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karez

noun

karez is a noun meaning “A qanat, in parts of central southern Asia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-R-E-Z, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of karez is karezes.

What does karez mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A qanat, in parts of central southern Asia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of karez

  • karezes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is karez?

Karez appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does karez come from?

Borrowed from Persian کاریز (kârêz).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).