Karai may refer to:

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Karai, Iran Karai () is a village in Balyan Rural District, in the Central District (Kazerun County), Central District of Kazerun County, Fars province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 174, in 31 families. References

Populated places ...

, * Karai, Perak, Malaysia * Karai, Sultanpur, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India

Demonym

Qarai Turks The Karai, Qarai or Qara Tatars ( Black Tatars) are a Turkic tribe found in Khorasan, Azerbaijan, Kerman, and Fars. Etymology According to Encyclopedia Iranica, the Qara'i or Qara Tatars are "a Turkic-speaking tribe of Azerbaijan, Khorasan, ...

(''Karāʾi, Qarāʾi'') or "Black Tatars" *Karai, caste subdivision among Mallar (caste), Urali Gounder caste, in India *Karai, landlord class among the

Guaraní people The Guarani are a group of culturally-related Indigenous peoples of South America. They are distinguished from the related Tupi people, Tupi by their use of the Guarani language. The traditional range of the Guarani people is in what is now Paragu ...

*Karai, extinct Turkic language written in Hebrew script of

Crimean Karaites Crimean Karaites or simply Karaites (Crimean Karaim language, Karaim: Кърымкъарайлар, ''Qrımqaraylar'', singular къарай, ''qaray''; Trakai dialect: ''karajlar'', singular ''karaj''; ; ; ), also known more broadly as Eastern E ...

Surname

* József Karai, Hungarian composer * Karai Senryū ( :ja:柄井川柳; 1718–1790), Japanese poet, originator of

Senryū is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 (or , often translated as syllables, but see the article on for distinctions). tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and a ...

form

Cuisine

*Karai, also spelled

Karahi A ''karahi'' is a type of thick, circular, and deep cooking pot, similar in shape to a wok, from Northern South Asia. It is used in Indian cuisine, North Indian, Pakistani cuisine, Pakistani, Afghanistan cuisine, Afghan, Nepalese cuisine, Nepale ...

, Indian cooking pot *Karai, braised in

Indian cuisine Indian cuisine consists of a variety of regional and traditional cuisines native to the Indian subcontinent. Given the diversity in soil, climate, culture, ethnic groups, and occupations, these cuisines vary substantially and use locally av ...

*Karai, spicy in

Japanese cuisine Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan, which have developed through centuries of political, economic, and social changes. The traditional cuisine of Japan (Japanese language, Japanese: ) is based on rice with m ...

Fictional characters

* Karai, a major supporting character in the ''

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (''TMNT'') is an American media franchise created by comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Leonardo, Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), D ...

'' franchise, in which she is the on-and-off love interest and rival of the

katana A is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Developed later than the ''tachi'', it was used by samurai in feudal Japan and worn with the edge fa ...

-wielding Ninja Turtle leader Leonardo *Karai, name of Count

Nikolai Rostov Count Nikolai Ilyich Rostov () is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel ''War and Peace''. Count Nikolai is the brother of Vera Rostova, Natasha Rostova and Petya Rostov. At the start of the novel, Nikolai is aged 20 and a university student ...

's dog in some translations of Tolstoy's ''War and Peace''

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