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Karachi
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English
Etymology
en :bor ur:کراچی<tr:karācī> sd:ڪراچي<tr:karācī> 1
en ur کراچی karācī and en sd ڪراچي karācī / sd कराची, from earlier sd ڪولاچي kolācī / sd कोलाची, named after Mai Kolachi.
Pronunciation
en /kəˈrɑːt͡ʃi/
en Karachi pronunciation.ogg Pakistan
Proper noun
en Q8660 en largest city c/Pakistan ;; situated along the Arabian Sea ;, as well as the provincial capital p:Suf/Sindh.
en 2017-04-06 Samira Shackle On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/06/on-the-frontline-with-karachis-ambulance-drivers Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. https://web.archive.org/web/20261013071121/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/06/on-the-frontline-with-karachis-ambulance-drivers 13 October 2026
en 2017 Kamila Shamsie Home Fire Bloomsbury (2018) 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
en Karachiite
Translations
the capital of the province of Sindh, Pakistan
Arabic: ar كَرَاتْشِي f
Basque: eu Karatxi
Bengali: bn করাচী kôracī
Bulgarian: bg Кара́чи m
Catalan: ca Karachi
Cherokee: chr ᎧᎳᏥ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 卡拉奇 Kǎlāqí
Czech: cs Karáčí n
Danish: da Karachi
Dutch: nl Karachi
Esperanto: eo Karaĉio
Finnish: fi Karachi
French: fr Karachi m
Georgian: ka კარაჩი
German: de Karatschi n
Hindi: hi कराची m, hi काराँची m, hi कारांची m
Hungarian: hu Karacsi
Italian: it Karachi
Japanese: ja カラチ Karachi
Korean: ko ^카라치
Latvian: lv Karāči
Lithuanian: lt Karačis
Marathi: mr कराची
Nepali: ne कराँची
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira کَراچی
Polish: pl Karaczi n
Portuguese: pt Karachi f, pt Carachi f
Punjabi: pa ਕਰਾਚੀ
Western Punjabi: pnb کراچی
Rohingya: rhg Karaci, rhg Keraci
Russian: ru Кара́чи m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Карачи m
Latin: sh Karači m
Sindhi: sd ڪراچي karācī
Slovak: sk Karáči m
Spanish: es Karachi
Tagalog: tl Karachi
Tajik: tg Карочӣ
Telugu: te కరాచీ
Thai: th การาจี kā rā cī
Turkish: tr Karaçi
Urdu: ur کَراچی m, ur کَرانْچی m
Uyghur: ug كاراچى
See also
en Hyderabad
en Sukkur
en Larkano
en Thatto
en Shikarpur
Anagrams
en aachikr chikara
Catalan
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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ca city/capital of the province of p/Sindh c/Pakistan Karachi
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
pt Carachi
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
es capital p/Sindh c/Pakistan Karachi