Karai may refer to:

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Karai, Perak Karai is a small town in Mukim Kota Lama Kanan, Kuala Kangsar District, Perak, Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia ...

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

Demonym

Qarai Turks The Karai or Qarai Turks are a Turkic minority mostly found in Khorasan and Iran especially Torbat-e Heydarieh. At the start of the Qajar dynasty, Qarai Turks were also scattered even beyond southern Khorasan through the desert zone of Sistan. ...

(''Karāʾi, Qarāʾi'') or "Black Tatars" *Karai, caste subdivision among Mallar (caste),

Urali Gounder Urali Gounder is a caste in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state ...

caste, in India *Karai, landlord class among the

Guaraní people 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 present-day Paraguay b ...

*Karai, extinct Turkic language written in Hebrew script of

Crimean Karaites The Crimean Karaites or Krymkaraylar (Crimean Karaim: Кърымкъарайлар, ''Qrımqaraylar'', singular къарай, ''qaray''; Trakai dialect: ''karajlar'', singular ''karaj''; he, קראי מזרח אירופה; crh, Qaraylar; ), a ...

Surname

* József Karai, Hungarian composer *

Karai Senryū , whose real name is Karai Hachiemon () was a Japanese poet and poetry judge (''tenja''). He popularized a form of haiku called senryū, which is named after him. "Senryū" was the nickname that he adopted when he started judging poetry, and othe ...

( :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'' (; as, কেৰাহী, kerahi, bn, কড়া, koṛā, hi, कड़ाही, kaṛāhī, Marathi: कढई, ur, ; also ''kadai, kerahi, karai, kadhi, kadahi, kadhai'' ''sarai'', or ''cheena chatti'') is a type of thi ...

, Indian cooking pot *Karai, braised in

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

*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: ) is based on rice with miso soup and other ...

Fictional characters

* Karai, a major supporting character in the ''

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'' 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 Leonardo is a masculine given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese equivalent of the English, German, and Dutch name, Leonard Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate ...

*Karai, name of Count

Nikolai Rostov Count Nikolai Ilyich Rostov (russian: Николай Ильич Ростов, ''Nikolaj Il'ič 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 Rosto ...

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

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