قاری

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (karı, “old person”), from Proto-Turkic *kạrï.

قاری • (karı)

1. wife
2. woman

• چاغرغان قاری‎ (çağırgan karı, “scold, shrew”, literally “vociferous wife”)
• قاری بازلری‎ (karı bazları)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “karı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قاری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1413

From Arabic قَارِئ‎ (qāriʔ), active participle of قَرَأَ‎ (qaraʔa, “to read”).

قاری • (kari)

1. reader
2. a professional Qur'an reader

• Turkish: kari

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “kari'”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 589
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kari”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قاری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1413

From Arabic قَارِئ‎ (qāriʔ, “reader”).

قاری • (qâri)

1. reader/reciter of Quran

Borrowed from Persian قاری‎ (qâri), from Arabic قَارِئ‎ (qāriʔ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɑː.ɾiː/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /xɑː.ɾiː/

قاری • (qārī) m (Hindi spelling क़ारी)

1. (Islam) Qari, one who recites the Quran

قاری • (qārī) (Hindi spelling क़ारी)

1. reader

• “قاری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قاری”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.