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Katara may refer to: * Katara (dagger), a type of dagger from the Indian subcontinent * Katara (''Avatar: The Last Airbender''), a character in the television series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' * Katara (cultural village), in Qatar * Katara Pass, a mountain pass in northern Greece * Katara (spice), a Venezuelan Amazon spicy sauce made from chilli pepper and Bachacho - Atta laevigata poison * Katra (Dhaka), residential palace built during Mughal period in Dhaka See also *Katarina (other) Katarina may refer to: Geography *Katarina-Sofia borough, a borough in central Stockholm *Topol pri Medvodah, a settlement in the Municipality of Medvode, Slovenia, known as Katarina People *Katarina (given name) * Katarina (''Doctor Who''), a ch ...

Katara (dagger)
The katar is a type of push dagger from the Indian subcontinent. The weapon is characterized by its H-shaped horizontal hand grip which results in the blade sitting above the user's knuckles. Unique to the Indian subcontinent, it is the most famous and characteristic of Indian daggers. Ceremonial katars were also used in worship. Etymology Having originated in South India, the weapon's earliest name-form was likely the Tamil (). It is alternatively known in Tamil as () which means "stabbing blade". This was adapted into Sanskrit as () or . Due to the schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages however, the word often came to be rendered as "katar" in modern Hindi and by extension in colonial transliterations. Other regional names for the weapon include () in Kannada, () in Telugu, () in Malayalam, () in Marathi, , () in Panjabi, and () or in Hindi. History The katar was created in Southern India, its earliest forms being closely associated with the 14th-century Vijayanaga ...
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''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ...
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