Kar or KAR may refer to: * .kar, a file format for

karaoke is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in nightclubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone. Its musical content is an instrumental rendition of a well-known popular song. I ...

files *

Kar, Iran Qar (, also Romanized as Qār; also known as Kār and Qāv) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Sanandaj County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 805, in 190 families. The village is ...

, in Kurdistan Province * ''Kar'' (beetle), a genus of beetles *

Car (Greek myth) Car or Kar () is a name in Greek mythology that refers to two characters who may or may not be one and the same. * Car, king of Megara and son of Phoroneus by Cerdo. His tomb was located on the road from Megara to Corinth. From Car, the acropolis ...

* ''Kar'' (novel), 2002, by Orhan Pamuk *

Kar (political group) The Kar or Gruh-i Kar (, "Worker's Group") was a faction of the communist PDPA party in Afghanistan. At one point, Kar was one of four PDPA factions, along with the Parcham, Khalqi, and Setam-e Milli. The group was headed by Dastagir Panjsheri ...

, a former faction in Afghanistan *

Kar (Turkish music) The ''kar'' is a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music. It was a movement of the ''fasıl The ''fasıl'' is a suite in Ottoman classical music. It is similar to the Arabic '' nawba'' and '' waslah''. A classical ''fasıl'' generally includes ...

, a genre in Ottoman classical music *

Kar (suffix) Kar ( , ) is a suffix used after the names of villages along the western coast of India, forming the most common surnames used by the Marathi and Konkani people in Maharashtra, Goa and some parts of Karnataka. Etymology The suffix ''Kar'' comes ...

, surname suffix in India *

Kainic acid receptor Kainate receptors, or kainic acid receptors (KARs), are ionotropic receptors that respond to the neurotransmitter glutamate. They were first identified as a distinct receptor type through their selective activation by the agonist kainate, a dru ...

, ion channels that respond to neurotransmitters *

Karair Karair was an airline from Finland. Initially having offered scheduled passenger flights, the company became a subsidiary of Finnair, mainly operating on holiday charter routes. History Originally called Karhumäki Airways, the company was fo ...

, a Finnish airline, by ICAO code *

Killer activation receptor Killer Activation Receptors (KARs) are receptors expressed on the plasma membrane (cell membrane) of Natural Killer cells (NK cells). KARs work together with Killer Inhibitory Receptors (abbreviated as KIRs in the text), which inactivate KARs in o ...

King's African Rifles The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces regiment raised from Britain's East African colonies in 1902. It primarily carried out internal security duties within these colonies along with military service elsewher ...

, British regiment, 1902-1960s *

Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts, often abbreviated as KAR, is a two-volume German publication by the Assyriologist from 1919 to 1923. The work offers a critical edition of several hundred cuneiform tablets discovered during 1903–19 ...

, the title of a two-volume German work often abbreviated as KAR * ISO 639-5 code for

Karenic languages The Karen () or Karenic languages are tonal languages spoken by some 4.5 million Karen people. They are of unclear affiliation within the Sino-Tibetan languages. The Karen languages are written using the Karen script. The three main branches a ...

* Kar Nataka or

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

, a state in southern India *

Kirby Air Ride ''Kirby Air Ride'' is a 2003 Racing game, racing video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. A spin-off of the Kirby (series), ''Kirby'' series, the player controls Kirby (character), Kirby or his multicolo ...

, a Nintendo GameCube game from 2003

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