KARA

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 17

A Tartar word, signifying black, used in many of the Eastern languages as a prefix to geographical names; as Karamania, the country of the black people. It has also been employed in the same capacity to signify "tributary;" as kara ka! packs, tributary ka'packs. KARMATHIANS, or [s. 643]