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  • Emma has been selling shoes, locally dyed cloths (known as gara lappers) and soft drinks for eight years now.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • She has spent the past 12 years in the 'gara' (locally dyed cloth) business.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • A common reply by Zimbabwean housewives to queries on their daily chores is "Ndaka gara pamba" ( "I'm just sitting at home" in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • A gorgeous day for FOSH, VWB, Animal Lifeline gara ...

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  • A gorgeous day for FOSH, VWB, Animal Lifeline gara ...

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  • Also, looks like a Turkman ak öý or gara öý – the Central Asian version of the ger – to me.

    Art in the Mail 2009

  • Also, looks like a Turkman ak öý or gara öý – the Central Asian version of the ger – to me.

    One for the Russophiles 2009

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  • I gatti miagolano di notte per vincere la gara a chi sveglia più gente.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Furball 2008

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  • a girl with black hair and black eyes, and I mean BLACK--not brunette. the word has some connection to the Hindi 'kaare' meaning "black" or "kohl-rimmed". I like this world because it fills in the incomplete English paradigm. "Gara" is the true opposite of a blonde.

    April 28, 2009

  • Doesn't kara mean black in Turkish? (The Serbian nationalist leader who led the first Serbian revolt against the Turks and founded modern Serbia's royal dynasty was called "Karadjordje" – "Black George".) Perhaps that is the origin of the word. I don't think it's Slavic.

    April 28, 2009

  • oh DUH. my Turkish is so rotten.

    April 28, 2009

  • I expect the Hindi word you mention has the same Turkic origins, via the Moguls.

    April 28, 2009

  • Excellent. It's always bothered me that brunette is applied to anyone whose hair isn't blond(e) or red - and that there's no male equivalent (brunet??)

    April 29, 2009

  • the Moguls spoke Urdu and Persian, not a Turkic language. I contend that the Hindi vocab went in line from Arabic to Urdu-Farsi to Hindi, and there's a parallel line from Arabic to Turkish to Bosnian.

    and yarb--it seems that masculine hair-colour nouns are atrophying altogether; one never hears a man called a blond or redhead nowadays, as if having hair colour were suddenly a feminine property!

    April 29, 2009