Karachi

English

Etymology

From Urdu کراچی (karācī) and Sindhi ڪراچي (karācī), from earlier کولاچی (kolācī), named after Mai Kolachi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈrɑːt͡ʃi/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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Proper noun

Karachi

2. The largest city in Pakistan, situated along the Arabian Sea, also the provincial capital of Sindh, Pakistan.
   • 2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 208:

     Karachi, colourful buses, colourless buildings, graffitied walls, billboards advertising mobile phones and soft drinks and ice cream, birds circling in the white-hot sky.

Derived terms

• Karachiite

Translations

the capital of the province of Sindh, Pakistan

• Arabic: كَرَاتْشِي f (karātšī)
• Basque: Karatxi
• Bengali: করাচী (kôracī)
• Bulgarian: Кара́чи m (Karáči)
• Catalan: Karachi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡拉奇 (zh) (Kǎlāqí)

• Czech: Karáčí (cs) n
• Danish: Karachi
• Dutch: Karachi
• Esperanto: Karaĉio
• Finnish: Karachi
• French: Karachi (fr) m
• Georgian: კარაჩი (ḳarači)
• German: Karatschi (de) n
• Hindi: कराची m (karācī)
• Hungarian: Karacsi (hu)
• Italian: Karachi
• Japanese: カラチ (Karachi)
• Korean: 카라치 (Karachi)
• Latvian: Karāči
• Lithuanian: Karačis
• Marathi: कराची (karācī)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کَراچی (fa) (karâči)

• Polish: Karaczi (pl) n
• Portuguese: Karachi f, Carachi f
• Punjabi: ਕਰਾਚੀ (karācī)
• Rohingya: Karaci, Keraci
• Russian: Кара́чи (ru) m (Karáči)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Карачи m

  Roman: Karači (sh) m

• Sindhi: ڪراچي (sd) (karācī)
• Slovak: Karáči m
• Spanish: Karachi (es)
• Tagalog: Karachi
• Telugu: కరాచీ (karācī)
• Thai: การาจี (kā rā cī)
• Turkish: Karaçi
• Urdu: کَراچی m (karācī), کَرانْچی m (karāncī)
• Uyghur: كاراچى (karachi)
• Western Panjabi: کراچی

See also

• Hyderabad
• Sukkur
• Larkano
• Thatto
• Shikarpur

Anagrams

• chikara

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈɾa.t͡ʃi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈɾa.t͡ʃi]

Proper noun

Karachi ?

1. Karachi (a city, the capital of the province of Sindh, Pakistan)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Karachi f

1. Alternative spelling of Carachi

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾat͡ʃi/ [kaˈɾa.t͡ʃi]
• Rhymes: -atʃi
• Syllabification: Ka‧ra‧chi

Proper noun

Karachi ?

1. Karachi (the capital of Sindh, Pakistan)