carat

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Etymology

From Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat, similarly small units such as inches”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “hornlet, carob seed”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). Doublet of quilate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.ɹət/
• (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
• Homophones: karat, carrot; caret (weak vowel merger)
• Rhymes: -æɹət

Noun

carat (plural carats)

1. A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.

   Meronym: grain

2. (historical) Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.
3. A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.

   Alternative form: (North America) karat

   18-carat gold is 75% gold by mass. 24-carat gold is pure.

Hyponyms

• metric carat (SI unit equal to 0.2 g exactly), quilate (historical Iberian and Latin American contexts)

Derived terms

• caratage
• carater
• metric carat
• multicarat

Translations

mass

Arabic: قِيرَاط m (qīrāṭ) Hijazi Arabic: قِيراط m (gīrāṭ) Bulgarian: карат (bg) m (karat) Catalan: quirat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 克拉 (zh) (kèlā) Czech: karát (cs) m Dutch: karaat (nl) n Esperanto: karato Finnish: karaatti (fi) French: carat (fr) m Galician: quilate m German: Karat (de) n Greek: καράτι (el) n (karáti) Hebrew: קראט m (qarat') Hungarian: karát (hu) Indonesian: karat (id) Italian: carato (it) m Japanese: カラット (ja) (karatto) Khmer: ការាត់ (km) (kaarat) Korean: 캐럿 (kaereot) Maltese: karat Persian: قیراط (fa) (qirât) Polish: karat (pl) m Portuguese: quilate (pt) m Russian: кара́т (ru) m (karát) Sicilian: caratu (scn) m Slovak: karát m Spanish: quilate (es) m Swahili: karati Swedish: karat (sv) c Thai: กะรัต (th) (gà-ràt)

measure of the purity of gold

Arabic: قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ) Egyptian Arabic: قيراط (ʔerāṭ) Armenian: կարատ (hy) (karat) Belarusian: кара́т m (karát) Bulgarian: карат (bg) m (karat) Burmese: ကရက် (my) (ka.rak) Catalan: quirat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 克拉 (zh) (kèlā) Czech: karát (cs) m Dutch: karaat (nl) n Esperanto: karato Finnish: karaatti (fi) French: carat (fr) m Galician: quilate m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Karat (de) n Greek: καράτι (el) n (karáti) Hebrew: קראט m (qarat') Hungarian: karát (hu) Indonesian: karat (id) Italian: carato (it) m Japanese: カラット (ja) (karatto) Khmer: ការ៉ាត់ (kaarat) Korean: 캐럿 (kaereot) Kyrgyz: карат (ky) m (karat) Macedonian: ка́рат m (kárat) Maltese: karat Polish: karat (pl) m Portuguese: quilate (pt) m Russian: кара́т (ru) m (karát) Sicilian: caratu (scn) m Slovak: karát m Spanish: quilate (es) m Swedish: karat (sv) c Tagalog: kilatis (tl) Thai: กะรัต (th) Ukrainian: кара́т m (karát) Vietnamese: ca ra, cà rá (vi), cara

Anagrams

• ATRAC, Carta

French

Noun

carat m (plural carats)

1. carat

Further reading

• “carat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.