Meanings
nounkarate (uncountable)
- uncountableAn 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
verbkarate (third-person singular simple present karates, present participle karateing, simple past and past participle karated)
present singular third person karates · participle present karateing · participle past karated · past karated
- informaltransitiveTo attack (somebody or something) with karate or similar techniques.
Origin
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”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans karate
- karatemartial art
Arabic كَارَاتِيه
- كَارَاتِيه (karātīh)martial art
Bengali কারাতে
- কারাতে (karate)martial art
Chinese Mandarin 空手, 空手道
- 空手 (kōngshǒu)martial art
- 空手道 (kōngshǒudào)martial art
Czech karate
- karatemartial art
Danish karate
- karatemartial art
Esperanto karateo
- karateomartial art
Finnish karate
- karatemartial art
French karaté
- karatémartial art
German Karate
- Karatemartial art
Greek καράτε
- καράτε (karáte)martial art
Hebrew קראטה
- קראטה (kárate)martial art
Hindi कराटे
- कराटे (karāṭe)martial art
Icelandic karate
- karatemartial art
Indonesian karate
- karatemartial art
Japanese 空手, 空手道
- 空手 (karate)martial art
- 空手道 (karatedō)martial art
Korean 카라테, 가라데
- 카라테 (karate)martial art
- 가라데 (garade)martial art
- 공수도 (gongsudo)martial art
Latvian karatē
- karatēmartial art
Lithuanian karatė̃
- karatė̃martial art
Malay karate
- karatemartial art
Māori karāti
- karātimartial art
Norwegian Bokmål karate
- karatemartial art
Persian کاراته
- کاراته (kârâte)martial art
Polish karate
- karatemartial art
Portuguese caratê, karaté
- caratêmartial art
- karatémartial art
- caratémartial art
Romanian karate, carate
- karatemartial art
- caratemartial art
Russian карате́, каратэ́
- карате́ (karatɛ́)martial art
- каратэ́ (karatɛ́)martial art
Spanish karate
- karatemartial art
Swahili karate
- karatemartial art
Swedish karate
- karatemartial art
Tagalog karate
- karatemartial art
Tamil கராத்தே
- கராத்தே (karāttē)martial art
Thai คาราเต้
- คาราเต้ (kaa-raa-dtêe)martial art
Turkish karate
- karatemartial art
Ukrainian карате́
- карате́ (karaté)martial art
Urdu کراٹے
- کراٹے (karāṭē)martial art
Vietnamese không thủ đạo, karate
- không thủ đạomartial art
- karatemartial art
Yiddish קאַראַטע
- קאַראַטע (karate)martial art
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
APA
karate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/karate
MLA
“karate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/karate. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “karate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/karate.
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