedonian
- carátura Old Spanish