# Kars

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #66,772

## Definitions
1. A province in northeastern Turkey.
2. A district of Kars Province, Turkey.
3. A municipality, the capital of Kars district and Kars Province, Turkey, historically Armenian.
4. A civil parish and community in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
5. A village in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

## Etymology
From Turkish Kars, Ottoman Turkish قارص (Kars), and Armenian Կարս (Kars). As a New Brunswick parish, named for the 1855 Siege of Kars in the Crimean War.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kars