Associations to the word «Karen»

Wiktionary

KAREN, proper noun. A female given name. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
KAREN, proper noun. A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.
KAREN, proper noun. A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Կարեն.

Dictionary definition

KAREN, noun. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.

Wise words

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