Kars

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of kar form-of, plural
  2. 2
    plural of KAR form-of, plural
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A province in northeastern Turkey.
  2. 2
    A district of Kars Province, Turkey.
  3. 3
    A municipality, the capital of Kars district and Kars Province, Turkey, historically Armenian.
  4. 4
    A civil parish and community in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
  5. 5
    A village in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Example

More examples

"We slept in train on the way to the Kars."

Etymology

From Turkish Kars, Ottoman Turkish قارص (Kars), and Armenian Կարս (Kars). As a New Brunswick parish, named for the 1855 Siege of Kars in the Crimean War.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.