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Definition: Karachi |
KarachiNoun1. The largest city in Pakistan; located in southeastern Pakistan; an industrial center and seaport on the Arabian Sea; former capital of Pakistan. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Karachi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Crosswords: Karachi |
| Non-English Usage: "Karachi" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (Karachi). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The founder of Pakistan, Muhammed Ali Jinnah was born and buried in Karachi.
Grew from an 18th century village called Mai Kalachi-jo-Kun. Mai in Sindhi (which is the local/provincial language) means Lady, while Kun means village. Thus, the name refers to the Lady Kalachi's Village.
Karachi International Airport is Pakistan's largest aviation facility
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Karachi."
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Movie/TV Titles | The Man from Karachi (1958) Karachi (1989) | |
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 | Native sail boats between Bombay and Karachi on Gulf of Kutch. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | On board the steamer Kola between Bombay and Karachi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Crewmen on deck of Kola between Bombay and Karachi. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Karachi - Pangborn standing with 2 women and small girl on horse in front of home of English Consul Curry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Luby S, Faizan M, Fisher-Hoch S, et al. Risk factors for infection with Salmonella Typhi in an endemic setting, Karachi, Pakistan. (references) | |
Business | Construction of two intensive care units at Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, Karachi. (references) | |
KESC is responsible to supply power to Karachi, its suburbs and adjoining parts in Baluchistan. (references) | ||
Replacement of existing unserviceable stretcher lift at National Institute of Child Health (NICH), Karachi. (references) | ||
Children | Pakistan | Even in relatively prosperous Karachi, enrollment figures are low. (references) |
Pakistan | Public health professors at a Karachi medical school report that vaccines frequently are degraded by poor storage, and that vaccination rates are inflated. (references) | |
Pakistan | In September 2000, an antiterrorist court in Karachi convicted five men for kidnaping the 15-year-old son of a businessman in January 2000; three of the five defendants were sentenced to death. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | On August 22, the police raided more than 50 offices, mosques, and madrassahs in Karachi in connection with the ban. (references) |
Pakistan | Hundreds of party workers affiliated with the Alliance to Restore Democracy were arrested in Karachi in an attempt to prevent a political rally on May 1. Most were released after several days of detention. (references) | |
Pakistan | The killing may have been ordered to avenge the killing of Agha Sultani, an Iranian Shi'a teacher who was killed in Karachi by unknown assailants on January 20. Sectarian rioting in Hangu, a small city in the NWFP on March 1 resulted in at least 10 deaths. (references) | |
Economic History | Pakistan | It is located near Port Bin Qasim, 25 Kilometers East of Karachi. (references) |
Pakistan | During FY00-01, Karachi Port handled over 18 million tons of cargo. (references) | |
Pakistan | Karachi is the main port, handling the majority of all dry and liquid cargo. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | An August 2000 news report listed seven such stations in Karachi. (references) |
Pakistan | In May 2000, armed gunmen seized Amin Lakhani, a leading Karachi businessman. (references) | |
Pakistan | During the year, 1,888 Karachi police officers reportedly were punished for various offenses. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Qadri and others had been on their way to Friday prayers in Karachi. (references) |
Pakistan | Local commentators believe the killing to be the work of Sipah-e-Mohammad, a Shi'a Muslim extremist group, and say it may have been ordered to avenge the killing of Agha Sultani, an Iranian Shi'a teacher who was killed in Karachi by unknown assailants on January 20. Following the killing of Inayatullah and three other clerics, a combination of police, paramilitary, and military forces were dispatched in an attempt to control a mob of Sunni Muslim students that reacted to the killing by setting several vehicles and businesses on fire. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | The Supreme Court is the highest court in the country; High Courts in the provincial capitals of Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, and Quetta stand at the head of the provincial judicial systems. (references) |
Political Rights | Pakistan | The 9.26 million census figure for Karachi, revised to 9.8 million in a February 2000 report, is estimated to be 3 to 5 million short of the actual figure. (references) |
Travel | Pakistan | U.S. Consulate Karachi, 8 Abdullah Haroon Road, Karachi. (references) |
Pakistan | With the exception of Karachi, taxi fares have to be negotiated. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | In Karachi only 28 percent of girls completing matriculation (10th grade) exams in science during the year would be able to find places in government-run colleges, as opposed to 83 percent of boys passing the same tests. (references) |
Pakistan | In February 2000, Dr. Sher Shah Syed, of the Pakistan National Forum on Women's Health in Karachi, reported that the maternal mortality rate is 600 per 100,000 pregnancies; this figure contradicts the Government's figure of 300 per 100,000 pregnancies. (references) | |
Pakistan | The Shirkat Gah Women's Resource Center in Karachi published a report in 1999 that summarized reports in the English language press about violence against women between 1993 and 1998. Even though it limited itself to reports of violence by close male relatives, Shirkat Gah documented 535 women who were killed or who committed suicide during the period; 95 of these women were killed or committed suicide after they expressed interest in marrying a man of their own choice. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Pakistan | There is only one EPZ, in Karachi, with nearly 6,000 employees, according to government sources. (references) |
Pakistan | Some women sold in shops in Karachi reportedly are sent to Persian Gulf countries, where they are slaves; women sent to rural Pakistan reportedly are de facto slaves. (references) | |
Pakistan | Children at the Karachi Central Jail, who were imprisoned for crimes they committed, were detained with their parents, or were born in jail, reportedly are involved in woodcrafts and television repairs. (references) | |
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Mariane Pearl | So the next day when he evidently had been kidnapped, we had all police coming into our place. Danny and I were visiting a friend Astra in Karachi. And so all the police came. So they were from all different agencies, intelligence agencies. |
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| "Karachi" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Karachi" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 105 | 31,781 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Pakistan | Karachi Electric Supply Corp Ltd |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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Ending with "Karachi": Kisumu-cairo-karachi. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Karachi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Karaçi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Карачи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卡拉奇 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Přístavní Mìsto V Indii. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | カラー写真 (ballads sung by Karashima Midori, calif, California, California roll, calligraphy, carat, caricature, caricaturize, caries, cauliflower, charisma, charismatic, color photo, colorful, column, curriculum, Kaliglas, karaoke, karat, potash glass, potassium, water outlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カラチ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arachikay Mar De Kara. (various references) Карачи. (various references) karači. (various references) Karachi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Karachi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akarcali, Arashi, Barzaghi, Cabrach, Caracci, Darrach, Gracchi, Kabrikha, karachii, Karasjok, Karpathi, Kazanchi, Keracil, Kericho, Kirche, Kirkahm, Krachai, Kracht, Krafchik, Paraschiv, Saachi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: chakra, charka. | |
-2 letters: acari, chair, chark, chirk, haika. | |
-3 letters: arak, arch, aria, cark, char, chia, haar, hack, haik, hair, hark, hick, rack, raia, raki, rich, rick. | |
-4 letters: aah, aha, air, arc, ark, car, chi, hic, ich, ick, irk, khi, kir, rah, ria. | |
-5 letters: aa, ah, ai, ar, ha, hi, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-k-r" | |
+4 letters: apparatchik. | |
+5 letters: apparatchiki, apparatchiks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 61 72 61 63 68 69 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .- .-. .- -.-. .... .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01100001 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K a r a c h i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0061 0072 0061 0063 0068 0069 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)45678467697475 |
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