English Explanatory Dictionary

Caras

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Caras Carases

Etymology

* As a Greek surname, variant of Karas. Compare also Carras. * Also as a Greek surname, from the personal name Kyriakos, see also Kyriacou. * As a Romanian surname, from caras (“crucian carp”), see Karas. * As a Jewish surname of Slavic (Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene), variant of Karas. * As a Polish (Karaś), Hungarian (Kárász) and Jewish surname, from the "carp" sense above.

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